Alla Rykhlitskaya, head of the department of choreography at Kherson University, Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine, dancer. Currently teaching choreography online from Prague. After the occupation of Kherson by the Russian army, she followed her daughter to the Czech Republic.

Anastasia Steinert is a journalist from St. Petersburg. Lives in New York since February 2022, works at the Museum of Russian History. She talks about moving to the USA, studying at an American university and the peculiarities of life in the most expensive city in the world. Anastasia writes about the situation in the Russian Federation for American media and gives lectures on Russian history.