Russia-America Exchange #7
Sat June 7, 2025
⏰ 12 PM ET | 11 AM CT | 10 AM MT | 9 AM PT
✨ Event page: https://anastasia.foundation/rae7
Zoom: https://anastasia.foundation/rae7zoom
Series
A bilingual forum where Russian Kin’s Domain residents present their lived experience to English-speaking readers and field direct questions from the audience.
Speakers
️ Maria Makshieva – filmmaker, resident since age 13, documents Siberian settlements.
️ Yulia Lisunova – Imbiren resident; economics degree, herbal-medicine and homestead skills.
Imbiren Settlement (Omsk Oblast)
• Founded: 2002 by readers inspired by Ringing Cedars.
• Area: 90 ha; 56 one-hectare family domains laid out mainly as hexagons.
• Families: ≈ 50 residents; half live year-round.
• Shared spaces: pond, community workshop, gardens, circle-dance meadow; grid power and winter-plowed road.
Session focus
First-person accounts of growing up on a Kin’s Domain, documentary film excerpts, and practical discussion of infrastructure, culture, and daily life in a 23-year-old Siberian settlement.
✨ Event page: https://anastasia.foundation/rae7
Zoom: https://anastasia.foundation/rae7zoom
