В столицу Черногории — Подгорицу я приехал в начале апреля 2022 года поездом из Белграда(отчёт по Сербии у меня пока только в черновиках на английском). В приморской части страны русскую и украинскую речь на улицах я слышал чаще чем где-либо ранее. Машины с украинскими и российскими номерами также были заметны…

20 апреля 2022 г. По данным “Бумаги” уже месяц назад из Российской Федерации только в Армению, Грузию и Турцию прибыло более 50 тыс её граждан. А по оценке исследования Ok Russians общее количество покинувших РФ — 300 тыс. человек. Вопрос о том, что делать если понадобилась врачебная помощь или просто…

The first review on the back-to-the-land movement in Serbia I’ve found in a EuroNews publication by Helen Elfer ‘What’s it like to live as a family in an eco-village in Serbia?’. The author quotes Marija Babić, whose family is in the process of moving from Belgrade to a community on…

Existing Cases in Russia and Possible Projects for the Western World Foreword This essay I stored in my drafts until I’ve watched ‘A Gathering of the Tribe’ — a short film by Charles Eisenstein with Jon Hopkins & Aubrey Marcus. Aubrey Marcus, who produced it, wrote: My tears always come…

Here is a brief overview of three island-based intentional communities in ‘extended Scandinavia’: Karelia (Russian Federation), Sweden, and Finland. Ostrov Ostrov (in Russian it means ‘island’) project is at the beginning of its journey — now it is 4 years old. ‘Islanders’ settle down inside the Ladoga Skerries National Park, on…

This report was initially published in the GEN Europe Circular on Resilience & Regeneration in December 2020.

At the traing about EU Program ‘European Solidarity Coprs’ volunteership projects for ecovillages (a brief report is here) that had been taking place it Ängsbacka course and festival center in Sweden

Since 2015 I study the ‘back-to-the-land’ movement and live/work in a such environment. The English summary of my research is ‘Eco-villages, Kin Domains and New Farmers in Russia. 25 Years of the Modern ‘Back to the Land’ Movement in Russia’. In Russian it was published in Global Ecovillage Network Russia Newsletter 2018. Since 2019 I’ve expanded research focus on Scandinavia. This study is supported by my funds partially by crowd-funding.

The first version of this text was published in the GEN Russia Newsletter in 2019 (GEN Russia is the ‘Russian Ecovillages & Initiatives Union‘). The version below is updated and expanded (January 2020). See also this text’s version in Russian. …