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Marina:
The city is much dirtier now than it was before, and feels more dangerous. I have a friend who got raped by a stranger right outside her house. She didn't report it to the police, because she figured it wouldn't help. She didn't even tell her parents. They still don't know.It seems like every time you look at television, there are all these men talking about what they're going to do, and how they're going to fix this country. They promise everything, and then do nothing. Just like with the fighting in...where is it they're fighting now? Chechnya. They talk and talk, and nothing changes.
My one dream is to have a good husband and good children. I want two children: first a boy, then a girl. And I would like it if we could live in our own house, not with my parents.
I can't really say where I would live if I could pick any city in the world. I've only been out of Vladivostok once, and that was just to the Khabarovsk Region. I don't have anything to compare it to, but it seems to me that Vladivostok is a pretty nice place.
Ildar:
I work in Sakhalin as a marine biologist. I would rather live in Vladivostok, but it's hard to find good work, and in Sakhalin I have a nice apartment and a car.My job is to monitor the number of crabs being caught and the levels of the crab stocks. It's interesting work. I love working with the sea.
But it's also very difficult work, to see how the people catching crabs now are just catching and catching, as many as they can. They don't understand that there is not an unlimited number of crabs in the sea. They don't realize that if they keep catching crabs at the numbers they are now, than in two or three years, there will be hardly any crabs left to catch.
They don't think of these things, because all they want is to live for today. Catch more crabs, make more money. As long as they make a lot of money today, why worry about tomorrow? It's like a symbol of our country today.
