Elena Fomina

Galia, jeune ouvrière dans une usine de province, rêve de devenir mannequin. Elle quitte, un beau jour, ses parents alcooliques et son petit ami fruste et violent et monte à Moscou. Elle se fait embaucher, au culot, par un grand couturier qui la prend comme petite main, puis lui fait faire des ménages chez un homme qui dirige une agence de jolies filles qu'il marie à des oligarques. Galia, qui ne pense qu'à faire carrière, avance dans ce monde du luxe et de l'argent et parviendra à ses fins.

En 1996, dans un hôpital psychiatrique situé en Ingouchie, près de la frontière avec la Tchétchénie, les patients se trouvent livrés à eux-mêmes lors de la première guerre. Tous les soirs, Janna et les autres malades regardent un train passer, féérique et illuminé. Cette jeune femme se rêve à bord de ce train avec le « fiancé » qu'elle s'est imaginé, le chanteur canadien Bryan Adams. Un soir, le train ne passe pas et le lendemain, c'est le chaos. Le directeur de l'hôpital a disparu. Des combattants tchétchènes débarquent, puis les Russes contre-attaquent… Dans cette folie meurtrière, Janna est la seule à apporter un peu de douceur et de joie lorsqu'elle joue de l'accordéon.

Moscow, 1952, mid-October, the XIX Congress of the CPSU had just ended. A communal apartment on Bolshaya Pirogovka. In one of the rooms lives the Petkevich family: Ariadna with her husband Boris and her parents, professor of philosophy Peter Kazimirovich and his wife Angelina Fyodorovna. For those few months that remained until Stalin's death, the family experiences a series of dramatic events. But on a background of terrible time, antisemitism, fabricated "case of doctors", denunciations and snitches, there are people who live their lives without losing dignity.

The story of street children and the dog who penetrate into the fast food restaurants at night and catching terrorists in spare time.

When two athletic girls are forced to become drug mules and are then murdered by the mob, their girlfriends from the gym unite to avenge their deaths.

Max is a young and nimble, not particularly burdened with morality and principles, a provincial who is vigorously making a successful career in Moscow. He works in a recruitment agency, and his specialization is to fire top managers, help squeeze shares in companies and similar routine business issues. Max's next task is to get rid of the chief programmer of a large IT company, George. At first glance, work for a couple of days, because who is Zhora? A bearded boy under 40, the epitome of simplicity and inoffensiveness… But it turns out that this is a unique case, and it is incredibly difficult to dismiss Zhora! Especially considering how charming his stepsister is. Max will have to go through a lot of funny, touching and dangerous trials that will help him understand that there are other values in life besides career, money and real estate.

An ordinary chocolate factory worker begins to hear the voices of extraterrestrial civilizations, and habitual tenor of her life starts changing rapidly.