Description
I began to write this story six years ago at my mother’s prompting before she passed away. My modest writings certainly are not a serious attempt at self-aggrandizement.
I spent the first half of a life filled with interesting events in Russia, and continue to enjoy the second half in America.
I received advanced education in the fields of economics, medicine, and foreign languages in Russia, and successfully worked in product management, international restaurant and hotel management, trade administration for an Italian company, as the wholesale purchase manager for a British corporation, as well as in marketing and business development under the auspices of a European Union program.
While living in America, I continued to study foreign language and master skills in a variety of fields. I worked for five years in a row for the US Department of Justice as a contract Russian language examiner.
I now prefer to work as an interpreter, especially within the judicial system, which allows me to broaden my horizons, including matters pertaining to immigration. I have taught Russian language and traditional culture from time to time over the past few years to diplomatic students who were destined to serve in the former Soviet republics.
The fact that America and Russia continue to fiercely oppose each other, using every means of propaganda, greatly disturbs me and has had an indirect impact on my daily life. It is exactly for this reason that I finished my writing only at the very end of 2016.
— Elena Hughes
Elena Hughes spent the first half of her life filled with interesting events in Russia, and continues to enjoy the second half in America.
M•Graphics
Truly an amazing story of what this woman went through. It shows what perseverance and never giving up will get you. There is evil in this world and glad that she overcame it and would highly recommend reading so you can we how truly blessed we are.
—Gary G.
Author Elena Hughes writes, “Every person has their own “planida” – their own lot in life. As it became clear to me many years ago, mine was to attract inconceivable circumstances and to bear witness to or participate in them.” Dual Citizenship delivers on this premise by telling you-can’t-make-this-up stories: standing next to a man in the Moscow subway as he was assassinated; being imprisoned in the house of an evil lawyer who had lured her to America on the promise of a job but it turned out he had other things in mind; visiting a nudist beach in California; having her husband doused in gasoline and burnt alive by a vindictive relative; getting caught up in a cat-and-mouse spy hunt in the U.S. embassy in Moscow. There is a movie to be made from this material.
—Julian Gehman
I read this book with great interest. Fascinating story of a Russian woman who came to live in America. Reading about her challenge, happiness and tragedies kept me glued to the book for several days. How different was life in those two countries! Can recommend this well written book to everybody.
—Anna, Amazon.com customer