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DANA MAKSIMOVA – THE ON-AIR PRESENTER OF
THE RUSSIAN COAST RADIO STATION, DUBBING
ACTRESS, AND TRANSLATOR, HAS RECENTLY
FOCUSED ON CREATING HER BRAND OF NATURAL
y journey began many years cities, and most of the island consists of green hills, CARE COSMETICS. HER APPEARANCE IN ALANYA
ENG
ago when I suddenly realized open spaces, and wastelands where sheep graze WAS AKIN TO A BRIGHT FLASH, A LIGHTNING
that my native Riga was too peacefully – ecology, peace. There are a lot of STRIKE. THE FINAL CHORD OF HER MORE THAN
Msmall for me. Riga is indeed, Russians in Ireland, several hundred thousand, even TWENTY-YEAR TOUR OF THE WORLD.
although it is considered the capital – the city is very though Ireland itself is a little more than 5 million. By
provincial, and there is nowhere to turn around. saying «Russians», I again mean all Russian speakers,
Many residents of the former USSR will disagree with including Latvians, Jews, Ukrainians, and many
me – what about Jurmala, Dzintari, the House of others. Here I managed to tighten up the language
the Blackheads, and St. Peter’s Church? Well, how? so seriously that it allowed me to get a job in a state
These are just tourist attractions. And I wanted more. legal structure as a translator. Then she worked as an
My first emigrant experience was in Australia. The assistant lawyer. Therefore, later I went to study law
truth is, it didn’t last very long. This was the first serious at a prestigious university in Ireland. In total, I spent
motive to learn the language. Before that, I knew almost 12 years in Ireland. Not always, of course.
English, like all the students of «London is the capital There was a period in my life when I lived and did
of Great Britain ...», but immersion in the environment business in Russia, in St. Petersburg.
allowed me to master the language properly. My husband from St. Petersburg is a big
The next point on my way was Ireland – I stayed businessman – a producer in the food sector. By the
here for a long time. Ireland is an amazing country, way, there was a short Turkish period in my life, we
our compatriots don’t know much about it. By saying spent several months in Bodrum. To be honest, I didn’t
«our compatriots» I mean the former USSR. The like it. I especially did not like the obsessive attention
fact is that although I was born in Riga, I am not of Turkish men. But, whether it has something to do
Latvian. My mother is Russian-Ukrainian, and my with the place, or with the general situation in Turkey,
father is Azerbaijani–Iranian. But – an amazing
thing – everyone I met, for example in St. Petersburg,
recognized me as a Baltic.
So, Ireland is an amazing country, Dublin is not
the most attractive place on earth, but there is Cork,
and Galway – amazingly picturesque and cozy

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