Pavel Prokopchik

There are people in Russia that choose an alternative lifestyle. Away from all the politics and materialistically driven society. To me there can’t be a more positive story than a story about freethinking people that are willingly denying the comfortable lifestyle and life oriented at possession of things, particularly in a country that is caught up in between strictly controlled society and capitalism.Some of them turn to sale of illegal substances to support their lifestyle and evade a 9 to 5 office job, which doesn’t pay much anyway. Some keep their work and their life separately and refuse promotion not to get too involved in a corporate world. They are not the hippies of the 60’s nor are they the beatniks, even though some of them inherited the relentless sprit of Dean Moriarty from Kerouac’s – “On the road”. It’s a new generation that is still in search for the escape from the grips of our society.