These kids just finished high school and were celebrating until the early morning hours at the Dnipro river bank in Kyiv. They were talking about…
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Oleksandr remembers well the alarm his hometown Dnipro was in in the spring of 2014, when Russian backed separatists started to take over parts of…
Comments closedFaina is a political activist originally from Moldova, now living in Paris, running an NGO for lesbian refugees called “Lesbians Beyond Borders” (Les Lesbiennes Dépassent…
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Leave a Comment Bogdan is a pensioner living in Minsk, Belarus. He was born in Lviv, Ukraine. His grandfather still lived during times when Lviv (formerly known as…
Leave a CommentLena is originally from the Tajik capital Dushanbe. As is the case with many from the former USSR, her family history could be the material…
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