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A kid fishing for something near the Metro Bridge.
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Someone snoozing on the banks of the Dnipro River.
I listened to Latynina and Portnikov discuss the difference between identity and ethnicity and how Ukrainians were never partners in Russia’s imperial project and Soviet empire.
Yulia and a former advisor to the President’s Office chatted up earlier the Russia-Ukraine war as if it were a civil war (which I spent about 10 years arguing unuccessfully that it was not1).
Disclaimer: I am a citizen of Ireland and ethnically Irish. I have zero English cultural baggage. I do have American, Belarusian and Ukrainian cultural baggage, however.
For the record. Yesterday, I was asked to find documented evidence of my expulsion from Belarus is 1997 for submission to Ukraine’s Migration Service involving a refugee status application.
Here’s a pic of Dante (1265-1321) and Big Fatty.
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And, finally, on a lighter note:
The ‘Civil War’ is Over. Putin ends so-called rebellion (April 26, 2019)
WHY WOULD A COUNTRY WANT TO EXPEL A NICE GUY LIKE YOU? COMPLETE MYSTERY TO THIS DAY.... :)
I remember, your deportation from BY was on all TV channels.
I was at home with my parents watching TV and I was like : Hang on, I know this man. It's Peter.