@ShaulaEvans especially when that region is still "part of Russia" after what Russia did to it. So coming in, having been too young to really have learned about Chechnya at the time, then realising the scale of Russian brutality there but also its ...banality? was hugely revelatory.
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What is one book that positively shaped who you are as a person and how did it influence you?As a young adult: Anna Politkovskaya — A Small Corner of Hell. I was still finding my feet in Russia and while I understood how repressive it was, my vague idea of of Chechnya was largely through Russia's lens. This flipped my understanding, and while horrifying in many ways, also provided hope that bravery and pursuit of truth in the face of that was possible there.
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What is one book that positively shaped who you are as a person and how did it influence you?As a child: King's From A Buick 8. There was a scene where a man is walking around in the rain, with his long black coat billowing out behind him. To a young teen living a very constrained, small-town English life it evoked an sense of unknown freedom that I wanted to chase.
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Guy on the next table in the pub is telling his date about a fancy restaurant he's been to.@alicemcalicepants I would actually be very interested in hearing all about this
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Lithuania looking Lowry-esque (photo: Andrius Aleksandravičius)Lithuania looking Lowry-esque (photo: Andrius Aleksandravičius)
#Lithuania #Kaunas #Baltic #Baltics #Lowry #art #drone #dronephotography #photography
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Sigh, time to stop using Firefox.