Love and the Lavra.
June 5th 2008 With Ana in Lugansk taking final exams, I found myself alone in the flat for two weeks. Faced with an unenviable choice between silence and Ukrainian television I spent my time outside instead, enjoying the summer weather and the city's collective lightened mood.
One walk took me to the Lavra monastery, and the war memorial within the grounds. A tall, needle-shaped statue stands in the middle o
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