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Rostov returns to reality after Wagner’s botched coup

29 June 2023

1:58 AM

29 June 2023

1:58 AM

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, it always seemed likely that the war would come back to Rostov-on-Don, the city which until then had been my home. Rostov isn’t just close to the border but feels it. Most of my university students were from the Donetsk and Lugansk, refugees from the 2014-2022 war.

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