Syargey BandarenkaBelarus
He was born in 1963. After the Chernobyl disaster he was forced to leave his home, which was in the contamination zone. Spent several years in Russia in search of making a living. He is a craftsman and lives in Kreva.
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Sirarpi Arustamyan Armenia
She is a retired Chemical Scientist currently living in Vanadzor, Armenia. After receiving her Ph.D. from the Institute of Organoelement Compounds of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow in 1979, she returned to her native town Vanadzor (then Kirovakan), where she worked in the All-Union Institute of Polymer Adhesives until 2000.
Tetyana YankovaUkraine
Tetyana shares the story of the formation of her national identity and the economic peripeteia that she had to go through in the process of transforming society. Tatyana was born and raised in Kherson. She graduated from two institutes in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg, Russia), Moscow after which she taught at a college. She later …