This article is part of an extensive RuNet Echo study of Russian-language blogosphere in Eastern Ukraine. Explore the complete interview series on the Eastern Ukraine Unfiltered page.
Since the Yanukovych regime fell in February 2014, one of the most popular explanations for the political violence that gripped the south and east of Ukraine is nostalgia for an idealized Soviet past. Some commentators, such as Julia Ioffe, characterize this nostalgia as generational. In other words, those too young to remember the Soviet period properly are less likely to idealize it.
If this is the case, 32-year-old Sevastopol native Boris Rozhin is bucking the …read more
Source: Global Voices
