While Ukraine is fighting to get away from Russian influence, what does the Latvian "Non-Citizen" teach us, with its 300 000 Russian-speakers wound up into the recesses of History ? I met the main character Sergey in Riga in 2012. Surgeon ...See moreWhile Ukraine is fighting to get away from Russian influence, what does the Latvian "Non-Citizen" teach us, with its 300 000 Russian-speakers wound up into the recesses of History ? I met the main character Sergey in Riga in 2012. Surgeon and researcher, he was defending his work in a medical congress. With his gentle eyes, his Docteur Zhivago's face he would conqueer any person in the audience. Two years later I met a different man, in Donetsk in the middle of the Ukrainian conflict. He volunteered in an hospital in Lugansk to provide the first help to the independentists soldiers. Non Citizen Land is a reflexion on the situation of some ethnic russian facing discrimination within a European community more and more hostile. An isolated case or the tendency for the next decade ?
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