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Thank you to @sophianguyen.bsky.social of the @washingtonpost.com for her excellent interview with #pioneersummer coauthors Elena Malisova and Kateryna Sylvanova!
“Then the book went out into the big world,” Malisova said, “and we discovered things were really way worse than we thought.”
washingtonpost.com
Two friends wrote a gay romance — and had to flee Russia
“Pioneer Summer,” by Elena Malisova and Kateryna Sylvanova, which sparked a backlash amid a government crackdown, is now available in English
![A note (document) for a schooler, departing to a pioneer camp.
Last name: Konev.
First name: Yura.
Age: 5/70 (month and year).
Home address: Tschobotarskaya 45-16
Phone number: (blank). School №36, 9 "B" grade, Kholodnogorsky region. Healthy. Past illnesses - measles, chicken pox. (Some illegible writing in this graph). Physical state: fine. Physical training: general. Group: main. Date: May, 1986. Signature of a doctor: [ ]
Summary of a schooler's state of health during time in the pioneer camp: no infection is present. Signature of a pioneer camp doctor: [ ]
The document should be returned to the school
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