Love and Hate of the Russian Language

Maria, i feel like you've thought about this, because youre opad for the glob an mail was on loving and hating russiana. And so wondering if we can wind back the clock, go back to that, and start with a kind of the loving part. Am, you were born in ukraine, then part of the soviet union. What was your relationship to the russian language growing up? Ah, s, i grew up speaking a russian and because i left ukraine at the age of seven. I wasn't able to absorb sort of flourishing of ucranian again over therea. So my dad does speak a ucran