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Spectator Out Loud: Svitlana Morenets, Cindy Yu and John Connolly

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Russian Teachers Are Being Lured to Ukraine With the Promise of Free Property

Russia has sent in more than 200 teachers to these regions. They are paid a daily fee of seven thousand roubles, which is roughly seven times what they would earn at home in russia. Russian teachers are also being lured to ukraine with the promise of free property. It is highly likely that if they are given houses, these will have once belonged to ucranians who have been killed or are exiled. My brother was born in two thousand 14 and has only ever known a crane at war in one way or another. He has not spent much time in school, thanks to covid and putin but packed class rooms would be an obvious target for the cramline.

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