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When the Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened in April 1986, I was nine years old. I’d just had a trial with Dynamo Kyiv, and it had gone well, but everything changed. In the first few days following t

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TWO figures stood on the western side of the Dnieper rapids: a tall youth and a little girl in a blue headscarf. Both were dressed in the distinctive clothes of the Cossack people. The little girl poi

I’D seen an advertisement in my father’s newspaper for women to work on the canal boats. It said applicants should be of a robust constitution. I’m quite robust, so why not? I’d give it a go. “Look, D