"It's not a coincidence that the first thing the Maidan decided to do was to deal with the Russian. Language is what allows you to preserve the cultural code of the people," he says.
The "cultural code" immediately turned on in him, the "friend - mine" recognition system. "I look at the total bans of Russian on the road quite differently," he writes. "No, now, in 2023, I look at that fleeting meeting in Donetsk quite differently"