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About Almut Rochowanski

For nearly 20 years, I worked with grassroots activists in marginalized parts of the former Soviet Union, starting with and always returning to, Russia's North Caucasus region. Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Central Asia and the South Caucasus.

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