Experts warn of the consequences of the war in Russian society: the first crimes committed by Russian soldiers on home leave after leaving the front are already being recorded. There is no systematic psychological help for the returnees.
Julija Bujskich had a habit of not locking her front door: the neighbors should always be welcome. She wasn’t afraid. “I’m at home here!” she said to her granddaughter Anna Pekariowa. Julija Buyskich had spent her whole life in Vyatskiye Polyany, a small town in central Russia east of Kazan.