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Switzerland and Ukraine have more in common than you might think
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Switzerland and Ukraine have more in common than you might think

written by Jean-David Ponci

DOSSIER «LA SUISSE, DEFINITION», Jean-David Ponci | Eduard Nadtochiy teaches Russian history, culture, literature and philosophy at the Slavic Languages Department of the University of Lausanne. His father is Ukrainian. However, he grew up in Moscow. He then spent two years as a teaching assistant at the University of Kharkov, Ukraine's second-largest city. Unlike Russians and the majority of Ukrainians, he is a member of the Ukrainian Church, which is attached to Rome. He is therefore particularly well qualified to undertake the complex exercise of comparing Switzerland and Ukraine.

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