Mariam Aburdeineh and Buzz McClain

  • February 23, 2022

    The conflict in Ukraine the world is observing now is nothing new to Anton Liagusha.

    When gun-brandishing, Russia-backed separatists took over the Donetsk National University in Donetsk, Ukraine, in 2014, the country’s prime minister hastily relocated the school to a new campus in Vinnytsia, 20 hours away by train. Now the disused former diamond cutting factory is the site of a university that is, technically, in exile.