Even Friday, an abandoned Winnie the Pooh stuffed bear still lies in a field between Hrabove and Petropavlivka. The sun is bleaching the pages of a Dutch-language version of Ivan Turgenevs novel Fathers and Sons in the 85-degree heat. No villagers on the ground died, but they are scared of what they might find next. No one with crash or cleanup expertise has told Ms. Voloshina or the other mayors what to do about the crash debris. We asked what to do, how we should act, but no one said anything, says Ms. Voloshina, a former mathematics teacher who grew up in Petropavlivka. She put on a formal purple dress and stood near the crash site this week, wringing her hands while trying to project an image of control.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 10:48:30 +0000