23 January 2023
"Before Russia invaded Ukraine I could still keep my distance," Katya Tolstoj tells VU Magazine. "But the people, the war: they're now in my home. Literally."
"It's no longer about stories in diaries, it's about individual people with specific histories, with names and faces, that I now carry in my heart. For me, as for many of my colleagues from the field of post-Soviet studies, Russia’s war in Ukraine means a convergence of the personal and the professional. The war underscores the dire need for theology and study of religion in our society and academia."
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