DASHA was 8
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20 min
2008
b&w
Saint-Petersburg
with Dasha Belova
images : Vika Ilyushkina
English
How big is the world? Dasha was eight years old when Perestroika started, where were the borders of her world then? What memories does she have of the end of the Soviet Union? Have these changes broadened her young teenage world? And today, when Russia is considered to be a constitutionally democratic and open country, what borders confront her?