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From city to countryside: How Russian youth reinvents peasant life

  • 26 Oct 09:03

Today, moving from the city to the countryside has become the mainstream in Russia, but in 2012 the Bajans were one of the first such families to step into the unknown, rethinking the concept of eco-living in the countryside. Mikhail and Valeriya Bajan from the Russian city of Tver decided to move to the countryside in 2012. Both in their early twenties with degrees in law and engineering, they got tired of living a busy life in the city in a tiny apartment and were dreaming instead about having a big house in the countryside and cultivating their own land. For them and many other like-minded young people, living outside the city presents an opportunity to relax a. Read more...