Contents

Let’s talk about Kyiv RS . . 4

EYPers of XX century . . 10

EYP abroad . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Smoking in EYP . . . . . . . 14

Lucky EYP number . . . . 15

EYP Weekends . . . . . . . . . 18

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Official newspaper issue of EYP-Ukraine #2 (13) April - June, 2012

F rom 16 till 19 of August 2012 EYP – Ukraine will hold its 1st Odesa International Fo-rum that will gather around 100 partici-

pants from different Ukrainian cities and abroad. The 1st Odesa International Forum will con-

sist of 1 day of teambuilding, 2 days of com-mittee work and the last General Assembly day.

The Forum will be held under the motto ‘Sun-rise of ECOunity’. Delegates will have to do a re-search on ecology that relate to national security, scarcity of natural resources, environmental pollu-tion, ecological culture, ecological health. They will also be given a chance to explore Odesa – famous touristic port city of Black Sea coast of Ukraine.

The Head-organisers of the Forum are Anna Lachykhina and Vitalii Ovsiiuk. EYP – Ukraine is honoured to have Valentina Mina from Cy-prus as the President of the Forum and Vitalie Popov from Moldova as Forum’s Editor. Spon-sors of the 1st Odesa International Forum are SCM, Opean Hearts Foundation and DF Group.

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n the 12th of June European Youth Parliament – Ukraine was glad to welcome everyone to celebrate its

12th birthday anniversary. The event gath-ered about 30 members of EYP, as well as other interested young men and women under the arch of Friendship in Kyiv. Since 2000, when EYP – Ukraine was founded, more than a thousand members have joined it. A lot of them got to travel abroad and de-bate on controversial topics at Internation-al Sessions of European Youth Parliament.

The event started with an official part, where people were able to get acquainted with the organisation, its board and members. Of-ficial part took place in the conference hall of European Village. Bianka Baumler (Commu-nication Manager at EU delegation) took the first words to congratulate EYP-Ukraine on behalf of co-host of the event. Yevhen Polten-ko, Executive Director of Charity Foundation

“Open Hearts of Ukraine” congratulated EYP and presented printer as a gift to the organi-sation. Inspirational words from Vasyl My-roshnychenko, co-founder of EYP, and Anna Supruennko, president of EYP – Ukraine were followed by special “EYP – award”.

Iryna Garbuz, Artem Gumeniuk, An-astasia Ianovytska and Oviemuno Utomakili were awarded for active par-ticipation in the life or organisation.

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NEW BOARDELECTIONS

re you ready to become a board member of EYP – Ukraine? Then don’t miss EYP – Ukraine Board elections this autumn!

“Being a board member - indeed a great respon-sibility, but at the same time great experience and unique knowledge which you might gain!” – says Anna Suprunenko, President of EYP – Ukraine.

The Board of EYP – Ukraine consists of the Presi-dent of the organisation, five Heads of the depart-ments and Secretary. The Heads of PR and FR de-partments are Vice-Presidents of the organisation.

Follow the call of board members with the instruc-tions in the end of the summer and don’t miss the opportu-nity to become one of the board members of EYP – Ukraine!

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“The European Youth Parliament makes me what I am today. We want to bring Europe to Ukraine and Ukraine to Europe”, – said Anastasiia Ianovytska, member of European Youth Parliament (EYP) leadership group, offering flowers to co-founder of EYP – Ukraine Vasyl Myroshnychenko.

Recently joined EYP members, who had just re-turned from the International Session in Istanbul, presented the General Assembly. The committee on Agriculture and Rural Development presented their resolution, together with the defense speech and one round of debates. The resolution had passed voting

procedure. The event was followed by a little birth-day party with a very tasty yellow-blue EYP cake.

Few days later, 25 members of EYP from differ-ent generations gathered in country house near Chernihiv to celebrate 12th Anniversary of EYP-Ukraine in family atmosphere. Lasting 2 days, the event was full of true EYP spirit (if you know what I mean) – some of the guests, including organis-ers were forced to hitchhike in order to get to the venue. Slava Kalanteev even used a milk-track.

Evening party brought a lot of emo-tions and made the event unforgettable.

Written by Alex Guzenko, Anna Suprunenko and Roksolana Pidlasa

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rom the 4th till the 7th of April 2012 the 5th Kyiv Regional session of EYP – Ukraine took place. More than 100

representatives from 16 European countries gathered at the Institute of International Re-lations of Taras Shevchenko National Univer-sity of Kyiv to discuss burning ecological is-sues, which were united under the main topic of the session “Blue Planet: Red Alert? Think green!” In 8 committees delegates discussed global warming, nuclear power plants safety, renewable energy sources, recycling, sus-tainable water management, biodiversity etc.

It was an event to remember for a lifetime. Organisers were doing their best to impress all the participants. And now we are going to find out whether their efforts were not vain.

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I think my expectations came true: I expected the session to be awesome and unique, and it was like that! Except for the hotel and the food everything was fine.

Luise Peeck (Delegate, DE)

Totally. Kyiv was pretty wild. Very different culture from the one we have in Germany. I met a lot of friendly people and had a lot of fun.

Arne Packschies (Delegate, DE)

Everything turned out to be far far far from my expectations. When the session started, I felt as if noth-ing was done before and we have to organise everything on the spot, from the very beginning.

Ievheniia Melekhovets (HO)

DID YOUR EXPECTATIONS ABOUT THE SESSION COME TRUE?

Maria Shcherbak (Interviewer)

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WHAT DID YOU LEARN FROM THE SESSION?

I learnt that Ukrainians are very happy and lovely, and that our planet must be greener.

Kai Wittig (Delegate, DE)

EYP is always a great experi-ence for meeting new and old friends all over Europe, improv-ing your own English, learning and discussing important issues.Daniel Singer (Delegate, DE)

The first thing I’ve learnt is that the practice always differs from the theory. Also I’ve real-ized where is the line between friendship and work relations.

Tetiana Korniichuk (HO)

Anna Safronava (Video-editor, BY)

I’ve learnt how to work with a soft-ware, I’ve never used before; and how to cook dinner for 8 people.

WHICH MEMORIES ARE THE BRIGHTEST?Orga meeting in bed. 6 o’clock in the morning: “Wake up call! Dear, we have an orga meeting in 10 minutes.”

Ievheniia Melekhovets (HO)

Oh, there were a lot of nice moments: teambuilding, parties, GA, and, of course, coffee breaks with Barni.

Alex Bodo (Delegate, MD)

The farewell party. Liver for break-fast. Public transport in Kyiv (aw-ful). Limo rides in Kyiv (awesome).Arne Packschies (Delegate, DE)

I’ll never forget the limousine night ride across Kyiv because it pro-vided a very special moment with-in my Committee. Also, Riaan’s speech will forever stay in my mind for his sincerity and inspiration.Bruno Moreira (Chairperson, PT)

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WHICH qUALITIES SHOULD A PERSON HAvE TO BE A PERFECT CHAIR?

A chair should be charismatic per-son, who should be professional and be able to balance fun staff and academical content while chairing. Also i believe a chair should pos-sess some psychological skills to be able to feel the situation in the team.

Anna Suprunenko (Chairperson)

WHICH qUALITIES SHOULD A PERSON HAvE TO BE A PERFECT jOURNO?

WHICH qUALITIES SHOULD A PERSON HAvE TO BECOME A HEAD-ORGANISER?

HOW MUCH TIME DID YOU SPEND FOR PREPARATION TO THE SESSION?

Enthusiasm and sober way of think-ing. The main thing is to maintain en-thusiasm for the preparation period.

Tetiana Korniichuk (HO)

Willingness to sacrifise and 100% dedication to what you are doing.Ievheniia Melekhovets (HO)

More than 6 months. We be-gan to think about the concept and venues already in October.

Tetiana Korniichuk (HO)

In order to create a perfect ma-terial journo have to know his topic really, really good.And since the topic is "peo-ple" (participants) good journo’s first and most important task is to get to know all the people.Even before the session - background check on FB, collect data... and keep collecting it during the session.Being “people person” is the key.

Michał Rejman (Journalist, PL)Around 2 weeks for a preparation.

I’ve been prepar-ing for 3 days.

No more than 3 hours.

WHAT MAKES EYP-UKRAINE SESSIONS UNIqUE?

I think that it’s the mix of selflessness and the wish to show how much Ukraine actually has to offer. There are basic things that differ in Ukraine, like the age of the delegates. When go-ing to Ukraine to a session you can be assured that you're gonna be pampered. You guys really care to make us feel excellent on all frontiers, you want us to see that Ukraine is more than just “some country in Eastern Europe”. Being on the constant struggle to make things the best they are and even though you have already given us the best, you always try to pop a cher-ry on top. An excellent example of that are the limousines.

To sum it up I'd say that it's self-dedication, self-realisation and self-determination. You give 101% of yourself for the session, because you want to be the best and make sure every-one sees that you are on the way.

Kārlis Caune (Editor, LV)

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WHAT DO YOU FIND WEIRD, INTERESTING OR FUNNY ABOUT UKRAINE?

For lunch they served us fish as vegetarian food, forgetting that fish is actually an animal and a meat as well. What I re-ally like is that Ukrainian girls have this reputation of strong, fighting and idealistic women.

Riaan Stipp (President, DE)

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eneral Assembly in EYP

– Ukraine usually stands

for introducing EYP to the young

interested in development peo-

ple and reporting on what has been

done during the last months. This

year GA took place at the Institute

of Philology of Kyiv National Taras

Shevchenko University on April 21st.

Approximately at 11:30 40 young,

encouraged by European identity peo-

ple, started to deep into the world of

EYP – Ukraine, as they saw the first

speaker on the stage. The introduc-

tion of the EYP in general and EYP –

Ukraine took place. After this we moved

to reporting on the past Sessions with

the help of the participants. Clicking

on the pictures from various sessions,

officials as well as delegates shared

their memories and emotions about

particular event that they had vis-

ited as the members of EYP – Ukraine.

The presentation included reports

on different sessions, such as Moldova,

Poland, Germany, as well as Ukraine.

The audience was acquainted with the

bright report of Ukrainian Delegation of

69-th International Session in Istanbul.

After that, Yegor Vlasenko on behalf of

the Board of EYP – Ukraine gave the

insight into the work of organisation.

The second part of the GA was dedi-

cated to the work-shops. The charm-

ing Miss President of the EYP –

Ukraine Anna Suprunenko provided

a great training regarding the organi-

sational skills. The chairing process

was presented by one of the most ex-

perienced EYP – Ukraine members

Kateryna Vynogradova. The head of

the PR Department Ievheniia Mele-

khovets revealed the secrets of lay-

ing out media coverage of the session.

The final stage of the GA gave an op-

portunity for newcomers to officially

become a member of EYP - Ukraine

and obtain a personal card. In con-

tinuation everyone moved to the

cozy pub “Bochka” and had a Hap-

py Hour which meant the end of the

General Assembly of EYP – Ukraine.

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Julia Pustovoitova

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They would go to libraries to do research on session topic…

They would use pens to write newspaper articles…

They would send greeting cards via post…

e all know the history of EU enlargement perfectly well. But none of us here has ever touched upon the topic of history of European Youth Parliament. The first body we usually consult in such cases is Google. But back then Google was no more

than a challenge in the heads of two teenagers. The only thing that remains practical is archives. Fortunately, we do know an exact address of EYP archives – Rossenstrasse 28-29, Berlin. That’s an EYP office. This is where the Resolution from 1994 has been recently found and kindly provided by Jacob Duringer, Project Manager of EYP. Here are some extracts (contact pr@eyp-ua.org for a full text)

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EYPers of XX centuryby Ievheniia Melekhovets

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18 years ago youngsters would predict the overflow of internet data, highlight the necessity of proper leg-islation/education, foresee on-line payments and talk on cyber-crimes. We may only wonder whether they thought it to be so soon. Beware: the future is closer than it seems to be.

EYPABROAD

by Lyubov Dvoretska

ELLO, MY DEAR EYP TRAvELERS! Our long and exhausting wait for summer is finally over and most of you must’ve al-ready packed your bags for amazing sum-

mer sessions and forums abroad. Or not? Sure, I can relate. Who would want to go anywhere if you can meat Crishtiano Ronaldo or Mario Gomez here in Ukraine? EURO 2012 has finally come to US. BUT there is a place in Europe where you can go without missing any football fun. It’s high time to finally visit our friends in one of the most charismatic nation-al committees (who also happen to be our reliable partners in hosting EURO 2012) – EYP POLAND! (When tired of looking for Crishtiano in Ukraine, it’s high time to go look for Fernando Torres in Poland) SO HERE WE GO!

You cannot claim yourself to be a truly experienced HARD CORE EYPER if you have never been to the session in Poland. Every event there is quintessence of hard work, unforgettable fun, truly unique people and EYP spirit that totally blows your mind. All that is definitely thank to the hard and very-well struc-tured work of their Board and National Committee.

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National Committee: EYP PolandLocation: Poland (yes, that awesome country right over our western border) Year of establishment: 2006Current President: Maciek Świder

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or a country so close to Ukraine it’s truly amazing how far it seems when you’re trying to get there, because trust

me, going to Poland is always an adventure. GOInG BY TRAIn you’ll witness the process of changing wheels (and while spending couple of hours just sitting on the boarder you’ll be kept wondering why, oh why Ukraine just has to have wider railways). GOInG BY BUS you’ll definitely meet some interest-ing people and would get very well acquainted with customs surroundings. And if you are brave enough to CROSS THE BORDER On FOOT in Sheginy, you’ll be rewarded by the cheerful sign “Exit from Ukraine” and “how to hide cigarettes” master-class by local babushkas. So, generally, by the time you’ll get to the session destination you’d be feeling like Indiana Jones, prepared for anything. But the ses-sion is always worth it.

When finally you’ve got to the lovely and always historical to some extent Polish city that hosts the session you can be sure to be met, welcomed and al-ways understood by organisers. I do not know if it’s about sisterly/brotherly nations or the fact that after 2 days there you always start to at least understand, if not speak Polish, but there’s so many things we have in common!

We do love all our similarities, but the original-ity of Polish EYPers is also a long-time love of ours. AVERAGE POLISH EYPER is very emotional, re-ally tough and energetic (seriously they make those Duracell bunnies seem like turtles!), speaks (or at least understands) Ukrainian, loves animals, smokes “Sobranie”, is not afraid to deal with emergency ser-vices and is always very creative. So as you can see there are a lot of reasons to love EYP-Poland and Pol-ish EYPers. So, my dears, don’t be jealous of those lucky ones go-ing to Krakow International Forum this summer apply-apply-apply to Polish sessions. REMEMBER, Europe is bigger and closer than you ever thought.See you around, somewhere in Europe. Hopefully in POLAnD ;)

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Smoking in EYP

The total of 247 people from countries like Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, France, Germany and some others expressed their opinions by answer-ing several questions. Most of them were of age 17-22, though there were people younger and old-er than this range. It appeared that luckily most of the people don’t smoke and some already quit do-ing that. Probably as a result of all raising aware-ness publicity, almost all people understand that smoking has a bad impact on health and not only for smokers, but also for the people around them.

The sad thing is that even acknowledging the negative impact on the health, about 30 percent of answerers still continue to smoke. Some of these people, though, do consider some changes in their behavior and habits. For example, many smokers would consider quitting if a close person would ask them to do so or at least try not to smoke when this person is around. On the other hand, most of the non-smokers are quite tolerant and understand that it is a person’s individual choice, though they still try to ask them

to quit or at least not smoke near non-smokers. When it comes to smoking during EYP session,

it gets difficult. On some sessions it is forbidden to smoke, but smokers still find time and place to smoke. So, taking into an account, that smoking is a habit most of them can’t resist, the real question is when should they be allowed to smoke? Should there be smoking breaks and smoking areas or should they manage all their problems during regular breaks?

Around 80 percent of the answers stated that they should wait for the official break and around 15 per-cent think that they should smoke even only during their free time and not during the session events like Teambuiding or Committee work, etc. Moreover, most of the people think that young people should be discouraged from smoking, though they under-stand that it is an individual choice of every person. Unfortunately, there were people, who not only don’t

understand the negative impact of smoking on the health, but also wouldn’t change his or her

habits and quit even if somebody close asked.

o smoke or not to smoke? This is the question young people ask themselves. Smoking has become a tough and hot topic these days because of the quantity of people smoking. As a result, the youth’s attitude towards smoking has changed in Europe from positive

to negative. But still there are many smokers among young people. Anastasiia Ianovitska con-ducted a research in order to understand the place of smoking in European Youth Parliament.

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written by Olya Popovych

research conducted by Anastasiia Ianovytska

Survey summary is available here

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Lucky EYP numbere continue the column, dedicated to the members of EYP-Ukraine. As every one of them is unique, we decided to introduce

the luckiest ones to our readers. According to a special mathematical scheme, two lucky numbers are chosen from the database of the Parliament. Meet our winners!

Wquestions:1. What was your most unforgetta-ble EYP-party?2. If you had a chance to visit only one country, what would you choose and why?3. If you could rid the world of one thing, what it would be and why? Artem Gumenyuk

Studies at Kyiv National Linguistic University (Translator)Joined EYP in 2010, has attended 5 sessions, HR dept.

1. When I think about cool party, I always recall times in Athens, during 66th EYP International session. So we had this Farewell party and everyone expected it to be in the nightclub. But it turned out to be in the quiet cafe in the downtown. A couple of delegates including myself were thirsty for some music beat, so we went on the search for a club. So here we go - bunch of foreigners walking at 1.00 a.m. without any knowledge of Greek in the unknown city, where people don’t speak English. That was quite an experience which will be remembered for a life-time.

2. Well, Europe sounds boring to me, so I would go for New Zealand. It’s damn far away from the rest of the world and it lit-erally strikes you with its picturesque mountains and valleys. I’d love to spend there a couple of weeks on the backpacking trip.

3. I would get world rid of fear. Fear of death, fear of love, fear of failure and fear of success. I wish peo-ple never feared to be down, to be heartbroken, to be ig-nored, or not to be understood. I wish none of us feared to live to the fullest and to share their lives with others.

Balami Mdama ArdoStudies at Luhansk State Medical UniversityJoined EYP in 2012, has not attended any session yet

1. I have not attended any EYP party yet...2. The Netherlands, it is a unique European

location with lots of history and masterpieces, protected housing monuments, etc.

3. I would rid the world of the global pol-

lution to restore a healthy environment.

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team spirit, to promote EYP, to or-ganise an EYP event? If yes, then join EYP – Ukraine departments!

As you may know, there are five hard-working departments, headed by ambitious and experienced EYPers: Zhenya (PR), Yegor (FR), Lyuba (IA), Anya (HR) and Kristina (RD). You can either join one of the departments, or all of them. To help you make a de-cision, we decided to give you the main information about the depart-ments. Visit this page for contact info.

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t has always been a good tradition to do some physical exercises at EYP events. Of course, all these Zulu Dances and Big Fat Pony Fitness are

helpful for warming up the blood and refreshing the overloaded brain, serving as a boost of physical exer-cises in the middle of a long distance of intensive mind work called an EYP session. However, all these physical activities are rather far from real sport, and a true EY-Per is always looking for a new challenge to overcome – both at university auditorium and sports ground. Another feature of a true EYPer is being socially re-sponsible and helpful where it comes to society’s good.

So, where can sport challenge, volunteering and social work, and true EYP spirit possibly meet? –Still looking for the answer? Come on, easy one – just check the date: Sunday, May 27, 10 AM, Maidan Nezhalezhnosti Square, Kyiv.

Huge crowd of people blocking the square, waving corporate flags, yellow organizing tents, small stage. This time it’s not a political protest, and it’s too early for EURO 2012 madness. The only remaining an-swer – it’s “Probig pid Kashtanami”, one of the most massive charity marathons! This year 6000 took part in the run – individuals and corporate team mem-bers, professional sportsmen and amateurs, youth

and elderly people, new-born babies and even dogs. EYP team members joined the crowd and showed good results, being faster than most of office plank-ton and (!) several dogs on the 5km distance from Maidan to L’va Tolstogo square and back again. Apart from sport component, the event was filled with positive atmosphere and spirit of unification, as everyone was feeling like a part of a competi-tive, socially responsible and just healthy movement.

When the marathon was over, nearly everybody promised to him/herself to gather for the next one exactly in one year and bring more friends and colleagues. EY-Pers weren’t an exception and drafted a plan for the next year – to involve at least 100 EYPers into this cool event.

“Every Sunday should start like this” was my first thought when the run was over. And what do you do to keep fit?

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Come and join till the 1st of July!

To get more information visit the official web-site

at the EUROPEAN village

at “PROBIG pid Kashtanami”

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EYP Weekends

n the 27-28th of April 2012 a city of Ternopil became a

place where something really cool and amazing was happen-

ing. Of course, I am talking about the 3rd EYP Weekend!

This mini-session was the first time when I tried out myself as a

chairperson. To be honest it was challenging for me but at the same

time I had a great desire to contribute my time, knowledge and en-

ergy to make this session a huge success. I really wanted to cre-

ate a comfortable environment for delegates so they could feel

free in their actions and opinions. I remember when during offi-

cials’ team meeting the President of the session Dasha Popelnukh

said that we, officials, came here for delegates and that was so true.

I will never forget funny and energetic Teambuilding, tough but fruit-

ful Committee Work, spicy food from organisers, hot and productive

General Assembly. In my opinion, the session was well-organized and

successful. Delegates have got a chance to observe how EYP works and

use their knowledge in practice. To my mind, the 3rd EYP Weekend

in Ternopil was a good starting point of EYP carrier for these pupils.

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story told by Mariia Ihnatova

TERNOPIL

YP Weekend in Simferopil took place between 14th and

15th of june and was conducted in the SimferopilUniver-

sity of Economy. Presided by experienced EYPer Olek-

sandra Gipsh, session was held under the general topic “Chal-

lenges of 21st century: traditional vs. alternative sourcesof energy”.

EYP Weekend was built as an ordinary EYP session starting with

fun Teambuilding, followed by fruitful Committee Work and conclud-

ed with heated debates during the General Assembly. Two commit-

tees worked during this session – Committee on Culture and Educa-

tion (CULT) and Committee on Industry, Research and Technology

(ITRE). First one was chaired by Roksolana Pidlasa, second one – by

Maria Bessarab. Delegates of the Session were representatives of 10th

and 11th grades as well as 1st, 3rd and 4th years of university students.

Delegates showed their skills and did their best during Com-

mittee Work as well as during General Assembly. Especial-

ly they enjoyed teambuilding, which made them laugh and

smile. This session was a good experience for all participants

and brought a lot of new impressions and of course new friends.

by Vira Gembarska

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