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By Audrey McGlinchy

In 2007, Carinthia Bank traveled to Ukraine for the first time. As an exchange student studying ballet at the Donetsk Ballet, Bank, now 18, participated in weekend trips scheduled by the company for its visiting students. Here she recognized a refinement that, according to her, most people don’t discern in a country that, in the late 20th century, struggled to manage its independence from a Soviet regime.

“A lot of people say that it’s not a beautiful place, but I think it is,” says the soft-spoken Chestnut Hill native.

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