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Among the people killed at the Domodedovo Airport terrorist attack was a young Ukrainian writer who had come to Moscow to receive a prize for her acclaimed new play, The Pagans. I first met Anna Mashutina, whom everyone knew by the pen name of Anna Yablonskaya, in Kiev last year. I sat in on a reading of her play Family Scenes. Set in modern-day Ukraine, the play centred on the life of a desperate woman, her post-traumatic stress-stricken warrior husband, their little son and the woman’s lover. Read more.