Notes from a Funeral

Today I received the following report from Club Orlov's special Kiev correspondent, Yu Shan:

Yesterday I was at a funeral. The crowd was well over 500, much more than I originally thought would be possible. It was a deeply emotional event. The man to whom everyone bid farewell was Olesya Buzina, a writer, historian, free thinker, wacky conversationalist, warm friend, a man who identified deeply with both the complex yet incomplete Ukrainian culture and the multifaceted entity of eastern Slavic Orthodox Russian civilization, a man who would not take side easily, and would adhere to his lone stand even when death threats started to arrive at his door step on a weekly basis.

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