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Three journalists share stories of travels undertaken in the year of the pandemic. 大象传媒 Delhi's Neha Sharma went to Indian-administered Kashmir, a year after it was stripped of autonomy; Victoria Uwonkunda of 大象传媒 Africa covered the US election, finding voters from the African diaspora; and Olga Ivshina of 大象传媒 Russian went to Azerbaijan to meet families affected by the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

Mosul after Islamic State
Iraqis recently celebrated Victory Day, which marks the day in December 2017 when the last remnants of so-called Islamic State were finally driven from the country. The toughest part of that campaign was the battle to retake Mosul, captured by IS in 2014. Two 大象传媒 journalists who reported on the fighting - Nafiseh Kohnavard of 大象传媒 Persian, and 大象传媒 Arabic's Basheer Al-Zaidi - share memories, and tell us what Mosul is like now.

In praise of borsch
Roman Lebed of 大象传媒 Ukrainian gives us his ode to borsch, the beetroot soup eaten all over Ukraine and Russia. But who made it first? Roman tells us about the battle over its origins, and shares memories of his great-grandmother's recipe, as well as revealing his own secret ingredient.

Image: Olga Ivshina in Azerbaijan
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