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Mansur Mirovalev

As Russia’s war drags, Ukraine’s nail bars provide joy and work

Margarita Popova, a native of Mariupol, works at the Bunny Nails salon in Kyiv, Ukraine [Mansur Mirovalev/Al Jazeera]

Kyiv, Ukraine – You don’t usually expect to see a voodoo doll in a nail salon.

But here it lies, surrounded by bottles of nail polish in southwestern Kyiv – with a derogatory term for “Russian” handwritten on a white piece of cloth stitched to a motanka, a traditional Ukrainian rag doll.

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