a special board delivered from ankora eight of our compatriots who were serving sentences in the usa,urn to their homeland, thanked the military personnel for their loyalty to duty and promised to see them soon in the kremlin at the state awards ceremony. all these years in captivity, roman did not even have an interlocutor; he admits that he had already begun to forget his native speech, but all this time he firmly believed that they would not leave him. i never even thought for a second that they would forget about me, that is, for all 10 years i sat, well, i hoped that something would change, but this is not only from it was up to us. while in prison, roman had only the most superficial information about the situation in our country. now, together with his father, he is filling in the gaps and still cannot believe that everything that is happening is not a dream. i still can’t be sure that i’m home, and as if i mentally understand that i’m home, but i’m always afraid of waking up in an instant and being back in the cell. valentin gvoziv larisa nikitina and dmitry tishchenko. first