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Chestertown’s Bocharova has persistence at her core



CHESTERTOWN, Md. — Maryland’s Eastern Shore is very different from Tomarovka in Russia’s Belgorod Oblast. Oksana Bocharova has seen both. She was raised in that section of Russia, near its border with Ukraine, and learned about agriculture through her father, Yuriy Belyaev, who managed a large collective farm. She earned a master’s degree in agronomy in 1992. With that, she […]


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