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Tomorrow I Go (2005)   Chernobyl and Albania's most famous nun  EUROVISION COUNTRY: Albania KYIV DESTINATION: St Florus Nunnery In August 1987 Albanian St Theresa of Calcutta paid a visit to Kyiv in order to visit a resettlement village for people displaced by the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl a year earlier. Also known as Mother Theresa of Calcutta, she was born in Macedonia to parents of Albanian nationality. She is claimed by both Kosovo and Albania as their own. Tirana international airport is named after her. At the time it was thought that she wanted to open a mission of her Catholic sisters of the Missionary of Charity inside the Soviet Union. This step to accept and open a religious charity would have been a significant milestone in the 'glasnost' policy of Mikhail Gorbachev.  http://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/21/world/soviet-gets-a-plea-by-mother-teresa.html  However, nothing happened following her trip, and she died one year later. St Teresa stayed overni