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'An important guide to the 21st century' TIMOTHY SNYDER, author of
The Road to Unfreedom To be a journalist is to tell the truth. I
Love Russia is Elena Kostyuchenko's fearless attempt to document
Russia as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally
erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the
outer provinces, patients and docĀtors at a Ukrainian maternity
ward, and reporters like herself. It takes us to places that
non-Russians have never seen and brings us voices we have never
heard. At once uncompromising and deeply humane, it stitches
reportage and personal essays into a kaleidoscopic, often
other-worldly journey. Here is Russia as it is, not as we imagine
it. I Love Russia may be the last work from her homeland
Kostyuchenko will publish for a long time - perhaps ever. She
writes driven by the conviction that the greatest form of love and
patriotism is criticism. And because the threat of Putin's Russia
extends beyond herself, beyond Crimea, and beyond Ukraine. This is
a singular portrait of a nation, and of a woman who refuses to be
silenced.
An unprecedented and intimate portrait of Russia, and fearless cri
de coeur for journalism in opposition to the global authoritarian
turn To be a journalist is to tell the truth. I Love Russia is
Elena Kostyuchenko's fearless and unrelenting attempt to document
Putin's Russia as experienced by those whom it systematically and
brutally erases: sex workers in Moscow, queer people in the outer
provinces, patients and doctors at a Ukrainian maternity ward, and
reporters like herself. The result is a singular portrait of a
nation and a young woman who refuses to be silenced. In March 2022,
as a reporter for Russia's last free press, Novaya Gazeta,
Kostyuchenko crossed the border into Ukraine to cover the war. It
was her mission to ensure that Russians witnessed the horrors Putin
was committing in their name. She filed her pieces knowing that
should she return home, she would likely be prosecuted and
sentenced to 15 years in prison. Yet, driven by the conviction that
the greatest form of love and patriotism is criticism, she
continues to write, undaunted and with eyes wide open. I Love
Russia stitches together reportage from the past 15 years with
personal essays, assembling a kaleidoscopic narrative that
Kostyuchenko understands may be the last thing she'll publish for a
long time-perhaps ever. She writes because the threat of Putin's
Russia extends beyond herself, beyond Crimea, and beyond Ukraine.
We fail to understand it at our own peril.
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