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'Will someone pay for the spilled blood? No. Nobody.' Mikhail
Bulgakov wrote these words in Kiev during the turmoil of the
Russian Civil War. Since then Ukrainian borders have shifted
constantly and its people have suffered numerous military foreign
interventions that have left them with nothing. As a state, Ukraine
exists only since 1991 and what it was before is controversial
among its people as well as its European neighbours. Writing in a
simple and vivid way, Jens Muhling narrates his encounters with
nationalists and old Communists, Crimean Tatars and Cossacks,
smugglers, archaeologists and soldiers, all of whose views could
hardly be more different. Black Earth connects all these stories to
convey an unconventional and unfiltered view of Ukraine - a country
at the crossroads of Europe and Asia and the centre of countless
conflicts of opinion.
Ten years ago journalist Jens Muhling met Juri, a Russian
television producer whose job it was to sell stories to TV stations
in Germany but who always maintained that 'The true stories are
more unbelievable than anything I could invent.' Ever since, Jens
Muhling has been travelling through Russia in search of stories
that appear too unbelievable to be true: a hermit from the Taiga
who only recently found out that there was a world beyond the
woods, a priest who ventures into the exclusion zone around
Chernobyl to preach to those that stubbornly remain there, and many
more. Jens Muhling shows us a country whose customs,
contradictions, absurdities and attractions are still largely
unknown beyond its borders.
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