I Love Russia av Elena Kostyuchenko

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<p><b>**WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2024**<br><br>To be a journalist is to tell the truth. Here is Russia as it really is.</b><br><br><b>''Important ... this is the Russia we need to understand''</b> TIMOTHY SNYDER<br><b>''A haunting book of rare courage''</b> CLARISSA WARD<br><b>''Read this book'' </b>SVETLANA ALEXIVICH<br><br>Part memoir, part collection of Elena Kostyuchenko¿s fearless reporting, <i>I Love Russia</i> introduces us to places we¿ve never seen and to people who¿ve been systematically, brutally erased from view by Putin¿s regime. We enter secretive state-run facilities for disabled people, abandoned buildings haunted by suicide and violence, and a schoolyard marked by unacknowledged massacre. We meet village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer provinces, and patients and doctors on a Ukrainian maternity ward.<br><br>The result is a singular, uncompromising, and profoundly humane portrait of a nation ¿ and of an extraordinary woman who ref