Elena Kostyuchenko

Blending memoir with frontline reportage, this is an intimate and fearless portrait of contemporary Russia by one of Russia's most prominent independent journalists. WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2024 To be a journalist is to tell the truth. Here is Russia as it really is. Important ... this is the Russia we need to understand — TIMOTHY SNYDER...

Blending personal memoir with frontline reportage, this is an intimate and fearless portrait of contemporary Russia by one of Russia's most prominent independent journalists. 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...