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A review by sophieboddington
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko
5.0
"politics has eaten our children alive."
disclaimer for those with poor media literacy: just because the book is called 'I Love Russia', does not mean this book is in any way attempting to gloss over Russia's current war crimes in Ukraine or elsewhere.
in fact, Elena Kostyuchenko does quite the opposite: these collected writings are incredibly brave, described with profound clarity and sensitivity. she exposes the deep corruption in all levels of Putin's regime from the state-run media to the military industrial complex, encountering extreme hostility from officials and people of all levels as she persevered in her journalistic integrity. travelling to multiple regions in Ukraine including the thickest fighting in Donbas as well as sites of terrorist and ecological atrocities such as Beslan and Norilsk, Kostyuchenko document the brutal actions of Russian soldiers and politicians with fearless honesty. these are not the actions of a Russian-glorifying propagandist. the users who flooded the book with negative reviews before it was even published would do well to consider this.
while extremely bleak reading, I applaud Elena Kostyuchenko's courage in writing 'I Love Russia', and highly recommend reading for any wishing to understand the nation's current state of affairs.
disclaimer for those with poor media literacy: just because the book is called 'I Love Russia', does not mean this book is in any way attempting to gloss over Russia's current war crimes in Ukraine or elsewhere.
in fact, Elena Kostyuchenko does quite the opposite: these collected writings are incredibly brave, described with profound clarity and sensitivity. she exposes the deep corruption in all levels of Putin's regime from the state-run media to the military industrial complex, encountering extreme hostility from officials and people of all levels as she persevered in her journalistic integrity. travelling to multiple regions in Ukraine including the thickest fighting in Donbas as well as sites of terrorist and ecological atrocities such as Beslan and Norilsk, Kostyuchenko document the brutal actions of Russian soldiers and politicians with fearless honesty. these are not the actions of a Russian-glorifying propagandist. the users who flooded the book with negative reviews before it was even published would do well to consider this.
while extremely bleak reading, I applaud Elena Kostyuchenko's courage in writing 'I Love Russia', and highly recommend reading for any wishing to understand the nation's current state of affairs.