I Love Russia: Reporting From a Lost Country, with Elena Kostyuchenko
2023
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25m
In this video podcast award winning Russian journalist Elena Kostyuchenko speaks to Keith Gessen about the themes of her new book 'I Love Russia'. They discuss places that non-Russians have never seen and voices that are rarely heard. The book is Kostyuchenko’s courageous attempt to document Russia as experienced by those whom it systematically erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer provinces, patients and doctors at a Ukrainian maternity ward, and reporters like herself.
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