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I Love Russia
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country | Elena Kostyuchenko
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From a courageous young reporter, an unprecedented and intimate portrait of Russia that is also a cri de coeur for journalism that opposes the global turn towards authoritarianism To be a journalist is to tell the truth. I Love Russia (…more)
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Journalist Kostyuchenko is also a lesbian, apparently giving her government multiple reasons to target her. Yet here she is unafraid to show what truly happens on the ground in Russia while showing a deep love for her country and its people. This is searing and tough to read but excellent.

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Some of the most unflinching writing I‘ve ever read. And that last line is a gut punch. (Pictured my old метро stop)

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yunotju
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made me realise the heart of coutry where i grew up

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charl08
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All the stars for this one.

Journalism from inside Russia, from environmental disasters, corruption and the Beslan massacre, denial id LGBT+ rights, ongoing state-sanctioned incarceration of mental health patients, the abandonment of rural communities, failures in supporting indigenous communities, and of course Ukraine.

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They ask. Are you ready? Of course I am.

But really, it is impossible to be ready for being the fascists, I was not ready for this at all.

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charl08

If I read this in fiction, I'd think it heightened for the sake of satire.

"Norilsk is like a sanctuary for corruption. They brazenly took their waste which they're supposed to dispose of and not only sold it off but got money for it out of the city budget! I mean, goddamn! None of the oversight agencies, no officials could now try and say. Oh, we didn't know this was happening"....

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The chest of Kalashnikovo's Lenin bears a welding scar. A month ago, some guy tried to sell the leader for scrap.

"He tried to saw off the top half of the statue and it fell down on him," a tipsy woman named Alena explains, holding her two-year-old niece on her hip.

charl08 Original Photo via Unsplash by Daniil Onischenko. 1y
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