Some of the most unflinching writing I‘ve ever read. And that last line is a gut punch. (Pictured my old метро stop)
Some of the most unflinching writing I‘ve ever read. And that last line is a gut punch. (Pictured my old метро stop)
made me realise the heart of coutry where i grew up
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.
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.
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"....
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.