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Elena Kostyuchenko was born in Yaroslavl, Russia in 1987. She began working as a journalist when she was 15, and spent 17 years reporting for Novaya Gazeta, Russia's last major independent newspaper until it was shut down in the spring of 2022 in response to her reporting from Ukraine. She is the author of two books published in Russian, Unwanted on Probation and We Have to Live Here, and the recipient of the European Press Prize, the Gerd Bucerius Award, and the Paul Klebnikov Prize.
Brilliant and immersive ... reportage at its brave and luminous best * Luke Harding, Observer * Fearless reporting… shocking and moving… This gritting insider’s take on Russia will prove more helpful than the welter of book by western experts when it comes to countering Putin’s disinformation * Sunday Times, *Book of the Week* * Elena Kostyuchenko is an important guide to the twenty-first century. The Russia she recounts here is the Russia we need to understand * Timothy Snyder * Elena's bravery and reportage are astonishing - the Russia we never see, every page another insight into life under Putin * Christina Lamb, author of Our Bodies, Their Battlefields * A fascinating, frightening, compulsively readable chronicle of life in Putin's Russia. As a girl, Elena Kostyuchenko wanted to believe in her country; as a journalist she has dedicated her life to exposing its darkness. Her prose is haunting, edgy, searing. Her stories are unforgettable, and deeply important * Carol Off, author of All We Leave Behind *
