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I Love Russia
- Reporting from a Lost Country
- Narrated by: Tiana Yarik
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
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Summary
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To be a journalist is to tell the truth. To be patriotic is to be critical, honest and fearless.
I Love Russia takes us to places that non-Russians have never seen and brings us voices we have never heard. It is Elena Kostyuchenko’s courageous attempt to document Russia as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally 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.
At once uncompromising and deeply humane, it stitches reportage and personal essays into a kaleidoscopic, often other-worldly journey. Here is Russia as it is, not as we imagine it.
I Love Russia may be the last work from her homeland Kostyuchenko will publish for a long time – perhaps ever. She writes driven by the conviction that the greatest form of love and patriotism is criticism. And because the threat of Putin’s Russia extends beyond herself, beyond Crimea, and beyond Ukraine.
This is a singular portrait of a nation, and of a woman who refuses to be silenced.
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- Miss_Nessie
- 01-05-24
Problems with pacing, very annoying performance
Liked the description of state of affairs across Russia in time, but the pace was off. Lots of descriptions but no guiding voice throughout. Just telling people what she saw with very little context or opinions. I've expected much more.
The performance is just awful, so slow, the accent is weird and annoying. As a person who speaks Russian and lived in Russia for many years, I am familiar with Russian speakers' accents in English, but I would have preferred British narrator so that the narration does not detract from a text itself.
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- Alun Flynn
- 28-12-23
The shocking approach to people with learning difficulties in Russia
A detailed shocking analysis of life in Russia for most people but especially those with learning difficulties. Lack of humanity is revealed. The system has allowed this to happen despite international knowledge of equal rights.
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