This book is available in Russian

To order the book in English, please follow the link: I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country

'My Favorite Country' is a book by Russian journalist and former special correspondent for Novaya Gazeta Elena Kostyuchenko.

It's called 'My Favorite Country' and it tells the story of Russia's slow slide into war.

Kostyuchenko is one of Russia's most famous journalists. During the first weeks of the full-scale Russian invasion of 2022, she worked in Ukraine and published several texts for Novaya Gazeta that became important evidence of the war and the crimes committed by the Russian military. During the war, Elena Kostyuchenko was forced to leave Russia for Germany. Later, already on the territory of the FRG, they apparently tried to poison her.