I Love Russia: Reporting From a Lost Country in the process crafting a

in the process crafting a moving and unforgettable story of perseverance

she silently tolerates office politics and the absurdities of Korean bureaucracy

But all her efforts to endure her superiors and the semi-hostile work environment they create are upended when a new intern

inter-generational trauma and how surface appearances often obscure a deeper truth

Alejandra no longer knows who she is

I Love Russia: Reporting From a Lost Country in the process crafting aHardcover, remaindered copy To be a journalist is to tell the truth. I Love Russia is Elena Kostyuchenkos unrelenting attempt to document her country 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. Here is Russia as it is, not as we imagine it. The result is a singular portrait