Writer and journalist. He was drafted from Law Institute and sent to Chechnya after only some elementary training. On discharge he finished his education and wrote a cycle of graphic stories about his war experiences so as "to get the war out of my system". The result was La guerra más cruel (2008), A Soldier's War in Chechnya in English, both a fictionalized documentary and narrative non-fiction, which consists of a cycle of first-hand accounts of the Chechnya campaign. The stories are united by the same characters, the same place and time. Winner of the Debut Prize, A Soldier's War in Chechnya came out in Russian in 2006, has already been translated into six languages and will be published in Spain this autumn.
He is currently working as a columnist on the opposition paper Novaya Gazeta.
http://www.cafebabel.com/eng/article/24042/arkady-babchenko-russia-is-the-germany-of-1934.html
