Elena Kostyuchenko and Miquel Cabal

Her reports about present-day Russia chronicle the experiences of people who are silenced and abandoned by the system—young people, members of the LGBTIQ+ community, people in isolated villages—as well as shedding light on conditions in orphanages, environmental crimes, police corruption, and more. In I Love Russia, she unearths and presents a hidden country by interweaving autobiographical accounts with fifteen years of journalistic reports in Nóvaia Gazeta, Russia’s last free daily, which was shut down in retaliation because of her criticism of the army. Since her life has been threatened because of her journalism, Elena Kostyuchenko now lives in exile.

In this conversation with Miquel Cabal, and by means of journalism committed to telling the truth, Elena Kostyuchenko offers a choral account of today’s Russia, and considers the possibilities of working as a journalist under the Putin regime.

As part of her visit to the CCCB, on Wednesday the 19th at 12 PM, she will participate in the meeting Looking at Russia Today, in conversation with other expert voices.