Gleb Maiski moves to the big city to become a journalist—but his life unravels when four coworkers claim they’re each pregnant with his child. No one will guess the ending.
This collection is like an explosive chronicle of the
empire’s decline from within. The author is a journalist
who fled Russia for Ukraine back in 2007, when the Putin
regime was only beginning to gain momentum. His texts
are prophetic: even then, he warned of what has now
become a hellish reality.
Although these essays were previously published—
mainly on the informational and analytical portal
Zaxid.net—they have not lost their relevance and have
effectively become a document of the era. Russian
aggression, moral corruption, an indifferent West, the
future of Ukraine and Europe—all are explored in these
writings, which read like predictions of disaster. It is a
document of the epoch: war, fear, propaganda, and the
staggering cost of resistance.
Most importantly, these texts provide a clear and
alarming vision of what Russia will look like in the near
future.
Oleksandr Kosvintsev
Ein Reporter mit einer Leidenschaft für investigative Recherchen. Ich arbeitete für Medien in Kemerowo, Moskau, Kiew und Lwiw. Autor des Romans „Der Schmutzgräber“, ein Roman über die schmutzigen Geheimnisse von Ärzten, sowie zahlreicher publizistischer Texte. Zurzeit lebe ich in Berlin.
Empire's Decline Prophetic Warnings Russian Aggression Moral Decay Indifferent West Cost of Resistance Future of Russia