Polina Zherebtsova – journalist, finalist of the Prize named after. Andrey Sakharov; Born in 1985 in Grozny, her childhood and youth were spent amid bombs and war devastation. Polina’s first book “Ant in a Glass Jar. Chechen diaries 1994–2004.” caused a huge resonance all over the world. “A Thin Silver Thread” is no longer just a document, but a powerful prose whose characters tell their story: how to preserve love and the will to live amid the horrors of war, how to defeat an evil fairy tale without breaking the thin silver thread , connecting soul and body. The stories have been translated into Ukrainian, Finnish and German.