A 9-year-old Russian girl lived in Grozny. The war has begun. The diaries of Polina Zherebtsova are a stunning human document, translated into many European ...

Diaries are my life. I have been teaching them since I was 9 years old, since I found an old notebook of my grandfather, a journalist and filmmaker, in the c...

Zherebtsova was born and raised in Grozny. Her diaries cover childhood, adolescence and youth, which included three Chechen wars. Studying, falling in love f...

Polina Zherebtsova – journalist, finalist of the Prize named after. Andrey Sakharov; Born in 1985 in Grozny, her childhood and youth were spent amid bombs an...

About the author | Polina Zherebtsova was born on March 20, 1985 in Grozny, Chechen Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Her childhood and youth included tw...

This Report of mine is for everyone who studies history. Many argue: was there a genocide of Russians in Chechnya? In what years? Human rights activists see ...

“The 45th Parallel” is a novel created on the basis of documentary diaries from 2005–2006. “We (my mother and I) came from a strict Muslim world, as if we ar...