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Goodbye to Russia: A Personal Reckoning from the Ruins of War
In 2021, BBC Foreign Correspondent Sarah Rainsford set out to write a book about how Russians who dared to think differently from the Putin regime were being labelled as enemies and traitors. It was to chart Russia’s slide from democracy and warn of where the crushing of liberties could lead. She had experienced something of that herself when she was expelled from Moscow as a supposed ‘security threat.’
Then, in February 2022, Putin began his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, moving faster than her worst fears. The culmination of many years of on-the-ground reporting, Goodbye to Russia shines a light on the attacks on freedom that Sarah has witnessed and paints an intimate portrait of the individuals who have tried to resist.
