★English,Gernman,Dutch,Czech,Italian, Hungarian,Swedish, Finish, Estonian, Latvian rights sold!
★24. Take my grief away telling the stories that started on February 24, in 24 voices and 24 chapters, the book is tentatively and symbolically named 24, taken down and recorded by one of the best independent journalists in Russia, Katerina Gordeeva.
★This is a reportage and a book of interviews with an accompanying literary text, made by a prominent journalist and writer Katerina Gordeeva, probably the most famous independent journalist in modern Russia, awarded the Anna Politkovskaya International Journalism Prize in August of 2022, and named as one of the top 10 most influential independent journalists in Russia.
★Katerina spent months commuting between refugee centers in Russia and Europe, also visiting Ukraine, and the result was a 3,5-hours long documentary, HUMANS AT WAR, shown on her own You-Tube channel, and viewed by 2,5 million viewers. The material that Gordeeva gathered while making the film, but left out from the final cut, has been adapted for the book.
★With this book, Katerina succeeded in collecting and telling life stories and dramas of people of polar views. It is a first-person account of their lives ruined in the most unthinkable way, yet there are 24 stories, each unique in its juxtaposition to the other.
★Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, who had read parts of the book, has agreed to endorse the book with a cover blurb, while another Nobel-prize laureate, Dmitry Muratov, as well as Ludmilla Ulitskaya offered to write a short foreword/afterword, having recognized the importance of this work.
★The book will be completed by the end of October.
★English and French samples are available.

“In the darkest of times, in the midst of it all, a journalist has one single task: to document everything that is happening. Eyewitnesses and their stories will be of value one day soon, so the new history books will not have to lie about what people saw with their eyes” - says Katerina Gordeeva - the only journalist in the whole world, who has been to places inaccessible to a public eye, in Europe, Russia and more, and spoke to refugees living there in temporary camps.
Katerina’s book reflects 140 hours of interviews, tens of thousands of kilometres spent on the road, but most importantly - grief that can not be measured. In this book you will find 24 stories, written in the first person, chilling narrative and impartial evidence of eyewitnesses.
The people who have become the main characters in this book often have polar views on politics and life in general. But this war made neither of them happy nor it has given them the freedom the seek. The war only brought destruction, misfortune, and death. It has spread feud and hate.
“24. Take my grief away” - is a true voice of people not distorted by propaganda, people, whose lives have become a sacrifice to political ambitions and can never be restored.
24 stories, 24 lives destructed to their core on the 24th of February 2022. 24 people hoping that the good will win against the evil and where each and every one of them has a story to tell.
And one journalist - listening, recording, not interrupting for even the smallest of remarks.
This world has enough provocation and fakes. It is time to slow down and simply listen to the voice of a human.”

Katerina Gordeeva
Katerina Gordeeva is one of the most famous independent journalists from Russia. Until 2012, she worked as a TV reporter for the federal television channel NTV. During her time at NTV, she reported as a war correspondent from the frontlines of Chechnya, Afghanistan, and Iraq, but later resigned from the channel due to a disagreement with their program agenda.
She left Moscow out of protest in 2014, after Russia’s remorseless annexation of Crimea and seizure of part of Eastern Ukraine. In 2020, she created her own You-Tube channel, which today has more than 1.3 million subscribers.
To make her documentary film Humans At War Katerina Gordeeva travelled to dozens of refugee shelters in both Europe and Russia. She collected first account interviews of people with opposing views about their experiences and how the war had drastically changed their lives. This three-hour testimonial film has been viewed by more than 2.5 million people.
In the summer of 2022, Gordeeva was named as one of the top 10 most influential independent journalists in Russia. She is a five-time winner of the only independent professional award in Russia, the Redcollegia. Gordeeva was awarded the Anna Politkovskaya International Journalism Prize in August of 2022, an award that truly honors her commitment to independent journalism.
Katerina continues everyday to devote her integrity to unbiased journalism in these very challenging times.