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The trouble with loving Russia: Evan Gershkovich's memoir seeks sentimentality in a lost country

By the end of his pre-trial detention at Moscow's infamous Lefortovo Prison, American journalist Evan Gershkovich had developed a curious rapport with the FSB investigator tasked with proving he was a spy. "Most people break after four months or so, but you're still holding strong — a year in," the investigator told him, and the two raised their cigarettes in a toast to "having tried to find common ground." Gershkovich writes about many such moments in "This Cursed Beautiful Land: A Russian-Am

“This Cursed Beautiful Land” by Gershkovich, and charred trees in Voronezh, Russia, on Aug. 1, 2010.

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Rosneft is Russia's state-controlled oil company and one of the world's largest petroleum producers, with headquarters in Moscow and operations across multiple countries. The company, majority-owned by the Russian government since 2004, controls significant oil and gas reserves and refining capacity that generate revenue supporting Russia's war economy. Western sanctions imposed after Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022 have targeted Rosneft's international operations.

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