Russian student Maria Butina was arrested in Washington in July 2018 on charges of working as a foreign agent in the U.S. without registration. A year and a half in prison, four months in solitary confinement, torture, more than 50 hours of interrogations in a concrete bunker, 1,200 pages of encrypted prison diary notes that were taken out to Russia after she was released. The story was covered by media outlets around the world, but no one could ever answer the question: who exactly is Maria Butina—criminal or victim?
In her autobiographical audiobook, Maria finally tells the whole truth. In front of you is absolutely unique material—a reconstructed prison diary and the most unbelievable story of a Russian prisoner in the United States, written by her herself.
How to survive in the extreme conditions of prison—especially in a foreign country? What helped Maria in solitary confinement? How did she see the prisoners of the United States, and how did she manage to win their trust and even gain their support? And finally, who is Maria Butina really?