War in the Cherry Garden

“War in the Cherry Orchard” by Onur Güzal­tan is a publicistic and at the same time very poetic report about the life of modern Russia, about the conduct of the special military operation, and about how our country is moving into yet another historical and cultural maelstrom—dragging half the planet along with it, yet, as it goes with the current, still trying to reshape the established world order. In the book, of interest are not only the conversations between the foreign writer and our politicians, philosophers, and spiritual figures, or lyrical digressions during trips to Donbas, but also a fundamentally different perspective from the outside. If you want to see Russia through a Turkish lens, then you need to read this book.