Ant in a Glass Jar

Ant in a Glass Jar: Chechen Diaries 1994–2004
AuthorPolina Zherebtsova
LanguageRussian
SubjectFirst Chechen War, Second Chechen War
GenreAutobiography, diary
PublisherАСТ: CORPUS
Publication date
2014
Publication placeRussia
Pages608
ISBN978-5-17-083653-6

Ant in a Glass Jar: Chechen Diaries 1994–2004 (Russian: "Муравей в стеклянной банке. Чеченские дневники 1994–2004" is a 2014 documentary book that is an author's diary about the years spent in Chechnya from 1994 until 2004.[1] It was written by Polina Zherebtsova, while she was 9–19 years old.[2]

In 2013, Polina has received a political asylum in Finland.

picture, 1995
House

Presentation of the book took place in the center of the Andrei Sakharov 30.05.2014.[3]

Politkovskaya described war as a journalist from the outside in. Polina Zherebtsova writes about war from inside the heart of darkness. Der Spiegel №10 /2015.[4]

  1. ^ Муравей в стеклянной банке. Чеченские дневники 1994–2004 гг.
  2. ^ Polina Zherebtsova on the diary she kept as a child during the Chechen war. ВВС on YouTube
  3. ^ Presentation of the book in the Sakharov Center
  4. ^ Der Spiegel №10 /2015 http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-132040417.html