On Either Side of the Barbed Wire
(NEWLY RELEASED)

This is a conversation between a journalist Mustafa Nayyem and Yuri Lutsenko that has taken place throughout July 2013, just after the politician was released from prison.
The book is about tête-à-tête meetings with Yanukovych, Yulia Tymoshenko, Victor Yushchenko, a “survival school” among the “criminal lords” and retarded cops. Not only is Yuri Lutsenko a wonderful speaker, he is as well a brilliant storyteller. His clear memory keeps the tiniest details of conversations and observations. Everything is here – from cracker-barrel humor to the tenderest revelations.
This is one of the most explicit books about the political and prison “Augean stables” of Ukraine. This is the conversation capable of being a novella. (Ivan Malkovych)