Bookcover: Ian Buruma - Bad Elements

"I think we live in such a banality of horrors, horrors
surround us, so a real reportage is a kind of break through
this banality. When we speak about any situation, be it
Chechnya or something else, we speak not only about this
concrete situation but also about something of our deeper human
nature."Svetlana Alexievitch (jury member 2003, 2004 & 2005)