Prison diary

Russian student Maria Butina was arrested in Washington in July 2018 on charges of a foreign agent in the United States without registration. A year and a half prison, four months of single cameras and torture, more than 50 hours of interrogations in a concrete bunker, 1,200 pages of encrypted records of prison diaries that were taken to Russia after release. The media of the whole world wrote about this story, but no one could answer the question, who is Maria Butina really - a criminal or a victim?

in her autobiographical book, Maria finally told the whole Truth. Here is an absolutely unique material - a restored prison diary and the most incredible story of the Russian prisoner in the United States, written by her itself.

How to survive in extreme conditions of prison, and even being in a foreign country? What saved Mary in single cameras? How did she see the prisoners of the United States and how did she manage to gain confidence and even get support? And who is Maria Butina really?