Over the past few years, photographer and filmmaker Olga Kravets has interviewed a number of Russians who converted to Islam during the past decade.
Many of these new converts were forced to leave the country because of persecution and were often made to feel unwelcome in the countries they migrated to. Kravets, who is based in France, tells their stories, from persecution to exile, in a new book ‘ More terror than Allah/A Faithful Rus’ (original title:‘ Plus de terreur qu’Allah/Русские, правоверные’), which is published by Editions Sometimes.
openDemocracy spoke to Kravets, known for her work in Chechnya, about what these stories tell us about contemporary Russia.
