Italian-French cartoonist Igor Tuveri aka Igort is to be counted among the most inventive representatives of the European auteur comic. He became internationally known in 2002 with his moody comic noir Cinque è il numero perfetto (»5 is the perfect number «). In 2008/2009 Igort spent several months in the Ukraine. He spoke with witnesses of the Stalinist era and processed their accounts into an evocative episodic documentary, mixing  past and current events. 

Igort: Berichte aus der Ukraine

Among other things, Les Cahiers ukrainiens (Reports from the Ukraine/ Berichte aus der Ukraine), deals with eye-witness reports of the Holomodor genocide. The second episode of Igort´s Soviet documentation, Les Cahiers russes (Reports from Russia / Berichte aus Russland) revolves around the preliminary events leading up to the murder of Russian journalist and human rights activist, Anna Politkovskaïa.

Igort: Les Cahiers russes