Babchenko Can Write "Afterlife"

No writer has had such an experience before.

Babchenko can write "Afterlife". It's a unique experience when you live while everyone around believes that you're dead. You can observe the reaction of your friends, neighbors, acquaintances. You see how ones gloat, others keep silence not to have troubles, and the rest did not want to waste their time. Some people empathize and race to rescue the family, and some people leave their bags and cross a half of the world to see him for the last time... And suddenly you realize who is an enemy, who is a friend, who is a fellow passenger, who is indifferent, who is a coward, and who is your really loved one. And here comes the climax - the funeral is canceled and you are alive again. And that's how your life changes now. You are alive, but you are born again as a man who was able to swim again across the river of Death, and endowed with all the wisdom a man who knows his day and his hour receives. No writer has had such an experience before; it will be a bestseller.

It was impressive when one of friends invited the family of Arkady in Italy for a while. And Father Sergius, the chaplain of the 30th Mechanized Brigade, has already agreed to organize the funeral in the Mikhailovsky Cathedral.

Today I have had an interview with Adam Osmayev, there are traces of three gunshot wounds on his body. He holds his head high. He had no emotions about the news that Arkady was alive. After all, his Amina cannot rise, the Russian killer is being tried now, and the group who executed Amina is wanted. There is not joy, only the thaought that you're alive... The miracle is that you're alive, the life still takes the floor. The front line lies everywhere our enemy and draw it.

I can't describe what I feel after a sleepless night near the Babchenko's house, dozens of talks, tears of friends, dozens of articles and a couple of litres of coffee.

Yuri Butusov, Facebook