In July 2009, Lana Estemirova was fifteen years old. She recently returned to Grozny after a long separation from her mother, the famous human rights activist Natalya Estemirova, who sent her daughter to live with relatives so as not to expose her to danger. On July 15, unknown persons kidnapped Natalya near her home, took her to the border with Ingushetia and killed her with several shots in the chest and head. In 2025, her daughter Lana, who had been living abroad for a long time at that time, wrote a book in English - “Please Live: The Chechen Wars, My Mother and Me.” These are memories of childhood and adolescence in Chechnya in the nineties and early 2000s, about the cleansing, torture, human rights violations and ruins that served as the backdrop for this childhood, and also about a selfless and fearless mother who tried at all costs to build a small island of normality for the two of them. A year later, the Meduza publishing house releases Please Live in Russian.