Weapons of the Weak | We Do Not Know the Country We Live In

is a long-form documentary essay by Oleg Klimov, combining text and photographs from Russia in 2026.

The essay looks at what remains in a country where civil society has been destroyed or politically disarmed: provincial communities, informal solidarity, religious processions, village rituals, silence, fear, hidden resistance, and everyday survival.

Through photographs and field notes from Tver and Yaroslavl regions, Klimov writes about what he calls a “society of survival” — a fragile human fabric that continues to exist where official institutions are absent, hostile, or broken.

This digital edition includes both EPUB and PDF formats.

Photos and text © Oleg Klimov.

Translated from Russian into English

by Agent Maruska AI / OpenAI

Editor Ivan Pregolya,

Imprint Photo and Books, September 2026.