On 15 March 2022, Elena Kostioukovitch made an interview with Sara Piselli (Rai Radio 1) about the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on Russian dissidents.
On 25 July 2022, Elena Kostioukovitch's book "Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin" was featured in an article written by Elio Cappuccio for Huffington Post Italy.
In this article celebrating 90 years' anniversary since the birth of Umberto Eco, Anna Yamploskaya highlights Elena Kostioukovitch's important contribution to Eco's literary fortunes in Russia. What's his legacy?
On 28 September 2021, a very insightful essay by Elena Kostioukovitch about food in Umberto Eco's novels and detective books was published on Arzamas. Click to read!
On 9 August 2020, Elena Kostioukovitch was interviewed by Magdalena Maksimiuk for the Polish magazine kukbuk.pl, after the Polish edition of "Why Italians love to talk about food?" came out.
On 22 January 2018, Elena Kostioukovitch was interviewed by Olga Uvarova for the Russian website "Papmambuk". In this conversation, she focused on the topic of translation, of children's books in particular.
On 7 October 2017 Elena Kostioukovitch participated in an interview, in which also Sergio Romano and Evgeny Utkin took part, for the radio program "Moby Dick" on the Swiss Radio RSI LA 2. The topic was the Russian Revolution.
Elena Kostioukovitch made an interview for site "24tv.ua", explaining what her travel to Kiev meant for her, what her generation has been deprived of by the Sovietic repression machine and why we can never forget about it.
Elena Kostioukovitch is Russian and she not only translated Umberto Eco's novels into her language. She is also the author of "Why Italians Love to Talk About Food", a book whose foreword has been written with pleasure by Umberto Eco himself.
Able to laugh even about his own funniness, Umberto Eco passed away just in time - suggests the translator of his works, author of this text - to avoid the troubles of senility; he leaves us a work which is truly indispensable.
The Russian translator and author of her own literary work, took her literary language from the great Italian writers; the advice given to her by Umberto Eco...
