Lana Estemirova, the daughter of murdered Chechen human rights activist Natalia Estemirova, has announced the publication of a book about her, "Please Live." The girl was only 15 years old when her mother was kidnapped and killed.

"I made this promise on my mother's grave when I was 18 - that I had to tell her story. More than ten years later, I can say: "Yes, I have fulfilled this promise and my duty as a daughter to my mother," Lana said in an interview with the British newspaper The Guardian.

The title "Please Live" refers to one of the many text messages the daughter sent to her mother after she went missing, before news of her murder.

The book's blurb says it is a guide to Chechnya's bloody history, as well as "a coming-of-age memoir that details both the stifling restrictions and the warmth of childhood in traditional Chechen culture against a backdrop of war and terror."

After Natalia's murder, her former colleagues helped Lana move to the UK, where she was studying. The girl got married and gave birth to a daughter, whom she named after her mother.

Natalia Estemirova investigated high-profile cases of kidnapping, torture and extrajudicial executions in Chechnya. On 15 July 2009, she was kidnapped near her home in Grozny. Her body was found the same day in Ingushetia, near the village of Gazi-Yurt. The people who ordered and carried out the murder have still not been found. The murdered woman's sister, Svetlana Estemirova, filed a lawsuit against Russia with the ECHR in 2011. At the end of August 2021, the European Court of Human Rights issued a verdict on the lack of a proper investigation.