While reporting for "Pravda", she visited in 2002 Chechnya in the Russian North Caucasus. After meeting with Chechens, and earlier, in 2001, Dagestani people, she wrote a documentary about suicide bombers "Brides of Allah". Yuzik started to work on the book while on assignment in Dagestan in 2001, and read there in a local edition of all-Russia newspaper "Moskovskij Komsomolets" about Aiza Gazuyeva, a young Chechen woman who blew herself up near a military office in the Chechen town of Urus-Martan; the woman was the same age as Yuzik, which shocked her. Later the Moscow theater hostage crisis happened in 2002, when dozens of viewers of the musical "Nord-Ost" in a Moscow cultural center were killed. This motivated her to travel to North Caucasus to search for material for the book. "Brides of Allah" were published in 2003. It was a success, especially outside Russia, and was translated into Japanese and other languages. Yuzik left "Pravda" in 2003. She said, the newspaper management "asked her to leave", so she thought her departure was somehow connected with her book.