“Again the well-worn saddle creaks, And the wind chills an old wound; Monsieur, where in the name of hell have you wound up? Can it be you can’t afford a bit of calm?” After nearly four years, I am leaving The Moscow News. Now that our owner, the RIA Novosti agency, has been liquidated, theContinue reading “Goodbye to The Moscow News: on riding off into the sunset yet again”
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It gets personal: a dispatch from the Buguruslan Central City Hospital
As a journalist, I frequently write about both problems and breakthroughs in Russian medicine. I write about the need for the humanization of Russian medical culture following decades of Soviet rule in particular. I also write about funding problems. Every once in a while, this topic gets personal – extremely, painfully personal. My mother-in-law, TatianaContinue reading “It gets personal: a dispatch from the Buguruslan Central City Hospital”
A non-statement on what is happening to RIA Novosti
In case you haven’t heard, RIA Novosti, the owner of The Moscow News, the paper that was the original reason for my move to Russia – the paper I currently run, that is – is being liquidated by presidential decree. And RIA, in my totally biased opinion, is not just the biggest Russian news agencyContinue reading “A non-statement on what is happening to RIA Novosti”
Young women, stay away from Hugo Schwyzer
Older women too. Middle-aged women, this is about you as well. Men of all ages. Children. Other intelligent life-forms out there. Everyone, just stay away from Hugo Schwyzer, OK? Took me long enough to see what a dangerous, unhinged man he is, but I’ve finally seen it. I sincerely apologize to those of you whoContinue reading “Young women, stay away from Hugo Schwyzer”
Watching Boston in sadness
Watching the manhunt unfold on Twitter, I’m struck by the fact that I have nothing clever to say. When I first heard that a policeman had been shot at MIT, there was no impulse to tie it to the marathon bombings. I thought these guys would be smarter, somehow, and that they would have leftContinue reading “Watching Boston in sadness”
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