Moscow Calling: Memoirs Of A Foreign Correspondent
by Angus Roxburgh /
2017 / English / EPUB
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In the course of the past 45 years, Angus Roxburgh has translated
Tolstoy, met three successive Russian presidents and been jinxed by
a Siberian shaman. He has come under fire in war zones and been
arrested by Chechen thugs. He was wooed by the KGB, who then
decided he would make a lousy spy and expelled him from the
country.In Moscow Calling Roxburgh presents his Russia - not the
Russia of news reports, but a quirky, crazy, exasperating,
beautiful, tumultuous world that in forty years has changed
completely, and yet not at all. From the dark, fearful days of
communism and his adventures as a correspondent as the Soviet Union
collapsed into chaos, to his frustrating work as a media consultant
in Putin's Kremlin, this is a unique,fascinating and often
hilarious insight into a country that today, more than ever, is of
global political significance.
In the course of the past 45 years, Angus Roxburgh has translated
Tolstoy, met three successive Russian presidents and been jinxed by
a Siberian shaman. He has come under fire in war zones and been
arrested by Chechen thugs. He was wooed by the KGB, who then
decided he would make a lousy spy and expelled him from the
country.In Moscow Calling Roxburgh presents his Russia - not the
Russia of news reports, but a quirky, crazy, exasperating,
beautiful, tumultuous world that in forty years has changed
completely, and yet not at all. From the dark, fearful days of
communism and his adventures as a correspondent as the Soviet Union
collapsed into chaos, to his frustrating work as a media consultant
in Putin's Kremlin, this is a unique,fascinating and often
hilarious insight into a country that today, more than ever, is of
global political significance.
