Encounters in Russia: Gas-masks, scoops and setbacks.
16 February 2022“It’s been announced in Moscow that President Mikhail Gorbachev has become ill,” said the radio on the hotel reception desk. I immediately realised this was some sort of Soviet-speak for saying the Soviet leader was either already dead or was being removed – in a coup. I bemoaned my fate — marooned in another country. […]