RUSSIA
January/February 2010
As part of his research for this month's Dispatch from Siberia, Ben Judah interviewed Anton Surikov, a member of Russian military intelligence. It was Surikov's last interview for the western media - he died two months later in mysterious circumstances
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
January/February 2010
‘When I finally reached Magadan, I hunted for days for a survivor. "I'm sorry, they are all dead," was the refrain. With male life-expectancy in Russia a mere 58, I should not have been surprised, but I was devastated’
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
December 2009
‘Turning Russia around to support sanctions against Iran would be a great achievement. But will it happen?’
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
December 2009
‘Read what you like into the failure of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 30 years ago this month, but none of its echoes bodes well for us’
Like this article? Share, save or print using the icons below
Russia
More content
- Don't Write off America
- A Macabre New Vision of Spain
- Who Are the Masters Now?
- Hero Worship
- It Must be those Secret Agents of Zion
- A Pretence of Progress
- Caucasus: Diary, August-September, 2008
- Serious Music for Serious Times
- A Comrade to Fascism
- China's Rural Nightmare
- Mozart and the Mob
- Yes We Keynes!
- All the Nice Girls Love a Poet
- Heart of Bloomsbury
- Christianity, Secularisation and Islam
- How Bloody was Mary?
- Voluntary Coercion
- Men Behaving Badly
- His Master's Angry Voice
- Writers, Visible and Invisible
Popular Standpoint topics

















