Canadian Correspondent Chris Brown
Behind the scenes stories from a Canadian Journalist overseas
North of Moscow, is Ivanovo District. It’s about 300 km away but takes up to five hours on bad roads to get there, and even more fighting traffic to get back. The payoff is some classic Russian scenes in places such as Suzdal and Plyos. By European and North American standards, the towns are badly…
Russians don’t do halloween. Nor unfortunately do many wear masks during a pandemic – although to be fair, I have seen a lot more of them lately especially due to fairly intense enforcement. Still, more often than not, they slip them down under their noses as soon as the security guard is behind them. That…
Here in Moscow, the hospitals are busy but not swamped. That’s not the cases in the regions beyond. Every day, it seems there’s another horror story.