Canadian Correspondent Chris Brown
Behind the scenes stories from a Canadian Journalist overseas
Some stories are worth coming back to over and over again. Margarita Gracheva’s is one of them. We profiled her more than a year ago in Saint Petersburg and told the story of how her sadistic husband cut her hands off in a fit of jealousy and rage. But she as been incredibly resilient, getting…
Weekend two of Russia-wide protests. Looks like Russian protest leaders are taking some cues from Hong Kong and moving their opposition around cities such as Moscow, trying to keep authorities off guard. Not sure its working though. The riot squads are able to move much faster. And deploy quickly. Having said that, the size of…
Turns out, Navalny got the big crowd he badly needed. The riot police got in some fights but notably it didn’t turn into a Belarus-style fiasco. The security services held back, no doubt hoping this will fizzle in a few weekends. Or maybe something has fundamentally changed here with Navlany’s imprisonment – and his video…
With thuggy looking security people watching our every move, our crew was among those at Vnukovo airport for Alexei Navalny’s arrival. Of course, he never did land at our airport as his plane was diverted to Sheremetyevo where he was promptly arrested. Navalny has mobilized vast crowds of protestors in the past and appeared on…
It has suddenly become very cold and very snowy in Moscow. Last winter, there was no snow at all. The previous two winters felt very short. Overall, the climate scientists say Russia is warming twice as fast as the rest of the northern hemisphere and it has certainly felt like that over the four winters…
I had a few fleeting moments of fame on Russian state TV the other day. They played one of our stories from CBC News: The National to suggest it was indicative of a chronic negative attitude towards the new Russian-made Coronavirus vaccine. Only problem was, they cut out the clip from a British expert who…
Our brilliant cameraman Dmitry Kozlov went up to the 24th floor of our building to get a shot of Moscow I haven’t seen before. Terrific view!