An Experiment in Moscow (May1992)

(By Marjorie Farquharson, The Ex-Moscow Information Officer) Introduction: The idea of setting up an AI information office arose out of … More

Recruitment for the Moscow Information officer (March 1992)

By Marjorie Farquharson (Ex-Moscow Information Officer) Press work is a natural and important part of the Moscow job, as are … More

By Marjorie Farquharson I recently spent time in a Moscow hospital. The medicine was plentiful, the care round-the-clock, and as … More

By Marjorie FARQUHARSON (2003) One year after Russia’s new Criminal Procedure Code came into force on 1 July 2002, the … More

INVESTORS from Japan and the USA are eyeing the oil and gas fields off Sakhalin’s east coast and squaring up … More

Valery Abramkin, who has died at 66, was a quiet and remarkably consistent person. In 1980 he went on a … More

MOSCOW – Russia’s first chicken came home to roost at the European Court of Human Rights in late November, when … More

THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR (A translation by Marjorie Farquharson) ACT ONE A room in the Provost’s house. Scene I The Provost, … More

An interview with Anna POLITKOVSKAYA (2005) Index on Censorship took advantage of the presence of Russian — and other one-time … More

The Russian investigative journalist, who received an ovation at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2005, was shot dead in … More

In spring this year [1992] I returned from 15 months’ living in Moscow, where I set up the first office … More

With the rights activist (and astrophysicist) in the early 1980s, at a human rights gathering, in Portugal perhaps. Marjorie wrote … More

“I do not like rolled up manuscripts. Others are laden with the limnent of time, Like an archangel’s trumpet”. 1 … More

Dissident under the slogan “For Your Freedom and Ours”. “The glory of Soviet science is talked of loudly and at … More

— It was a big mistake. The next morning I went to the park to clear my head, and I … More