MY flight hadn’t even taken off before one of the country’s residents, a passenger in the neighbouring seat, asked why in the world I had decided to visit their homeland.  She may have been the ...

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‘But,’ as Chal Ravens writes in the latest LRB,... Neal Ascherson has worked as a journalist for more than six decades, reporting from Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, its successor states and ...