In the early nineteen eighties, Andrew Nagorski, then Moscow bureau chief for Newsweek, traveled to report from Vologda, a city in a famed dairy region that was struggling with local supply. Nagorski had to register his trip with the authorities, who would usually get someone to “glom onto you, as kind-of your minder.” In Vologda, the deputy editor of a local newspaper showed up to greet Nagorski at the train station and offered to show him around. “I thanked him very much and basically blew him off,” Nagorski recalls. The editor gave Nagorski his card.
Origen: A tale of four American journalists in Moscow – Columbia Journalism Review
