A Party boss disliked my lampoon and I was driven out of my provincial newspaper. Shortly before that, he called me a wonderful young journalist and praised everything that I published in the leading Russian journals. Now, in my hometown Moscow, I applied for jobs, but hit a wall of unexplained rejections. The Life of… [Read More]
Arkady Polishchuk
Arkady Polishchuk has authored articles, essays, and satires for leading Russian periodicals, as well as two books about Africa. In the 1970s, he published a firsthand account of the trial and persecution of prominent Jewish doctor and dissident Mikhail Stern, documented the Soviet Union’s Christian emigration movement, and reported on other human rights abuses. He was expelled from Russia in 1977. For many years he was a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty correspondent in Washington, Munich, and Prague. "The City of the Blind" is adopted from the memoir-in-progress Dancing on Thin Ice.