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Moscow Dispatches is a collection of events from the life of the journalist Roberto Scarfone, one of the few Westerners to have opted to stay in Russia the whole year round. Tales told in the book include an encounter with Chechen terrorists who have taken a thousand people hostage in a Moscow theatre, the first professional boxing meet to be held in Russia and fought by Russian professional boxers, a day and a night as seen from the corridor of a Moscow hospital.

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Roberto Scarfone, journalist, lives in Moscow with his wife and two children. As a young man, he worked as a Deputy Station Master. Following this, he went to London, where he worked first as a washer up in a restaurant, then as an ice-cream seller. Back in Italy, Scarfone was taken on as a journalist with the daily newspaper 'l'Unita' and then with 'Paese Sera'. His knowledge of foreign languages led to an appointment with the ANSA news agency, where he worked for three years on the night shift. After the period as night cover, the Agency sent him as correspondent first to Russia (1991-2002), then to India and finally to Tunisia. Roberto Scarfone is author of the novel 'La mafia fa schifo' (The Mafia Sucks) out with Amazon.

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