A Week of Red October in Moscow
We live on Kutuzovski Prospekt. It is a much travelled street nine lanes wide, bringing travellers from the west of Moscow into the heart of the city, past the White House on to Prospekt Kalinina, and then to the Kremlin. We live…
Alan McLaine
bout de papier is honoured to print below the text of the speaking notes for Mr. Blair Seaborn’s oral eulogy on that sad occasion. Editor
La Pérestroïka : « une affaire canadienne »
C’est ainsi qu’Alexandre Nicholaevitch Iakovlev caractérisait le grand mouvement de révolution tranquille qui a balayé l’Europe de l’Est et l’URSS à la fin des années 80. En effet celui qu’on appelle souvent le « père de la Pérestroïka » s’est trouvé sur…
A Slow Waltz with Madame Gromyko
The music stopped. I was to dance with the woman before me. We fumbled for a moment. One of us would have to be the man! To the strain of sweet violins, I swept her into my arms for a slow waltz.…
Children of Glasnost: Growing Up Soviet
Recent years have seen a massive outpouring of works that have attempted to describe and account for the revolution that Mikhail Gorbachev unwittingly launched in 1985. Few have successfully met the dizzying challenge of Soviet change. Events there have been moving so…
Letters // Correspondance
This photo suggests that the people of Wall, South Dakota (where the sign is posted) retain an understandable caution when it comes to diplomats. Would that the Treasury Board shared their intimidation.
The Howling Cats of Moscow
(Editor’s Note: This article is a chapter from Sidney Freifeld’s book Undiplomatic Notes: Tales from the Canadian Foreign Service, with illustrations by Susan Macartney, published by Hounslow Press, Toronto which has gone into a second printing.)
J.E. Ghislain Hardy
An officer of the Department for 38 years, Ghislain Hardy served in Rome, London and Geneva, and was Canada’s Ambassador to Spain, Moscow, Italy and the North Atlantic Council. He was an active member of the Senior Editorial Board of bout de…
The George Costakis File
n April 4, 1990, an auction took place at Sotheby’s in London. On offer were, among other things, 20 works from the George Costakis collection of the Russian avant-garde, and four of Costakis’ own paintings, done late in this life.
Our Man in Moscow — A Diplomat’s Reflections on the Soviet Union
by Peter Roberts
