| Description | — | Fred Weir is a Canadian journalist who lives in Moscow and specializes in Russian affairs. He has been the Moscow correspondent for the Boston-based daily The Christian Science Monitor and for the monthly Chicago magazine In These Times. He has been a regular contributor from Moscow to The Independent, South China Morning Post and The Canadian Press. He was also for 20 years the Moscow correspondent of Hindustan Times an Indian, English-language, daily newspaper based in Delhi. Weir is the co-author, along with David Michael Kotz, of Revolution from Above: The Demise of the Soviet System, published in 1996, which provides a new interpretation and research for the disintegration of the USSR. |
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