The Russian officer stared at me with cold contempt.
“What are you doing here? You are not allowed here.”
“But I’m an accredited journalist, and I have a permit,” I said.
Next to his Kalashnikov my case was weak: pulled from my car at a hastily created checkpoint in Chechnya, I feared more for my Chechen driver than for…
Olivia Ward
Olivia Ward is The Toronto Star’s foreign affairs writer. She covered the former Soviet Union as bureau chief and correspondent from 1992 to 2002.