The Washington Post, September 7th, 2003
BLACK EARTH A Journey Through Russia After the Fall By Andrew Meier Norton. 511 pp. $28.95 "We are a rich country of poor people," said Vladimir Putin, displaying a flair for paradox rare among current presidents. Russia has always been a puzzling land, and post-Soviet Russia, a 12-year- old country with a thousand years of history, is especially hard to read. Andrew Meier, Moscow correspondent for Time magazine from 1996- 2000, decided that the best way to perceive and portray the new Russia was to "travel to the country's extremes, to the corners where no 'Kremlin insiders' dwelt and few o...
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