The Mess In Moscow

January, 1993

The sight of Carl Bernstein being pecked at by Gypsy women, their kids kicking the shins of this famous journalist when he didn't pony up the hard currency, told me all I needed to know about the sorry state of Mother Russia. Bernstein and I were in Moscow for a conference with Russian investigative journalists, but it doesn't take much digging these days to discover how messed up things are.Carl was to be a featured speaker that night at the Writers' Union. In the old days a car would have been...