Shaun Walker biography

Shaun Walker is the Moscow Correspondent of The Independent and a contributing editor of Monocle magazine. He has lived in Moscow for five years and travelled the length and breadth of the former Soviet Union, reporting from across Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia. He is a fluent Russian speaker and received a first-class degree in Russian and Soviet History from Oxford University. He is 27 and this will be his first book.

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