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 James Meek    (journalist, author) | |
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| Born | 1962 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Edinburgh University. |
Former Moscow bureau chief for the Guardian | |
Not to be confused the corporate journalist, James Gordon Meek who went missing after an FBI raid on his home.
James Meek is a British novelist and journalist.
Career
In 1991 Meek moved to Kiev and in 1994 to Moscow. He joined the staff of The Guardian, becoming its Moscow bureau chief. He left The Guardian in 2006. [1]
He covered the conflict in Chechnya, a Russian breakaway region, In connection with this work, he interview Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian activist who later was shot in her Moscow home.[2]
In 2003 he crossed the border from Kuwait into Iraq, following the invading American armies to Baghdad, being embedded with British forces[3]. Meek covered the military conflict in Afghanistan, again being embedded with British forces in 2006[4].
Publications
Meek is the author of five novels, two books of short stories and a book of essays about privatisation.[1]
A Document by James Meek
| Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
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| Document:The Dreamings of Dominic Cummings | Article | 24 October 2019 | Nigel Farage Boris Johnson Brexit 2016 EU Referendum Dominic Cummings Bret Victor Hossein Yassaie | For Dominic Cummings the whole Brexit crisis may be a venturesome trial with disposable vessels: voters, the Conservative Party, the United Kingdom. If it doesn’t work out, there’s always California, and the rest of the solar system. |
