Jeffrey Tayler

  • Soul brothers

    Journalists jeered, but President Bush was right when he made nice with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The former KGB agent talks tough, but he can't afford to fight missile defense.
  • Making the world safe for democracy?

    From the streets of Paris to offices in Japan, the world chuckles and shrugs at the U.S. election circus.
  • The end of the affair

    Russia's support for the ouster of Slobodan Milosevic reflects a desire to cut its losses, not a pro-Western change of heart.
  • Guilty as charged

    Russian oligarchs are being harassed and jailed in a crackdown that's raising eyebrows in the West. But most Russians thinks they're guilty -- just like everybody else.
  • Russian dancing

    The night was sultry and vodka-filled, but the girl was from another world than my own.
  • Better dead than red, white and blue

    By electing Vladimir Putin president, Russians chose a product of the same repressive police state that has cost millions of lives -- because being a superpower is better than being a Western plaything.
  • Behind the red curtain

    A night at the official Communist Party hotel in China leads to everything but a good night's sleep.
  • "Would God forgive Lenin?"

    In a lonely tower above the mean streets of Krasnoyarsk, a wanderer encounters the fervent heart of Russia's abiding faith.
  • The Brahmin of the Burning Ghats

    Lost in the fiery back alleys of Varanasi, a wanderer stumbles into an unforgettable encounter.
  • Transylvanian nightmare

    A young man bears the lasting burden of Romania's depraved dictator
  • Siberian wasteland

    An overland journey exposes a traveler to the hazards of radiation, desolation and snowstorms.
  • Escape from Tashkent

    A Peace Corps worker unwittingly falls into a romantic adventure with a Russian waitress stranded in Uzbekistan.
  • Nigerian nightmare

    Jeffrey Tayler describes a death-defying bus adventure across Nigeria.

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