You’re a Canadian farmer looking for a better life. You’ve decided that moving to another country is the best way to get there. Is Russia your destination? Our Moscow-based writer, Fred Weir also Canadian, went out to the Russian countryside to find out why one family said yes. #Russia #journalism #Moscow https://www.csmonitor.com/Podcasts/Why-We-Wrote-This/wwwt_2507
The Russian dream? Our writer profiles a new kind of North American expat.
How does a Saskatchewan farmer dreaming of a better life end up in rural Russia? In this episode, the Monitor’s Fred Weir, a Canadian journalist with 40 years in Russia, talks about how he found and profiled a new kind of invited Western expat: one w…The Christian Science Monitor