Alec Russell

Alec Russell has been writing from abroad since September 1989 when he bicycled through Pakistan up the Khunjerab Pass to China to raise money for Chinese students in the wake of the massacre at Tiananmen Square. On his return he hitched a ride to Romania after the Christmas 1989 Revolution to try mostra altro his luck at being a foreign correspondent. After a year in Romania reporting for the Telegraph, he went on to cover the Kurdish crisis in Turkey, and the wars in Croatia and Bosnia where he won two press awards before being appointed the paper's Johannesburg correspondent in 1993. He is now the Telegraph's Assistant Foreign Editor in London mostra meno