By Luke Harding
In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to soak up a brand new task as a correspondent for the British newspaper the mother or father. inside months, mysterious brokers from Russia's Federal defense carrier - the successor to the KGB - had damaged into his flat. He stumbled on himself tailed by means of males in affordable leather-based jackets, bugged, or even summoned to Lefortovo, the KGB's infamous felony. The break-in used to be the start of a rare mental conflict opposed to the journalist and his relatives. Vladimir Putin's spies used strategies constructed by means of the KGB and perfected within the Nineteen Seventies through the Stasi, East Germany's sinister mystery police. This clandestine crusade burst into the open in 2011 while the Kremlin expelled Harding from Moscow - the 1st western reporter to be deported from Russia because the days of the chilly battle. Mafia nation: How one reporter turned an enemy of the brutal new Russia is a superb and haunting account of the insidious tools utilized by a resurgent Kremlin opposed to its so-called "enemies" - human rights employees, western diplomats, reporters and competition activists. It comprises unpublished fabric from private US diplomatic cables, published final 12 months by way of WikiLeaks, which describe Russia as a "virtual mafia state". Harding offers a different, own and compelling portrait of today's Russia, twenty years after the tip of communism, that reads like a undercover agent mystery.
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F . S . R . In Georgia, as elsewhere, there is a chain of ambulatoria, polyclinics, and hospitals, general and special, all linked together. H e discussed with us at some length the education and training of doctors at the M e d i c a l Institute connected with the university, the education of midwives, instructed in Russian as w e l l as in their native languages, maternity and child care, welfare work, and in general the procedure in preventive work and in the treatment of patients. W e visited the Tuberculosis Institute, in a beautiful new building of Renaissance style, splendidly equipped.
N o w they have twenty large hospitals and sanatoria, w h i l e the hospitals for non-Tartars have increased in number. W e were met by the Commissar of Health, a huge fine-looking Tartar. H e took us to visit a large university clinic, including all the departments of medicine, in w h i c h students are taught special subjects. A b o u t 1,500 patients are treated daily at this clinic. I t has 70 beds for in-patients. W e got glimpses of other health institutions in the city, and w e carried away an impression of an Oriental city in the course of transition, w i t h signs of modernization already visible.
G . L . Kuchaidze. W e were oriented as to the char- Moscow to Georgia and the Crimea 43 acter of the city, the rapid mechanization of industry, the development of the university, w h i c h now has about 16,000 students, and the preventive and curative medical services. T h e Commissar pointed out that, except for adaptation to local circumstances, the plan for health w o r k was the same here as in the R . S . F . S . R . In Georgia, as elsewhere, there is a chain of ambulatoria, polyclinics, and hospitals, general and special, all linked together.
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