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Shaun Walker

Shaun Walker is the Moscow correspondent of the Independent. He has written for a number of publications, including RussiaProfile.org and Monocle.

Recent articles


Russia’s Potemkin election

The sentiments of young Russian professional friends and acquaintances help Shaun Walker make sense of the strange atmosphere in which the country's parliamentary elections are being conducted.

Nagorno-Karabakh's referendum

The Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan remains poised between peace and war even after a decisive vote for independence, report Daria Vaisman & Shaun Walker.

South Ossetia: Russian, Georgian...independent?

A decisive referendum result has done nothing to resolve the small Caucasian statelet's future, reports Shaun Walker.

Anna Politkovskaya: death of a professional

The killing of a journalist who fearlessly reported the horror of Chechnya's wars is a devastating blow to free media in Russia, reports Shaun Walker in Moscow.