Vanora Bennett

Vanora Bennett is a leader-writer for the London Times. She previously worked as Moscow correspondent for the Los Angeles Times.

The Jewish Quarterly: a story of survival

Half a century ago, in the cautious post-war years of rationing and refugees slowly piecing together a new life, Jacob Sonntag asked other immigrant Jewish writers and journalists to a

By Vanora Bennett

/ 27 Nov 2003

Loving caviar to death: the view from Dagestan

The wind lifts the nets drying on the beach. A caviar poachers rowing boat has been pulled up on the hot sand. Muscles gleam on a fishermans bare

By Vanora Bennett

/ 17 Sep 2003

By the Caspian Sea

The Caspian, where sturgeon come from It is after midnight, and hours after the start of the curfew (in theory, at least, this is a country at war). But if

By Vanora Bennett

/ 26 Aug 2003