Who’s Funding Russia’s Skinhead Terrorists?

“Five years ago,” said Dmitry Bakhirev, a lawyer for one of the National Socialist Organization defendants, “you would hear about some skinheads beating a Tajik migrant on the metro. Then it became knives and aluminum bats. Then firearms. Soon you will be hearing about machine guns and grenade launchers.”

Source: Financial Times
Published: Dec 3, 2010
Length: 13 minutes (3,399 words)

The rise of a new generation of Mormons

Source: Financial Times
Published: Jul 9, 2010
Length: 12 minutes (3,241 words)

Moscow’s stray dogs

Source: Financial Times
Published: Jan 16, 2010
Length: 11 minutes (2,840 words)

The man who invented exercise

Source: Financial Times
Published: Sep 11, 2009
Length: 16 minutes (4,074 words)

The Iraqi Who Saved Norway From Oil

When he boarded his flight from London to Oslo, Farouk al-Kasim, a young Iraqi geologist, knew his life would never again be the same. Norway was a country about as different as it was possible to imagine from his home, the Iraqi port city of Basra. He had no job to go to, and no idea of how he would make a living in the far north. It was May 1968 and al-Kasim had just resigned from his post at the Iraq Petroleum Company. To do so, he had had to come to the UK, where the consortium of western companies that still controlled most of his country’s oil production had its headquarters.

Source: Financial Times
Published: Aug 29, 2009
Length: 12 minutes (3,115 words)

Lunch with the FT: Larry Summers

Source: Financial Times
Published: Jul 10, 2009
Length: 8 minutes (2,147 words)

Media wants to break free

Source: Financial Times
Published: May 17, 2009
Length: 6 minutes (1,725 words)