Jon Fasman was born in Chicago in 1975 and grew up in Washington, DC. He was educated at Brown and Oxford universities and has worked as a journalist in Washington, DC, New York, Oxford, and Moscow. His writing has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, Slate, Legal Affairs, the Moscow Times, and The Washington Post. He is now a writer and an editor for The Economist's website.
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Jim Vilatzer was going nowhere—working in his parents’ restaurant, sleeping in his childhood bedroom—until he ran up gambling debts that forced him to go somewhere far away—fast. He uses his Russian-language skills (learned from his émigré grand... SEE MORE