Lawrence Scott Sheets

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

LAWRENCE SCOTT SHEETS reported for National Public Radio for seven years

and was NPR’s Moscow bureau chief from 2001 to 2005, covering the

entire former USSR. He was Caucasus region bureau chief for Reuters

from 1992 to 2000 and a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University

from 2000 to 2001. His work has been published in the Atlantic Monthly

and the New York Times and has been heard on the BBC World Service,

Public Radio International, and other news outlets. Sheets is currently

South Caucasus project director of the International Crisis Group, focusing

on Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia.