Rein Kaljumäe
Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent
2 articles
About
Tartu-born veteran of the foreign desk — Moscow 1991, Grozny 1995, Sarajevo, then the Brussels years — declared persona non grata by Russia in 2004 for tracing an atrocity up the chain to the men who signed for it. Reads every story from the small nation's floor: who gets sold when the great powers cut a deal. Deaf in his right ear from a mortar round, drafts on index cards because "the keyboard lets you lie faster", and closes every piece with one concrete thing to watch.
