The Red Hotel

Alan Philps joined the agency as an intern. Reuters He arrived in 1978 and worked in Moscow until 1980. He returned in 1985, during the Gorbachev and Yeltsin era, but was expelled in September of that year in retaliation for the expulsion from the United Kingdom by Margaret Thatcher's government of twenty-five alleged Soviet spies. He returned to Russia as the Moscow correspondent for... Daily TelegraphBetween 1994 and 1998, he then moved to Jerusalem, where he worked as a Middle East correspondent, returning to London in 2003 to become the international editor of... Daily Telegraph.
Fluent in Russian, she also wrote the book. The Boy from Baby House 10, which addresses the issue of abandoned Russian children and international adoption. He has always maintained a special connection with the Hotel Metropol, where he has stayed on several occasions.