I first met Derk Sauer in Moscow in 1992, amid the ruins of the Soviet Union. I'd fallen in with journalists at a new English-language newspaper called The Moscow Times, and I often hung around the paper's office in a Radisson hotel. You could pop straight from your desk into a hotel-room shower, which was quite handy in Moscow then. One day I met the paper's founder: a tiny Dutchman, who, amid his eager young staff, resembled a bespectacled scoutmaster.
1992年，我在莫斯科初識德克•紹爾(Derk Sauer)，當時蘇聯剛解體不久。之前，我結識了英文報紙《莫斯科時報》(The Moscow Times)的一些記者，還經常去該報社設在一家麗笙(Radisson)酒店的辦公室「串門」。坐在辦公桌前，一起身便能在酒店客房淋浴，這種便利在當時的莫斯科還很少見。有一天，我遇見了報紙的創辦人，他是一位小個子的荷蘭人，戴著眼鏡，站在朝氣蓬勃的年輕員工中間，就像是童子軍領隊。
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