I find it paywalled, but note the current Moscow bureau chief writes: > When I started this job I asked one of our editors, “What kind of stories do you want?”

I find it paywalled, but note the current Moscow bureau chief writes: > When I started this job I asked one of our editors, “What kind of stories do you want?” And the response was: Tell us how people live in Russia. We write about Putin, politics, and will continue to, but we also want to tell stories of people. The food people eat is a core component of the human existence. Unlike most newspapers, the NYT retained a Moscow bureau through the foreign reporting collapses of the 1970's and 1990's. But it's not large. It seems smaller than a local TV news staff. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/reader-center/anton-troianovski-russia-stroganina.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/reader-center/anton-troia...