Anna Reid was Kiev correspondent for the Economist and the Daily Telegraph from 1993 to 1995, and has since covered the country for Newsweek and the Spectator. She is the author of The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia, and Leningrad: Tragedy of a City Under Siege, 1941-44, which has been translated into eighteen languages and shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize. From 1992 to 1996 she ran the foreign affairs program at the London-based think tank Policy Exchange. She is a trustee of the Ukrainian Institute London.