From February 1993 through March 1994 I (Julie Poucher) was a staff reporter and crime columnist for English-language news weekly "The Moscow Tribune," published by Anthony Louis (now deceased) in Moscow, Russia. I covered socioeconomic & political change, security, and barrier-breaking cultural moments in post-Soviet Russia — from a communist and nationalist coup, protests in the streets, ‘New Russia’ party politics, and state separation moves in the Baltics and Russian Far East, to U.S. & Japan foreign aid, the Kremlin’s ecological agenda, and organized crime, to policing in the capitol, the art scene, and the arrival of 'Estée Lauder', a second McDonalds, Salt-N-Pepa, Michael Jackson, and much more. 
MORE DETAIL: 
• I covered the October 1993 coup, including the role of prominent communist and nationalist figures in that coup and Russia’s first free parliamentary elections (My election reporting was cited in the East European Quarterly/Summer 1996 piece ‘The Russian Parliamentary Elections of 1993: A Quasi-Historical Interpretation in Light of the 1995 Elections')
• I interviewed Russian Pres. Yeltsin's Chief Ecology Advisor Alexei Yablokov at the Kremlin about national environmental priorities 
• I wrote a weekly crime column, which was widely read by the expatriate community and referenced in U.S. Embassy security briefings
•  I wrote a series of articles from Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East on organized crime, debates over Russia separation, and Japanese Red Cross medical aid to orphans, maternity hospitals, and mothers in prison with their babies
• I reported on the first post-Soviet rock concerts featuring U.S. musicians, including Salt-N-Pepa (whom I interviewed in St. Petersburg) and Michael Jackson (whom I didn't interview, but about whom I did speak with Russian special forces regarding what to expect vis a vis his popularity)
•  I collaborated with local journalists (non-native English speakers) to enhance storytelling about the new arts scene in Russia, focusing on Moscow and St. Petersburg
 
Since this was "pre-internet" all of my clips are newspaper clips, which I am in the process of uploading to this collection. [I left The Moscow Tribune in March 1994 to join the NBC News Moscow bureau as an assignment editor and field producer, where I stayed until November 1995]