Luke Harding



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Full name: Luke Harding

Area of interest: Foreign affairs: Russia, Germany, Iraq, South Asia

Journals: The Guardian

Email: [mailto:luke.harding@guardian.co.uk luke.harding@guardian.co.uk]

Website: Guardian.co / Luke Harding

Blog: Comment is free...; The Blog Art & Entertainment

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Biography:
Education: Oxford University: English (edited Cherwell, the student paper); Atlantic College, United World Colleges

Career: Sunday Correspondent; Evening Argus, Brighton; Daily Mail; joined The Guardian in 1996: South Asia correspondent (Delhi), 2000/2001; spent three months in Pakistan and Afghanistan covering the war against the Taliban, and much of 2003/2004 covering the Iraq war; Berlin correspondent, 2004/2006; Moscow bureau chief, 2007- Current position/role: Moscow bureau chief


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 * United World Colleges: personal statement
 * Special Report: Strangers in a strange land The Guardian, 23rd May 2006

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Awards/Honours: Foreign Press Association Foreign Story of the Year, 2002 - for reporting the siege in Mazar-i-Sharif in Iraq

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Books & Debate:

 * The liar: the fall of Jonathan Aitken OCLC 38572266, with David Leigh and David Pallister, 1997. n.b. he covered the libel trial of Jonathan Aitken for The Guardian
 * The group: pictures from previous lives, including: Luke Harding, The Siege of Mazar-i Sharif OCLC 184743046, 2002

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Column remit: Russian affairs

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Role: Foreign Correspondent

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Email: [mailto:luke.harding@guardian.co.uk luke.harding@guardian.co.uk]

Website: Guardian.co / Luke Harding

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Articles:

 * and Russia: likely bedfellows'' - Angela Merkel isn't about to do anything to jeopardise Germany's 'special relationship' with Russia - 26th September 2009
 * cruel intention'' - In South Ossetia, I witnessed the worst ethnic cleansing since the war in the Balkans - 1st September 2008
 * A furious Kremlin is determined to bar Nato from its backyard but conflict will solve nothing - 20th July 2008
 * Moscow diary - Terry Wogan's remarks that Russia cheated their way to victory in Eurovision have gone down badly - 27th May 2008
 * From Russia with fraud - Ahead of last month's presidential election in Russia there was widespread suspicion that the poll was fixed in advance - 20th April 2008
 * Germany's loss of innocence - As potentially the most devastating terrorist plot to hit Europe is discovered, Germans must acknowledge the global threat - 6th September 2007
 * Win, win - The loser in Russia's elections last weekend was genuine democratic choice - 13th March 2007

