Welcome to my website
Thank you for visiting my website which accompanies the publication of my first book "A Moscow Awakening". In the book I have drawn upon my experiences of living in the USSR from 1975/6 as a postgraduate student and as a diplomat in Russia from 2000-04 to provide an authentic backdrop to a story based on a ruthless business conspiracy during the Cold War. The novel explores themes of truth, guilt, justice and commemoration in Soviet society in the 1970s.
Richard Fassam-Wright
Richard Fassam-Wright worked for nearly 40 years in the EU and the UN, mainly in areas of foreign and security policy and humanitarian affairs. He was a postgraduate student in the USSR from 1975/6 where he studied Soviet agriculture and he returned to work in Russia from 2000-04 in the European Commission’s office in Moscow. A graduate of Cambridge and Glasgow Universities he was also a visiting fellow at the Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs, Harvard University in 2010/11. Since returning to the UK in 2017, Richard has been engaged in a number of activities including participation in Election Observation Missions, most notably in the Ukraine in 2019. "A Moscow Awakening" is his first book and is dedicated to his wife, Meg, and their children James and Kate. Richard is currently working on a second book set in Palestine.