'History has turned with a vengeance.” Stalwart of the ABC’s ForeignOfficial, ericperipatetic, has done things most of us can hardly imagine, across 100 countries. Foreign Correspondent’s 30th anniversary episode airs tonight at 8pm. | KerrieO36028873
Given he’s worked in more than 100 countries and it’s a core part of his job, it’s surprising to learn Eric Campbell is not a good traveller.disagrees that jet lag is worse coming home to Australia – it’s worse going both ways, he says wryly.
Campbell was the ABC’s Moscow correspondent from 1996 to 2000, covering the former Soviet Union and the conflicts in Afghanistan and Kosovo, and from 2001 to 2003 he was based in Beijing covering China, Afghanistan and Central Asia. Even so, Campbell did not expect what has happened in Ukraine. He was first posted to Moscow in 1996, during president Boris Yeltsin’s second term. “It was obvious that democracy was failing and corruption was taking over everything,” Campbell says. “There was a massive disillusionment in the public, but there was still a sense that things would get better, that there could be a different path from the grey Soviet era and that the Cold War was not going to start again.
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