26 SEPTEMBER 1998, page 24

In Russias Babylon

Owen Matthews evokes a decadence now ending for lack of funds Moscow EARLIER this month, just as the rouble began its headlong plunge into oblivion, Vogue magazine was launched......

Mind Your Language

AN eagle-eyed reader, Mrs Margaret Barman of Barton-upon-Humber (where there is a fine Saxon church), has set me a poser. Before I get on to that, let me men- tion, while I......