Alexander Koltsov

Alexander Koltsov is a journalist of the Nara Novost weekly (Nara News). The newspaper is published in Naro-Fominsk, a small town in the Moscow region.

Little Strangers. ‘Get me out of here!’

When twelve-year-old Lyosha tried to escape a children’s home to return to his family, he was sent to a psychiatric hospital — an abuse of psychiatry immediately reminiscent of Soviet days. Lyosha was eventually saved only by the investigative curiosity of local journalists, Aleksandr Koltsov and

By Alexander Koltsov and Ksenia Turchak

/ 3 Aug 2012