FROM CHERNOBYL WITH LOVE: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union

In the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the late 20th-century was a time of unprecedented home for democracy and freedom in Eastern Europe. It was not the type of place to find a 22 year old Californian just out of college. Cengel first took a job at the Baltic Times just seven years after Latvia regained its independence. 16 pages of photos.