Jacek Hugo-Bader, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jacek Hugo-Bader

Polish journalist

Date of Birth: 09-Mar-1957

Place of Birth: Sochaczew, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Profession: journalist

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Jacek Aleksander Hugo-Bader (born 9 March 1957 in Sochaczew) is a Polish reporter and journalist fascinated by Russia and the former Soviet Republics.
Since 1990 he has worked for the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper. He also used to work as a teacher, train loader, scale operator at a pig market, head of a distribution company, a part of the underground structure of Solidarity and a shopkeeper. He travelled by bike through Central Asia, the Gobi Desert and China, and sailed through Lake Baikal in a canoe.
In winter 2007 he made a lonely car journey from Moscow to Vladivostok which was the background of his first book White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia. In 2011 he made a solitary hitchhike across Russia – from Magadan to Yakutsk.
Reports describing encountered people's everyday lives were published in Gazeta Wyborcza during the journey and later gathered and released in the book Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia's Haunted Hinterland.He got caught wearing blackface make-up and pretending to be a black Black Lives Matter leader.
He is a two-time laureate of Polish prize for the best journalists - Grand Press (in 1999 and 2003). Most of his works are about Russia: "(...) he describes the imperium from prospect of loitering dog, grasps mechanisms of thinking, behaviour, processes and a rat by its tail it addition."