John Miller

John Miller may refer to:

Politics

John Miller (South Australian politician)

John Miller (12 July 1840 - 22 September 1919) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly multi-member seat of Stanley from 1884 to 1885, 1890 to 1893 and 1896 to 1902.

References

John Miller (journalist and author)

John Miller is a British journalist and author who was based primarily in the Soviet Union.

Biography

Early years

He was born in London and went to the Enfield Grammar School before two years of National Service in the Army when he learned Russian. He began working life on the Eastern Daily Press in Norwich and covered Wymondham and Brandon, in Suffolk. Having joined Reuters he was sent to Moscow in 1960 at the height of the East-West Cold War, and among the big news stories he covered from Moscow were the Sino-Soviet split, the U-2 drama, the Cuban missile crisis, Soviet space ventures, the involvement of British, American and Soviet intelligence agencies, and the Soviet dissident campaign. He later switched to the Daily Telegraph. He also worked in apartheid South Africa, was a diplomatic correspondent and a foreign leader writer.

Writing career

John Miller has been a Foreign Office national observer of elections in Russia, 1993, 1995 and 1996, in the Ukraine 1994 and in Kazakhstan, also 1996. He collaborated on several books, including the The Falklands Conflict and The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff with Christopher Dobson and Ronald Payne, and On The Day We Almost Bombed Moscow with Christopher Dobson.