Moscow Dispatches is a collection of events from the life of the journalist Roberto Scarfone, one of the few Westerners to have opted to stay in Russia the whole year round. Tales told in the book include an encounter with Chechen terrorists who have taken a thousand people hostage in a Moscow theatre, the first professional boxing meet to be held in Russia and fought by Russian professional boxers, a day and a night as seen from the corridor of a Moscow hospital.