Alexei Pankin is a leading Russian political and media analyst and journalist based in Moscow. He writes a popular column for The Moscow Times, offers his commentary and analysis to international media, and provides confidential political analysis for corporate leaders. At Izvestia, the country’s leading national daily, he developed the first Western-style Op-Ed section to be published in an indigenous Russian newspaper, and served as its first editor. Mr. Pankin is a former analyst with the Academy of Sciences and founder of Russia’s first media management magazine, Sreda.

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Lively and authoratative commentary and analysis on political and media topics, as well as all current events. Cover Russia and other former Soviet states.