Andrey Vladimirovich Kolesnikov
# Andrey Vladimirovich Kolesnikov

Andrey Vladimirovich Kolesnikov (Russian: Андрей Владимирович Колесников) is a Russian journalist and expert on Russian politics. He is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is also an author of a series of books about Anatoly Chubais.

He worked in Izvestia, and since 1988 he had been a deputy editor of The New Times (Russia). He is also a former columnist for Vedomosti.

## Biography

Born to a family of lawyers. Graduated from the Moscow State Faculty of Law юридический факультет МГУ (1987).

* 1987—1990 — senior consultant of the judicial committee of criminal cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.
* 1990—1992 — journalist for «Диалог».
* 1992—1993 — journalist «Российские вести».
* 1993—1995 — journalist «Огонёк».

From 1995 — works for the «Новое время» — The New Times: journalist, deputy editor, from January 1998

From 1998 — works for the newspaper «Известия»: from June — September 1998 — editor of the economics department; in September 1998 — January 2000 — editor of politics; from January 2000 — political journalist

20 days after Vladimir Putin took over the presidency from Boris Yeltsin, and thus before he was elected, Kolesnikov compared Putin with Mussolini.

Kolesnikov remained a fierce critic of the system that Putin established.

He was awarded with national prizes Adam Smith.

His brother, Sergey Kolesnikov, was a Kremlin speechwriter.

