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Mark Galeotti
This blog’s author, Dr Mark Galeotti has been researching Russian history and security issues since the late 1980s.
Educated at Cambridge University and the LSE, he is now an Honorary Professor at UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies and a Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI. He also remains a senior non-resident fellow at the Institute of International Relations Prague and for 2018-19 a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute. He is also the director of the consultancy firm Mayak Intelligence. Previously he has been Head of the Centre for European Security at the Institute of International Relations Prague, Professor of Global Affairs at New York University, head of the History department at Keele University in the UK, an adviser at the British Foreign Office and a visiting professor at MGIMO (Moscow), Charles University (Prague) and Rutgers (Newark), as well as a visiting fellow with the ECFR.
His books include We Need To Talk About Putin (Ebury) and The Vory: Russia’s super mafia (Yale University Press), several Osprey books, and the edited collections The Politics of Security in Modern Russia (Ashgate) and Russian & Soviet Organized Crime (Ashgate) and he is a regular contributor to Jane’s Intelligence Review, Oxford Analytica and many other outlets. He is a columnist for Raam op Rusland and the Moscow Times.
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- Well worth reading - and that Putin can still chat to an “enemy” says something about the complexities of modern Ru… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 19 hours ago
- iPhone advert and onion dome: all Russia in one snap https://t.co/X71mGAWrwk 20 hours ago
- An excellent & interesting article, but while spot on about the new opportunities for protest (cf HK, too), I think… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 23 hours ago
- So I missed Flag Day in #Moscow, but in what risks getting very meta, I get to see the Flag Day flags... https://t.co/3nydAnb3Si 1 day ago
- RT @kellyhignett: Interactive map sheds light on victims of 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia kafkadesk.org/2019/08/21/int… #czecchoslovakia #p… 1 day ago
Videos
Mark Galeotti from Moscow on policy gridlock and Rex Tillerson's visit,
12 April 2017Speaking on corruption on 'Russia's Rotten Core' panel at Chatham House, 2012
Speaking on corruption on The Big Think, 2012
Speaking about assassination of mob boss Usoyan on Varney & Co, Fox Business Network
Speaking on Russian espionage on Bloomberg TV, 2010
A friendlier Russia in 2013? A one-minute "geopolitical surprise" prediction for Wikistrat
On Bloomberg Surveillance, 26 March 2013, talking about Russia and Cyprus
On CNBC, 6 September 2013, talking about Russia and Syria
On RT with Oxana Boyko on 17 April 2014, talking about covert actions
Forthcoming Books and Projects
SHORT HISTORY OF RUSSIA (Ebury, 2020)
COMBAT VEHICLES OF RUSSIA’S SPECIAL FORCES (Osprey, 2020)
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- A Good Treaty
- All the Russias (NYU Jordan Center)
- Backyard Safari (in German)
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- Edward Lucas
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