Anna Politkovskaya, the daughter of Soviet UN diplomats, was born in New York in 1958. She studied Journalism at Moscow University and worked for various newspapers such as »Izvestia« and after the fall of Communism for independent papers, among them »Obchtchaya Gazeta«. Most recently she was a special correspondent for
Anzhelina Polonskaya was born in 1969 in Malakhovka, a work settlement near Moscow. The daughter of a physician and an ice-skating coach, Polonskaya attended the Institute for Physical Culture and Sport in Moscow and studied Spanish at the Cervantes Institute. She wrote her first verse when she was seven, and
Andrej Nekrasow was born in St. Petersburg in 1958, where he studied at the Institute of Film and Theatre. He emigrated to the West in 1980 and worked as a journalist, author, theatre director and filmmaker. He got to know Alexander Litvinenko through his research and accompanied him on his
Andrei A. Piontkowski was born in 1967, studied Mathematics in Moscow and London. He is Director of Moscow’s Centre for Strategic Studies and is an independent observer of Russian politics. He provides political analysis for various American institutions and writes for Russian publications. His recently published article, »Putin’s Second Republic«,
born in 1950, he studied History in Moscow, for which he was conferred a doctorate. In 1991 he founded the publishing house Rosspen (Rossijskaja politicheskaja entsiklopedija; tr: Russian political encyclopedia). In 2008 he brought his project »History of Stalinism« to life, a collection of 100 volumes of relevant publications. He
was born in 1938 in Leningrad. The poet initially spent his childhood near Ufa due to wartime evacuations. In 1966 he wrote a cycle of poems entitled »Rossiya«, for which he was arrested in 1969 and sentenced to four years in a labour camp and two years’ exile. He was
Alisa Ganieva was born in 1985 in Moscow, and grew up in Makhachkala, the capital of the Caucasus republic of Dagestan. She is an author and literary critic, whose independent voice has shaken up the Russian cultural scene for a number of years, who graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literary
Alexandr Delphinov born in Moscow in 1971, is one of the founders of the reggae band »Jah Division« as well as of the punk-reggae band »Podwig Gastelko«. He has published two books of poetry in Moscow. At the moment, he lives in Berlin. From 2005 to 2006 he was part
Alex Goldfarb was born in Russia in 1947. A natural scientist and regime-critic, he emigrated in 1974 to Israel and Germany, where he received his doctorate. In the ‘80s, he worked as an assistant professor at Columbia University in New York. In the ‘90s he met Alexander Litwinenko and the
born in 1951 in Moscow, former contributor to numerous Samizdat publications and, since 1989, board member of the human rights organization Memorial. There until recently, he was responsible for the programme »History of Dissidents in the USSR«. Daniel has published numerous articles on the subject of human rights movements in
Alexander Viktorovich Ilitchevski was born in 1970 in Sumqayit, Azerbaijan, grew up in Moscow and studied mathematics and theoretical physics at Moscow’s Lomonosov University. He then taught at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, as well as at universities in Israel and the United States, before returning to Russia
Alexander Ryklin was born in Moscow in 1958. He worked for the editorial board of »Ogonyek« and up to 2001 for the news magazine »Itogie«. In April 2001 he and other staff members were excluded from the board. Since then he has worked for the political magazine »Yezhenedelnyi journal« and
