Aleksandr Baunov

Alexander Germanovich Baunov (, born December 4, 1969) is a Russian international policy expert, journalist, publicist, and former diplomat. Since 2015, he has been a senior associate at the Carnegie Moscow Center and later at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, as well as editor in chief of Carnegie.ru and then of CarnegiePolitika.

Baunov is the author of the books WikiLeaks: Diplomacy by the Back Door, It's a Small Myth, and The End of the Regime: How Three European Dictatorships Ended (all in Russian).

In 1995 he graduated from the Department of Classical Philology of the Philological Faculty of Moscow State University Lomonosov. From 1999 to 2003, he worked in the diplomatic service of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Embassy in Greece. From 2004 to 2008, he worked as a reporter, and then editor in the international department of the magazine Russian Newsweek. He has published articles in Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and The Atlantic. He regularly comments on domestic events and foreign policy issues in leading international media sources (Reuters, Associated Press, Bloomberg, The New York Times, France Presse, Forbes, El País, etc.) Since 2015, he has been the chief editor at the Carnegie Moscow Center. and in 2023 he was Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.

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