Andrey Kolesnikov

Andrey Ivanovich Kolesnikov is a Russian journalist, columnist and editor. Since 2000, he has been writing regular reports about Russian president Vladimir Putin for Kommersant as a member of the Kremlin pool. He is an author of several books and articles about Putin's life.

Biography

Kolesnikov was born in the urban-type settlement of Semibratovo, Yaroslavl Oblast in 1966. After receiving a degree in Moscow State University Faculty of Journalism, he wrote for Moskovskaya Pravda, Moskovskiye Novosti, and the Institute for High Energy Physics newspaper.

Since 1996, he has been working as a special correspondent for Kommersant along with Aleksandr Kabakov and Valery Panyushkin. In 2000, Kolesnikov published a book named From the First Person about Vladimir Putin co-authored by acting Kremlin spokesperson Natalya Timakova and journalist Natalya Gevorkyan.

In 2008, Kolesnikov became editor-in-chief of the Russky pioner magazine. Vladimir Putin, Sergey Lavrov, Vladislav Surkov, Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven, Mikhail Prokhorov, Arkady Dvorkovich, Viktor Vekselberg have written columns for Russky pioner.

In 2012, Kolesnikov became deputy CEO of the Kommersant publishing house.

In March 2022, Government of Canada put Kolesnikov on its sanction list for "peddling Russian disinformation and propaganda".