Andrey Kolesnikov

Andrey Vladimirovich Kolesnikov is a Russian journalist and expert on Russian politics. He is a board member of Gaidar Foundation. Before, he was a long-time 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. He is a former columnist for Vedomosti. Since 2022, Koleshnikov has been a columnist for Novaya Gazeta.

Biography Kolesnikov was born in Moscow in 1965. His father, Vladimir Ivanovich Kolesnikov (b. 1928), worked for the apparatus of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. His mother Adel Davydovna Kolesnikova (nee Traub, b. 1928), was a French language teacher. His brother, Sergey Kolesnikov, was a Kremlin speechwriter. Kolesnikov remained a fierce critic of the system that Putin established.

He was awarded the Adam Smith national prize.