Andrei Soldatov
Agentura.Ru Editor
Russia
Andrei Soldatov is an investigative journalist and an editor of Agentura.Ru, an information hub on intelligence agencies. He began his career as a reporter in 1996. In 2000 he launched with several colleagues the Agentura.Ru project. He covered the siege of Nord-Ost in Moscow and the hostage crisis in Beslan. Soldatov regularly makes comments on terrorism and intelligence issues for Russian and Western media. In 2010 Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan’s published a book, titled The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia’s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB(PublicAffairs, 2010). Since 2012 he is a head of the "Russia's Surveillance State", a joint project of Agentura.Ru, Privacy International and CitizenLab.