Vadim is a freelance journalist and blogger whose articles have appeared in the New York Times/International Herald Tribune, The Nation, Dissent Magazine, The Moscow Times, The Abu Dhabi National, the South African Mail and Guardian and Sunday Tribune, and the Harvard Political Review.

He writes the Foreign Policy Association’s Russia blog and, previously, a popular Mail and Guardian Thought Leader column.

Born precariously close to the Soviet Union’s largest nuclear submarine base, Vadim was educated in Britain and graduated from Harvard with a thesis on American democracy promotion in the former Soviet Union.

He lives with his partner above a very fancy French bakery in London.

You can contact this dashing chap at any time at: vadim.o.nikitin [at] gmail [dot] com