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Andrei Soldatov

Editor of Agentura.ru

Andrei Soldatov is a Non-resident Senior Fellow with the Center for European Policy Analysis. Mr Soldatov is a Russian investigative journalist, co-founder, and editor of Agentura.ru, a watchdog of the Russian secret services’ activities. He has been covering security services and terrorism issues since 1999, which included the siege in Beslan for Echo of Moskvy, a leading independent radio station, and Moscow News. For Novaya Gazeta, he covered the 2006 Lebanon War from Lebanon and tensions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In October 2012, Agentura.Ru, Privacy International, and Citizen Lab launched the joint project “Russia’s Surveillance State,” with Mr Soldatov as a head of the project, to undertake research and investigation into surveillance practices in Russia, including the trade in and use of surveillance technologies. He is a co-author, with Irina Borogan, of The New Nobility. The Restoration of Russia’s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB (PublicAffairs, 2010), The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries (PublicAffairs, 2015), and The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad (PublicAffairs, 2019). 
Subjects:
Authoritarianism, Belarus, Cybersecurity, Defence, Democracy, Digitalisation, Disinformation, Future, Migration, Resilience, Russia, Security, Social Media, Ukraine, West
Updated: April 4, 2022

Agenda

Viability Of Opposition in Exile in the case of Russia and Belarus
LMC 2024: Let Us Not Despair, But Act
Authoritarianism, Democracy, Disinformation, Resilience
All You Fascists Bound to Lose: Arming Democracies to Withstand Autocracy 
LMC 2022
Authoritarianism, Belarus, Migration, Russia
Stay or Go? The Captive Mind in Russia and Belarus
LMC 2022
Authoritarianism, Democracy, Russia
Russian Civil Society and Media. Inter Malleum et Incudem – Between a Rock and a Hard Place
LMC 2021
Authoritarianism, Democracy, Russia
Timor et Odium: Fear and Loathing in Russia. Страх и ненависть в России
LMC 2021
Authoritarianism, Democracy, Digitalisation, Disinformation
Democracy and Digital Misdeeds: Fighting Foreign Manipulation
LMC 2018
3 more

Articles

Reuters / Moscow City Court press service / Scanpix
Defence, Russia, Security
How the War Affected the Russian Security Services

The intelligence disaster in the spring of 2022 was so big that Putin couldn’t ignore it. The repressions were anticipated and quick to follow. But then, something changed.

Andrei Soldatov ,  Irina Borogan
LMC 2023
Disinformation, Russia, Social Media, West
From Fake News to Good News

Despite Vladimir Putin’s success in painting the Internet in a dark light, global connectivity has re-emerged as a force for good in his war on Ukraine.

Andrei Soldatov
LMC 2022

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