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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 (CEPA) and visiting fellow at King's Centre for the Study of Intelligence, London. Mr Soldatov is a Russian investigative journalist in exile, co-founder and editor of Agentura.ru, a watchdog of the Russian secret services’ activities. 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), and Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation (PublicAffairs), due in June 2025.
Subjects:
Authoritarianism, Belarus, Cybersecurity, Defence, Democracy, Digitalisation, Disinformation, Future, Migration, Resilience, Russia, Security, Social Media, Ukraine, West
Updated: May 14, 2025

Agenda

Russia’s Spreading Influence: Strategies, Tactics, And Narratives 
LMC 2025
Viability Of Opposition in Exile in the case of Russia and Belarus
LMC 2024
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
4 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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