Alexander Baunov is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center.
Before joining Carnegie, Baunov spent five years working as a senior editor at the independent news website Slon.ru, where he worked since its launch. Baunov has written on a wide variety of international and domestic topics, including modern Russian ideology, Russian foreign policy, Russia’s place in the modern world, Ukraine, the European economic crisis, the Arab Spring, and the 2011–2012 Moscow protests.
Before joining Slon.ru, Baunov was a reporter for Russian Newsweek, where he later headed the magazine’s team of international reporters. He has reported from a variety of places, including the polar areas of Norway, South Africa, Japan, and Chile.
Baunov turned to reporting after five years of service at the Russian Foreign Ministry, during which time he spent a number of years posted in Athens. This was in part due to his Master’s degree in Ancient Greek, Latin, and Classical Literature from Moscow State University in 1995.
In 2013, he was on the short list for the PolitProsvet journalism award and headed the award’s selection committee the following year.
Baunov is the author of WikiLeaks: Backdoor Diplomacy (Moscow, 2011), Mif Tesen (Moscow, 2015) and The End of Regime (Moscow, 2023). In 2016, he won a prestigious award from the Liberal Mission foundation for Mif Tesen.
It might seem that within BRICS, Russia should be overshadowed by the giant economies of China and India, especially the former. Yet what is happening is almost the opposite, with Russia effectively taking over the leading role in the club.
The exchange is not just the end of the story about the release of certain people, but also the beginning of a story about an injection of fresh blood into the Russian opposition abroad, and its relationship both with independent Russians inside the country, and with the outside world.
For Moscow, the significance of the Hungarian leader’s most recent visit had nothing to do with any peace proposal he may have put to Putin. It simply proved to the Kremlin that Russia is treading a similar path to the one it followed after 2014: from international outcast to a reestablishment of relations.
Unlike Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin chose to bring about his country’s international isolation himself. Modern Russia is not an inheritance, but a regime built by his own hands.
He presents it as a compromise, but it’s really an ultimatum.
To unpack the complex challenges Putin’s re-election presents to the West, Ukraine, and Russia itself, join an online discussion with Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center experts Alexander Baunov and Alexandra Prokopenko, moderated by Financial Times Russia correspondent Polina Ivanova.
In this episode of the Carnegie Politika podcast, host Alex Gabuev is joined by Alexander Baunov, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment and editor-in-chief of Carnegie Politika. Together, they delve into the implications of Russia’s official election results for the future of Putin’s political regime.
In this episode of the Carnegie Politika podcast, host Alex Gabuev is joined by Alexander Baunov, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment and editor-in-chief of Carnegie Politika. Together, they delve into the implications of Russia’s official election results for the future of Putin’s political regime.
A discussion about Putin's annual address to parliament ahead of elections.
The death of Alexey Navalny is being felt by leaders and regular people all over the world.
