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Ilya Zhegulev

Former George F. Kennan Expert

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Reporter; Columnist; Author, The Tsar Move

Full Biography

Илья Жегулёв — автор книги «Ход Царём» о борьбе за власть и влияние в современной России. С 2002 года работал репортёром, затем обозревателем в независимых медиа. С 2006 года — в журнале SmartMoney, затем в Forbes, в издании Meduza и агентстве Reuters. Написал более сотни лонгридов, был номинирован на премию GQ «Человек года» как лучший журналист. Автор программы бакалавриата журналистики в Институте общественных наук РАНХиГС.

Ilya Zhegulev is the author of The Tsar Move (in Russian), about the fight for power and influence in today’s Russia. Since 2002, he has worked as a reporter and then as a columnist in the Russian independent media. From 2006, he worked for SmartMoney magazine, then for Forbes, Meduza, and Reuters. Zhegulev has written more than 100 long features and was nominated for the GQ Man of the Year award as the best journalist. He also developed the curriculum for the bachelor’s degree in journalism at the Institute for Social Sciences at RANEPA (Moscow).