Kirill Rogov

Kirill Rogov is a well-known political analyst in Russia and is frequently quoted in the West by the Economist, New York Times, and the Washington Post. He regularly publishes his columns and analysis in Forbes Russia, Vedomosti, Novaya Gazeta, RBC and also in Suddeutsche Zeitung and Financial Times.

He is a senior researcher with the INDEM Foundation and a Board Member of the Liberal Mission Foundation.

In the late 1990s, he started his career in journalism. In 1998 he co-founded the news and opinions portal “Polit.Ru” (and was editor-in-chief of Polit.ru from 1998–2003). Polit.Ru was one of the first Russian on-line media sites and played a prominent role in the development of Russian on-line journalism and independent media, providing the main platform for expert discussion among Russian liberals at the time. During the 2000s, Rogov was columnist with the leading Russian business daily Vedomosti, and from 2005-2007 he was deputy editor-in-chief at the Kommersant daily, another leading Russian newspaper. While at Kommersant, he introduced and supervised the “Commentaries and Opinion” page.

From 2007-2015, he was the leading research fellow at the Institute for Economic Policy (Gaidar Institute) and the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA). In 2012-2013, he coordinated the work of Gaidar Institute on the Russian economic development reports for the Russian Government and the Ministry of Economic Development. In 2015, he edited the analytical report “Monitoring of the Current Economic Situation” published by the Gaidar Institute and RANEPA.