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Staff Profile: Ben Judah

Recent Commentary

• Europe's role in fighting corruption in Russia
  09 Mar 12
• The hobbled summit
  14 Dec 11
• Russia's post-BRIC election
  08 Dec 11
• Mother Russia, Father Putin
  15 Nov 11
• Same Putin, different Russia
  07 Oct 11

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Recent Blogs

• Syria - Why Russia said no
  07 Feb 12
• Blogger, politician, populist? - Alexey Navalny’s rise
  23 Jan 12
• Sovietology’s 10 lessons for Europe
  12 Dec 11
• Putin’s former foreign minister at ECFR London
  27 Sep 11
• UK Russia reset reluctance
  12 Sep 11

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recent press

• RIA Novosti
  29 Mar 12
• Russia Profile
  20 Mar 12
• Kommersant
  16 Mar 12
• EU Observer
  09 Mar 12

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Ben Judah joined the European Council on Foreign Relations as a Policy Fellow in September 2010. Previously he was a reporter based in Moscow with Reuters. His reporting from across the former Soviet Union - including on the Georgian War and the Kyrgyz revolution of 2010 has also featured in publications including The Financial Times, The Economist, Prospect and Foreign Policy.

A dual British and French national he spent his childhood in Romania and the former Yugoslavia before reading Modern History and Politics at Oxford.

Languages: Bilingual in English and French with Russian.

Areas of expertise: Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East.

Contact: +44 7979350579, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Twitter:Follow @b_judah

Recent publications include:

From Carthage to Kasserine, Standpoint Magazine, April 2011

Romania's evangelical Romanies, The Economist online, 17th January 2011

Tajikistan: In Search of the Yeti, Standpoint Magazine, July-August 2010

Letter from Moscow, Prospect, May 2010

Bishkek: Downfall of a Dictator, Standpoint Magazine, May 2010

Blood in the Streets of Bishkek, Foreign Policy, April 2010

Correspondent's Diary: Among The President's Men, The Economist, April 2010

Bishkek: Bloodsoaked Revolution, Standpoint Magazine, April 2010

Kaliningrad: Russia's Outpost in Europe's Heart, Standpoint Magazine, April 2010

Last Cake With A Russian Agent, Standpoint Magazine, January-February 2010

Siberia: In Search of the Gulag, Standpoint Magazine, January-February 2010

Russia: Opposition Growing Pains, ISN Security Watch, October 2009

Russia: Ominous Demographics, ISN Security Watch, October 2009

Democracy, Islamism in Kyrgyzstan, ISN Security Watch, October 2009

Putin's Empire Strikes Out, Standpoint Magazine, October 2009

Correspondent's Diary: Tripolar Disorder in Kyrgyzstan, The Economist, September 2009

Abkhazia: Optimism and Tension, ISN Security Watch, August 2009

South Ossetia: The War Way of Life, ISN Security Watch, August 2009

Kiev: The Rise of Yatsenyuk, ISN Security Watch, August 2009

Tatars: Kiev's Anti-Russian Allies, ISN Security Watch, July 2009

Black Russian, Standpoint Magazine, July-August 2009

UK: Disconnected Democracy, ISN Security Watch, July 2009

Finance: Harsh Truths, ISN Security Watch, November 2008

Caucasus Diary: Georgia at War, Standpoint Magazine, October 2008

Letter: Deceptive Calm in Nagorno-Karabakh, ISN Security Watch, September 2008

The New Map of Georgia, ISN Security Watch, August 2008

Letters from Georgia: Bloody Vengeance, ISN Security Watch, August 2008

The War of the Words, The New Republic, August 2008

Letters from Georgia: Nationalism and Fear, ISN Security Watch, August 2008

Correspondent's Diary, Beirut Long Division, The Economist, August 2008

Letters from Lebanon: March 14th, ISN Security Watch, August 2008

Assessing Stability in Syria, ISN Security Watch, August 2008

Britain Adrift, ISN Security Watch, July 2008

France's Ambitious, Uncertain Security Policy, ISN Security Watch, July 2008

Russian Opposition: Long Game, Long Odds, ISN Security Watch, April 2008

The US, Iran and a Monkey, ISN Security Watch, January 2008

Brown Sets New Course for UK in Iraq, ISN Security Watch, September 2007

Hizbullah: A State Within a State, ISN Security Watch, September 2007

Lebanon: Cold Civil War?, ISN Security Watch, September 2007

Gul Assumes Turkish Presidency, ISN Security Watch, August 2007

Turkey and Iraq: The Threat of War, ISN Security Watch, July 2007

Turkey: New Men in Town, ISN Security Watch, July 2007

French Press: Sick and Sycophantic, ISN Security Watch, July 2007

Erdogan's AKP Wins New Mandate, ISN Security Watch, July 2007

UK: The Real Fight Against Terror, ISN Security Watch, July 2007

After Secret Israel-Syria Negotiations, ISN Security Watch, July 2007

Another Day in France, ISN Security Watch, June 2007

Blair's Model Army, ISN Security Watch, April 2007

France: Awaiting Change, ISN Security Watch, April 2007

Ulster: New Deals, New Dangers, ISN Security Watch, April 2007