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Robert Bridge
Robert Bridge is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and has worked in Moscow as a writer and journalist since 1996.
Former Editor of The Moscow News (Sept.2007 – Feb.2009), Bridge is now a regular political commentator on RT's website.
Although his primary focus is international politics, this column will touch upon a wide variety of topics.
Israel needs a "Pro-American Lobby"
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Fyodor Lukyanov
Fyodor Lukyanov is editor-in-chief of the journal Russia in Global Affairs, published in Russian and English with the participation of Foreign Affairs magazine.
He has an extensive background in different Russian and international media, in which he worked from 1990 to 2002 as a commentator on international affairs. Lukyanov now widely contributes to various media in the US, Europe and China. His monthly “Geopolitics” column appears in the Russian edition of Forbes magazine.
He is a member of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, an independent organization providing foreign policy expertise and also a member of the Presidential Council on Human Rights and Civic Society Institutions.
Russians prefer to achieve democracy without foreign assistance
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Dmitry Polikanov
Dr. Dmitry Polikanov began his career as a political analyst with a number of Russian think tanks and international organizations.
Being Vice President of the PIR Center (The Russian Center for Policy Studies), he frequently comments on major developments in Russian foreign policy. For almost ten years he has been a guest speaker at the NATO School in Oberammergau (Germany), where he was the first Russian lecturer.
Since 2007, Dr. Polikanov has been working with the ruling United Russia party. He now holds the position of Deputy Head of the Central Executive Committee and is deeply involved in various party activities, including the development of its strategy and ideology. Dmitry Polikanov was also one of the authors of the Human Resource Reserve project within the party.
Nation-building: Searching for the bricks
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Aleksey Pushkov
Aleksey Pushkov is a leading TV presenter, journalist and political scientist in Russia; Ph.D in history, professor teaching at Moscow State Institute of International Relations, member of the Presidium of the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy. Since 1993, member and permanent expert of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
From 1988 to 1991 he wrote speeches for Mikhail Gorbachev.
Authored over 400 scientific works and analytical articles in leading Russian and foreign periodicals. Pushkov is also author and presenter of the Postscriptum program on Center TV.
Bye bye, American lie
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Nikolay Svanidze
Nikolay Svanidze is a Russian TV journalist and political expert.
Svanidze has hosted the Russian TV programs “Mirror” and “Chronicles of History with Nikolay Svanidze” on Rossiya Channel and, since 2010, “Time’s Judgment” on Channel 5.
In November 2005, he became a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, where he is a member of the working group on international affairs. He is also a member of the president's historical truth commission.
In November 2008, Nikolay Svanidze participated in the creation of The Right Cause liberal party.
Putin offers ethnic diagnosis of Russia - but no real cure
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Sergey Strokan
Sergey Strokan is a journalist, essayist and a poet. He is also a political commentator with Russia's “Kommersant” Publishing House.
Mr. Strokan hosts “Red Line”, a weekly analytical program broadcast by The Voice of Russia in New York City.
He is the author of three poetry collections, a winner of the Maximilian Voloshin International Literary Award (2010) and a member of Union of Russian Writers.
US presidential race: Time to play the Russian card?