Alexander Germanovich Baunov (, born December 4, 1969) is a Russian international policy expert, journalist, publicist, and former diplomat. Since 2015, he has been a senior associate at the Carnegie Moscow Center and later at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, as well as editor in chief of Carnegie.ru and then of CarnegiePolitika. Baunov is the author of the books ''WikiLeaks: Diplomacy by the Back Door'', ''It's a Small Myth'', and ''The End of the Regime: How Three European Dictatorships Ended'' (all in Russian). In 1995 he graduated from the Department of Classical Philology of the Philological Faculty of

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Lomonosov. From 1999 to 2003, he worked in the diplomatic service of the Russian

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at the Embassy in

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. From 2004 to 2008, he worked as a reporter, and then editor in the international department of the magazine ''Russian Newsweek.'' He published a number of guidebooks on Greece and its regions. From 2009 to 2015, he was a columnist and senior editor of the daily network edition www.slon.ru. In addition to slon.ru, he published in the newspaper ''

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,'' the magazine ''Big City,'' and ''Russian Life.'' He has published articles in ''

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.'' He regularly comments on domestic events and foreign policy issues in leading international media sources (''

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'', etc.) Since 2015, he has been the chief editor at the Carnegie Moscow Center. In 2013, he was a finalist for the "Politischevet" publicist prize. In 2014, he was the chairman of the selection committee for the "PolitProsvet" award. As of 2022, Baunov was research fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in

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., and in 2023 he was Visiting Fellow at the ''Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Baunov, Alex 1969 births Living people People from Yaroslavl Russian male journalists Moscow State University alumni Diplomats for the Russian Federation Place of birth missing (living people) The Moscow Times people Russian emigrants to Austria Russian political scientists People listed in Russia as foreign agents