Hugh Barnes (born 1963) is a British

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and specialist on Russian matters. Born in

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, he was educated at

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and

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universities. He covered the wars in

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and

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for various newspapers in the UK and abroad. He has also been the director of the democracy and conflict programme at the Foreign Policy Centre. His publications include ''Special Effects'' (a novel), ''Understanding Iran'' (a report co-authored with Alex Bigham) and ''Gannibal: The Moor of Petersburg'', a biography of

Abram Gannibal Abram Petrovich Gannibal, also Hannibal or Ganibal, or Abram Hannibal or Abram Petrov (; c. 1696 – 14 May 1781), was a Russian Chief Military Engineer, General-in-Chief, and nobleman of African origin. As a child, Gannibal was captured by Ott ...

, the African soldier-scholar at the tsar's court who was also the great-grandfather of

Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin () was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.Basker, Michael. Pushkin and Romanticism. In Ferber, Michael, ed., ''A Companion to European Romanticism''. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. He is consid ...

. According to his Web site (undated) he is the managing editor of Oblomovism Ltd, an independent consultancy focusing on Russia and the CIS, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

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Living people 1963 births British journalists Alumni of the University of Cambridge Alumni of the University of Oxford {{UK-journalist-stub