Moscow) Journalist by training, collaborator during the 90's with the editorial department of the RFI, the BBC and Radio Libertad. He writes a column in the Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper. He has published four compilations of his chronicles: Alphabet of Life, Love, Daddy's Beard and Kirchen, Küche, Kinder. The volume, New Russian Alphabet, is made up of a selection of texts extracted from the first two.