Alexey is an Associate Director in Control Risks’ Europe geopolitical and country risk team. He covers the post-Soviet region, with a special focus on Russia and Central Asia. He advises a diverse range of clients on political, operational, security, and sanctions risks in the region.
Recent tasks that Alexey has worked on include:
Prior to joining Control Risks, Alexey spent more than a decade as a journalist in Moscow, providing coverage for Russian and foreign media outlets, including Russia’s only English-language daily newspaper, The Moscow Times, as well as NBC’s Moscow bureau. He was formerly a Senior Consultant in Control Risks’ business intelligence practice.
He defended a PhD at the Institute for General History at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He also completed a research fellowship at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford, where he analysed the media regulation practices of the Russian government.
He speaks English, Russian, German, and some Norwegian. He reads Icelandic and Ukrainian.