Alexander Baunov

Alexander Baunov (born December 4, 1969) is a Russian journalist, publicist, and former diplomat.

In 1995 he graduated from the Department of Classical Philology of the Philological Faculty of Moscow State University Lomonosov.^[1] From 1999 to 2003, he worked in the diplomatic service of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Embassy in Greece. From 2004 to 2008, he worked as a reporter, and then editor in the international department of the magazine "Russian Newsweek."^[1] He published a number of guidebooks on Greece and its regions. From 2009 to 2015, he was a columnist and editor of the daily network edition www.slon.ru.^[1] In addition to slon.ru, he published in the newspaper Vedomosti, the magazine "Big City", and "Russian Life".^[2] Since 2015, he has been the chief editor at the Carnegie Moscow Center.^[1]

Baunov authored a series of articles on international and domestic topics - on Russia's foreign policy, the place of Russia in the modern world, Ukraine, the European crisis, the Arab revolutions, the crisis in the European Union, the Moscow protests of 2011-2012, the modern Russian ideology, Christianity and the church in the modern world, the case of Pussy Riot and others.

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.^[1]

Publications

Greek Islands: Athens, Attica, the islands of the Argo-Saronic Gulf, the Ionian Islands, Crete, the Dodecan Archipelago, the Cyclades, and the other islands of the Aegean Sea. - Moscow: Around the World, 2006. - 224 p. - ISBN 5-98652-053-X.
Crete: Chania, Rethymno, Heraklion, Chersonesus, Agios Nikolaos, Ierapetra: 47 towns and settlements, 34 objects of civil architecture, 33 churches and monasteries, 24 museums, 10 objects of antiquity, 8 gorges, 5 mosques, 6 caves, 1 synagogue. - Moscow: Around the World, 2008. - 213 p. - ISBN 978-5-98652-167-1.
Greece: Athens. Attica. Islands of the Agrosaronic Gulf. Peloponnese. Western Greece. Central Greece. Northern Greece: 76 cities and towns, about 40 museums, about 40 churches and monasteries, 16 schemes, more than 140 illustrations: practical information; Advice of the publishing house. - Moscow: Around the World, 2008. - 276 p. - ISBN 978-5-98652-122-0.
WikiLeaks: Diplomacy from the back door. - Moscow: Eksmo, 2011. - 320 s. - 8000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-699-48414-0.
Myth is small. - Moscow: Time, 2015. - 448 p. - 1000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9691-1406-7.

References

1 2 3 4 5 "Alexander Baunov". Carnegie Moscow Center. Retrieved 2017-05-30.
↑ "Speakers". www.dartmouth.edu. Retrieved 2017-05-30.

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