Alexey Pushkov is the author, anchor and director of Postscript, a daily TV analytical program at TV-Centre (3rd channel of the Russian national TV). He is also a political columnist for Nezavissimaya Gazeta. From 1995–98, he was director of public and media relations and director of foreign affairs at Russian Public TV (ORT). Pushkov has been a foreign policy columnist and editor-in-chief at Moskovskye Novosti. Prior to that he was a foreign policy advisor and speechwriter to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Pushkov is on the editorial board of Foreign Policy Quarterly, is a consultant to the foreign affairs committee of the State Duma and is a fellow and member of the World Economic Forum. He has a Ph.D. in the history of international relations from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. His research project is “The Russian Mass Media in Transition.”