Peter Pomerantsev is an award-winning contributor to the London Review of Books. His writing has been published in the <i>Financial Times</i>, <i>NewYorker.com</i>, <i>Wall Street Journal</i>, <i>Foreign Policy</i>, <i>Daily Beast</i>, <i>Newsweek</i>, and <i>Atlantic Monthly</i>. He has also worked as a consultant for the EU and for think tanks on projects covering the former Soviet Union. He lives in London.