Yevgenia Albats

Yevgenia M. Albats is a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, author, and radio host. Since 2007 she has been the political editor and then editor-in-chief and CEO of The New Times, a Russian-language independent political weekly originally based in Moscow. In 2004, Albats started hosting Absolute Albats, a talk-show on Echo Moskvy, the last remaining liberal radio station in Russia. Albats was an Alfred Friendly Press Fellow assigned to the Chicago Tribune in 1990 and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1993. She graduated from Moscow State University in 1980 and received her Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University in 2004. She has been a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) since its founding in 1996. Albats taught at Yale in 2003-2004. She was a full-time professor at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, teaching the institutional theory of the state and bureaucracy, until 2011 when her courses were canceled at the request of top Kremlin officials. In 2017 Albats was chosen as an inaugural fellow at Kelly’s Writers House and Perry House at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2019-2020 she taught authoritarian politics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 2019 and again in 2020-2021 she was a senior scholar at the Davis Center. Albats is the author of four independently researched books, including one on the history of the Russian political police, the KGB, whose graduates are running the country today.