FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 17, 2006
CONTACT: Jennifer Linker, +1 202/939-2372, jlinker@CarnegieEndowment.org

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is pleased to announce that Andrew Kuchins is returning as Director of the Russian and Eurasian Program and Senior Associate. Kuchins held this position from 2000 to 2003 and since then has spent almost three years as Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center.

“Andy comes back to Washington after a significant and turbulent period in Russia’s domestic politics,” said Jessica Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment. “Andy’s extensive work at the Carnegie Moscow Center helped to cultivate his insight into these politics and Russia’s foreign policy and we look forward to benefiting from his expertise as Director of the Russian and Eurasian Program.”

As Senior Associate and Director, Kuchins will focus on the increasingly complex U.S.-Russian relationship, the burgeoning ties between Russia and China, and the numerous foreign policy challenges facing these world powers. Due to his recent experience in both the U.S. and Russia, Kuchins is able to provide an insider’s perspective on the volatile world of Washington-Moscow diplomacy. With offices in both capitols, the Carnegie Endowment is uniquely situated to bridge the gap between these vital policy-making communities.

Previously, Kuchins served as associate director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, as a senior program officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and as executive director of the Berkeley-Stanford Program on Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies.

Kuchins has made countless media appearances and is widely published in newspapers and academic journals. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Johns Hopkins SAIS.  He is the author of Russia After the Fall (Carnegie, 2002) and serves on the editorial board of the journal Demokratizatsiya.

For more information about Carnegie’s Russian and Eurasian Program, visit www.CarnegieEndowment.org/Russia
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