David Satter

David Satter, a journalist and historian, is the author of six books on Russia and the Soviet Union and the director of a documentary film. A former Moscow correspondent of the Financial Times of London (1976-82), he has followed Russian events for almost five decades. In September 2013, he was accredited as a Radio Liberty correspondent in Moscow. Three months later, he was expelled from Russia becoming the first U.S. correspondent to be barred from Russia since the Cold War.

David Satter writes frequently on Russia for The Wall Street Journal and National Review, among other publications. He is regularly interviewed in both Russian and English by Radio Liberty, the Voice of America and the BBC. 

He is a former senior fellow of the Hudson Institute and a fellow of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). His most recent book is the second volume of Never Speak to Strangers and Other Writing from Russia and the Soviet Union., which  will be released in April. The first volume was published in 2020. 

David Satter’s other books are The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep: Russia’s Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin (2016), It Was a Long Time Ago and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past (2011), Darkness at Dawn: the Rise of the Russian Criminal State (2003) and Age of Delirium: the Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union (1996). A documentary film, “Age of Delirium,” based on the book, won the 2013 Van Gogh Grand Jury Prize at the Amsterdam Film Festival. His books have been translated into eight languages.