Andrew Meier

In the fall of 1995, I was awarded an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship to spend a year reporting on regional conflict in the former Soviet Union. Thanks to this fellowship, I was able to return to the former Soviet Union, this time traveling widely throughout the Caucacus and Central Asia. In November 1996, I joined the Moscow bureau of Time Magazine, where I continue to work as a staff correspondent, covering everything from politics to culture to what passes for business in the former Soviet lands. My writing on foreign affairs has also appeared in Harper's Magazine, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Wired, among many other U.S. and international publications. In 1999, I reported on Russia's financial crisis for a PBS/FRONTLINE documentary, "The Crash." I graduated from Wesleyan University in 1985, with Honors from the College of Letters, an interdisciplinary program in History, Philosophy and Literature. In 1989, I received a second B.A. from Oxford University, where I studied Russian Language and Literature. I first visited the USSR in 1983 as an undergraduate then living in Germany. I came for one week on a student tour. I fell in love with the place and the people, and vowed to return only when I had learned the language. Five years later, I did. In 1988, as a graduate student at Oxford, I came back to Moscow to study. And for the better part of the ensuing decade, from 1989 to the present, I have lived in Russia and traveled throughout the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Baltics. 

Expertise

Journalist, specializing in Russian and post-Soviet affairs