Mark Franchetti /

Mark Franchetti, Moscow correspondent of the Sunday Times of London, eloquent in five languages, has covered the former Soviet Union since 1997, with time out for wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. In 2003, he won the British Press Award for his coverage of the Moscow theatre siege; he twice entered the building to interview Chechen terrorists holding hostages. In 2004, he won a Foreign Press Association Award for his reportage on the killing of Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines. On the war’s third day, Iraqis ambushed the Marines he accompanied. Eighteen Americans died in a fierce battle, and survivors went on a rampage. Franchetti gained access to Andrei Lugovoi, the suspect in the Alexander Litvinenko murder, for a British TV documentary. After upheaval in Georgia, he depicted the new Russia in a primetime BBC Panorama series.

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Contributions

Putin, Power, and a New Kind of Russia

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