Gregory Feifer, Author at Institute of Current World Affairs

Gregory Feifer is an author, journalist and executive director of the Institute of Current World Affairs. During his fellowship in Russia from 2000 to 2002, he reported on political culture, politics and society during President Vladimir Putin’s first term. He lived in Russia for a decade, including as NPR’s Moscow correspondent. His books include Russians: The Power behind the People, The Great Gamble, a history of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, and Spy Handler, cowritten with former KGB colonel Victor Cherkashin. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Harvard University.

Posts and Dispatches from Gregory Feifer:

GMF: Gregory Feifer and Susan Corke on transatlantic stress
The coronavirus pandemic is a pivotal moment for the transatlantic alliance, a brutal, devastating test about collective responsibility and shared values no side can afford to waste....
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The New Republic: Gregory Feifer on Putin’s strategy
The Russian president is expertly maneuvering toward power for life by cloaking his moves as the reluctant bride....
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Foreign Policy: Gregory Feifer on Trump and Orban
The White House is sacrificing US interests for a partnership that's no longer strategically sound....
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The Atlantic: Gregory Feifer on the Soviet war in Afghanistan
KGB poisonings, Coca-Cola and other facts about the 1979 invasion belie the White House version of events....
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The New Republic: Gregory Feifer on the fight for liberalism in Hungary
Closing a university is a threat to the transatlantic alliance. ...
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Reuters: Gregory Feifer on European fears over the Trump-Putin summit
Uncertainty about where the Trump administration is ultimately heading is shaking a continent swept up in an anti-immigrant, right-wing populist tide....
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Foreign Affairs: Gregory Feifer on Putin and Russia’s presidential election
How he will act in the years to come will have much to do with how he came to power....
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Feifer interviewed for Makeup: A Weapon of the Cold War?
Former Fellow and current Interim Executive Director Gregory Feifer (Russia, 2000-2002) was interviewed for an article published by Racked.com. The article underscores the difference in ideologies and values between the Soviet Union and the United States, and discusses the manner in which makeup was a part of the latter’s arsenal during the Cold War. Click...
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Book chat with Suzy Hansen about “Notes on a Foreign Country”
“You cannot grow up in the second half of the 20th century in the United States of America and live abroad in the 21st century and not feel it all the time,” writes former ICWA fellow Suzy Hansen in her new book Notes on a Foreign Country. Out this month from Farrar, Straus and Giroux,...
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ICWA member Dick Dudman dies
ICWA member Richard Dudman, a legendary reporter who covered some of the biggest stories of his day, died on August 3 at the age of 99. During a career that spanned more than three quarters of a century—much of it with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch—Dick witnessed wars, revolutions and many other seminal events, including Fidel Castro’s...
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