David Satter | David Satter is an American journalist and longtime observer of Russia
and the former Soviet Union. He worked as a Moscow correspondent for the
Financial Times of London and has written extensively on Russian and
Soviet affairs for the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal. Satter has written two books about Russia: Age of Delirium: the Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union and Darkness at Dawn: the Rise of the Russian Criminal
State. His works have been translated into Russian, Estonian, Latvian, Czech, Portuguese and Vietnamese. In addition, he is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute
and visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced
International Studies (SAIS).