Edward Lucas | Edward Lucas is the Central and Eastern Europe correspondent for The Economist. Prior to his current role, he served as The Economist's Moscow bureau chief from 1998-2002. Lucas has been covering the region for more than 20 years, witnessing first-hand the final years of the last Cold War, the fall of the Iron Curtain and the collapse of the Soviet empire, Boris Yeltsin's downfall, and Vladimir Putin's rise to power. He holds a BSc from the London School of Economics and studied Polish at Jagiellonian University, Cracow. In 2008, Lucas published The New Cold War, his first book, where he explores what is in store for the new Russia, explains how it will affect the United States, and reveals how he believes the world should be reacting.
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Edward Lucas introduced Vladimir Bukovsky
