Dr Mark Galeotti is an internationally recognized expert on Russian politics and security. Educated at Cambridge and the LSE, he has taught in the UK, US, Russia and Czechia; been attached to the British Foreign Office; and has advised NATO and several governments. He now runs the consultancy Mayak Intelligence; and is an honorary professor at UCL and a senior associate fellow with RUSI and the Council on Geostrategy. He has written more than 30 books, including Putin's Wars and Forged in War.