Expert Council

Andrei Zolotov Jr has more than 30 years of career in journalism behind him. He began in the beginning of th 1990s as an assistant to The Christian Science Monitor Moscow correspondent and parallel to that served as Moscow correspondent for the Ecumenical News International (ENI) – a news and features agency affiliated with the World Council of Churches. From 1997 to 2003 Mr. Zolotov was a staff writer at The Moscow Times – quality English-language daily newspaper, where he covered the media, religion, politics and general news. In 2003 he was invited by a newly appointed progressive management at the RIA Novosti news agency to create a quality English-language publication on Russia for Russia experts abroad. The project was launched in 2003 under the name Russia Profile and continued publication, first as a monthly print magazine and daily updated website and then only online till 2012. For the following three years Mr. Zolotov served as RIA Novosti correspondent in Vienna, Austria. Since 2015 he has contributed articles primarily on the arts for a number of publications, while shifting his main interest to the study of Vienna's history and culture and working as a licensed Austrian tour guide.