Andrei Zakharov, a digital and investigative journalist, has been selected as the Harriman Institute’s Klebnikov Civil Society Fellow for 2024. Mr. Zakharov worked at Fontanka.ru in St. Petersburg as a news reporter and economy section editor before joining RosBusinessConsulting (RBC) Magazine as an investigative reporter in 2016. He moved from RBC Magazine to the BBC Russian Service in 2018 and has contributed investigative journalism pieces for Proekt Media (2020 and 2023).
More recently, Mr. Zakharov has focused on his own media projects (a Telegram channel, a podcast, and live streams) and has participated in joint investigative projects with different media organizations. Mr. Zakharov is the author of the book “Crypto. How Cypherpunks, Programmers
and Rogues Bound Russia With Blockchain” (2023).