Vadim Nikitin
Vadim is a freelance journalist and blogger whose articles have appeared in the New York Times/International Herald Tribune, The Nation, Dissent Magazine, The Moscow Times, The Abu Dhabi National, the South African Mail and Guardian and Sunday Tribune, and the Harvard Political Review.
He writes the Foreign Policy Association’s Russia blog and, previously, a popular Mail and Guardian Thought Leader column.
Born precariously close to the Soviet Union’s largest nuclear submarine base, Vadim was educated in Britain and graduated from Harvard with a thesis on American democracy promotion in the former Soviet Union.
Symposium Event
30 October 2026
Spies Like Us: The Rise of London’s Private Intelligence Industry
The now-infamous dossier on Donald Trump by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele shone rare light on the meteoric rise of London’s shadowy and largely unregulated private intelligence industry, one staffed largely by former spies and investigative journalists.
