He was born in Moscow in 1960 and has worked for the first independent newspapers on the new Russia, such as Nezavisimaya gazeta and Segodnya. He documented the events of 1991 and 1993 in Moscow, as well as military conflicts in Karabakh, Transnistria and Tajikistan. He currently works at the website Grani.ru and human rights center Memorial. He lives and works in Moscow.