Luke Harding

Profile: Full name: Luke Harding Area of interest: Foreign affairs: Russia, Germany, Iraq, South Asia Journals/Organisation: The Guardian Email: luke.harding@guardian.co.uk Personal website: Website: Guardian.co / Luke Harding Blog: Comment is free...; The Blog Art & Entertainment Representation: Networks: http://twitter.com/#!/lukeharding1968 | http://www.linkedin.com/pub/luke-harding/b/b80/291

Biography: About: Education: Oxford University: English (edited Cherwell, the student paper); Atlantic College, United World Colleges Career: Sunday Correspondent; Evening Argus, Brighton; Daily Mail; joined The Guardian in 1996: South Asia correspondent (Delhi), 2000/2001; spent three months in Pakistan and Afghanistan covering the war against the Taliban, and much of 2003/2004 covering the Iraq war; Berlin correspondent, 2004/2006; Moscow bureau chief, 2007- Current position/role: Moscow bureau chief also writes/has written for: Other roles/Main role: Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: United World Colleges: personal statement Special Report: Strangers in a strange land The Guardian, 23rd May 2006 Broadcast media: Video: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011/sep/24/luke-harding-mafia-state-truth-about-putins-russia-video Controversy/Criticism: Guardian's Moscow correspondent expelled from Russia - Luke Harding's removal thought to be the first of a British staff journalist from the country since end of cold war - 7th February 2011 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Harding#Russian_expulsion Russian expulsion - Wikipedia] Awards/Honours: Foreign Press Association Foreign Story of the Year, 2002 - for reporting the siege in Mazar-i-Sharif in Iraq Scoops: Other:

Books & Debate: The liar: the fall of Jonathan Aitken OCLC 38572266 , with David Leigh and David Pallister, 1997. n.b. he covered the libel trial of Jonathan Aitken for The Guardian The group: pictures from previous lives, including: Luke Harding, The Siege of Mazar-i Sharif OCLC 184743046 , 2002 Wikileaks : inside Julian Assange's war on secrecy OCLC 698329584, 2011 (with David Leigh) Latest work: Mafia state - how one reporter became an enemy of the brutal new Russia OCLC 751751873, 2011 Speaking/Appearances: Debate:

The Guardian: Column name: no regular column Remit/Info: Russian affairs Section: Role: Foreign Correspondent Pen-name: Email: luke.harding@guardian.co.uk Website: Guardian.co / Luke Harding Commissioning editor: Day published: Regularity: Column format: Average length:

Articles: Boris Berezovsky and the dangers of being a Russian exile in the UK - Boris Berezovsky was the Kremlin's bogeyman for many years. He's not the only Russian exile in the UK to meet a suspicious death – so is Putin really silencing his enemies in Britain? - 26th March 2013 Letter from Mali: life is beginning to return to normal - Along the river Niger, satellite dishes are back up – and fishermen are casting their nets - 4th February 2013 Letter from Tbilisi: Georgia embraces democracy but destroys its past - Georgia's capital once enchanted with its ramshackle old buildings. But now they're being swept away by the country's modernising president - 15th October 2012 How a freedom-fighting pharmacist showed me the complex truth about Syria's sectarian conflict - The grinding 17-month war is being fought by many different factions, but the battle lines are not as clear as many think - 14th August 2012 Russian elections: Putin has six more years to draw level with Brezhnev - Despite the whispers of revolution, who would bet against Vladimir matching Leonid? - 5th March 2012 Germany and Russia: likely bedfellows - Angela Merkel isn't about to do anything to jeopardise Germany's 'special relationship' with Russia - 26th September 2009 Russia's cruel intention - In South Ossetia, I witnessed the worst ethnic cleansing since the war in the Balkans - 1st September 2008 A furious Kremlin is determined to bar Nato from its backyard but conflict will solve nothing - 20th July 2008 Moscow diary - Terry Wogan's remarks that Russia cheated their way to victory in Eurovision have gone down badly - 27th May 2008 From Russia with fraud - Ahead of last month's presidential election in Russia there was widespread suspicion that the poll was fixed in advance - 20th April 2008 Germany's loss of innocence - As potentially the most devastating terrorist plot to hit Europe is discovered, Germans must acknowledge the global threat - 6th September 2007 Win, win - The loser in Russia's elections last weekend was genuine democratic choice - 13th March 2007

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