Alfred Kokh (PhD St. Petersburg School of Economics) is an economist, politician, businessman and journalist. From 1987 to 1990 he worked as a professor of economics, and then in 1990-1997 joined government service as a member of the cabinet from 1993-1997. He led the election company for the liberal block in 2003. After leaving the state service, he was the head of a few major companies, including the NTV television company and Gazprom-Media. Kokh is the author of The Selling of the Soviet Empire: Politics & Economics of Russia’s Privatization-Revelations of the Principal Insider (1998), Privatization in a Russian Way (in Russian, with A. Chubais, M. Boiko, D. Vasiliev and others, 1999), Case of Vodka (with Igor Svinarenko, 2003-2005), and many articles in Russian periodicals.

Alfred Kokh (PhD St. Petersburg School of Economics) is an economist, politician, businessman and journalist. From 1987 to 1990 he worked as a professor of economics, and then in 1990-1997 joined government service as a member of the cabinet from 1993-1997. He led the election company for the liberal block in 2003. After leaving the state service, he was the head of a few major companies, including the NTV television company and Gazprom-Media. Kokh is the author of The Selling of the Soviet Empire: Politics & Economics of Russia’s Privatization-Revelations of the Principal Insider (1998), Privatization in a Russian Way (in Russian, with A. Chubais, M. Boiko, D. Vasiliev and others, 1999), Case of Vodka (with Igor Svinarenko, 2003-2005), and many articles in Russian periodicals.

Alfred Kokh (PhD St. Petersburg School of Economics) is an economist, politician, businessman and journalist. From 1987 to 1990 he worked as a professor of economics, and then in 1990-1997 joined government service as a member of the cabinet from 1993-1997. He led the election company for the liberal block in 2003. After leaving the state service, he was the head of a few major companies, including the NTV television company and Gazprom-Media. Kokh is the author of The Selling of the Soviet Empire: Politics & Economics of Russia’s Privatization-Revelations of the Principal Insider (1998), Privatization in a Russian Way (in Russian, with A. Chubais, M. Boiko, D. Vasiliev and others, 1999), Case of Vodka (with Igor Svinarenko, 2003-2005), and many articles in Russian periodicals.