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Born in London, he was educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
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Hugh Barnes
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He covered the wars in Kosovo and Afghanistan for various newspapers in the United Kingdom and abroad. He has also been the director of the democracy and conflict programme at the Foreign Policy Centre. His publications include Special Effects (a novel), Understanding Iran (a report co-authored with Alex Bigham) and Gannibal: The Moor of St. Petersburg, a biography of Abram Gannibal, the African soldier-scholar at the tsar"s court who was also the great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin.
He is currently the managing editor of Oblomovism Limited, an independent consultancy focusing on Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States , Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
