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Nationality
  
USA

Name
  
Andrew Kuchins

Education
  
Amherst College



Born
  
February 13, 1959 (age 65) (
1959-02-13
)

Occupation
  
Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

Known for
  
Claiming in 2007 that Vladimir Putin could be killed before the presidential election in 2008

Books
  
The North Caucasus: Russias, Alternative futures for Russia to, Russia and the West: The Ener, Russia's 2020 Strategic

Similar People
  
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Andrew Carrigan Kuchins is an American political scientist, expert on Russian politics and Kremlinologist. He is an internationally renowned expert on Russian foreign and domestic policies who publishes widely and is frequently called on by business, government, media, and academic leaders for comment and consulting on Russian and Eurasian affairs.

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Kuchins was the Director of the Russian and Eurasian Program and a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. Previously, he was Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. As of 2009, he holds this position at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

In December 2007, Kuchins wrote a controversial report in which he developed a scenario where Vladimir Putin could be killed before the Russian presidential elections in 2008:

Russia and the world were stunned by the assassination of Vladimir Putin as he walked out of a midnight mass at the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow on January 7, 2008.

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