Professor John Russell

John Russell is Emeritus Professor of Russian and Security Studies at the University of Bradford. Graduated from the universities of Surrey (BSc) and Birmingham (PhD), he was twice exchange student at Moscow State University. He worked as simultaneous interpreter for NBC News throughout the Gorbachev era and specialised in all aspects of Soviet and post-Soviet society, East-West relations and International Terrorism. He taught at the University of Maryland (Europe) for 25 years and the University of Bradford for 23, and published the monograph Chechnya – Russia’s “War on Terror”, numerous chapters in collected works, journal articles, and reviews and has given lectures and interviews locally, nationally and internationally.