Constantine Pleshakov

Constantine Pleshakov is a Russo-American author born in Yalta, Crimea, in 1959. A former foreign policy analyst at the Institute of U.S. and Canada Studies in Moscow, he emigrated to the United States in 1998. He teaches at Amherst College. Pleshakov's new book - "The Crimean Nexus: Putin's War and the Clash of Civilizations" - is scheduled to be published by Yale University Press in January 2017. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.