Andrew Kuchins

Andrew Carrigan Kuchins
Born (1959-02-13) February 13, 1959 (age 60)[1]
NationalityUSA
EducationAmherst College
OccupationDirector of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies[2]
Known forClaiming in 2007 that Vladimir Putin could be killed before the presidential election in 2008[3][4][5][6]

Andrew Carrigan Kuchins is an American political scientist, expert on Russian politics and Kremlinologist.[citation needed]

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.[7] As of 2009, he holds this position at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.[2]

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:[4]

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.

— Andrew C. Kuchins[3]

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