David A Satter was born on August 1,1947 and is an American journalist and historian who writes about Russia and the Soviet Union.
12 Facts About David Satter
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David Satter has authored books and articles about the decline and fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of post-Soviet Russia.
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David Satter was the first researcher to advance the theory that Vladimir Putin and Russia's Federal Security Service were behind the 1999 Russian apartment bombings.
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David Satter has often been critical of Putin's rise to the Russian presidency.
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David Satter graduated from the University of Chicago and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
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David Satter worked for the Chicago Tribune and, from 1976 to 1982, as Moscow correspondent of the Financial Times.
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David Satter then became a special correspondent on Soviet affairs for the Wall Street Journal.
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David Satter was a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and the Jamestown Foundation, and a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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David Satter published several books about Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia.
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David Satter appears in the 2004 documentary Disbelief about the Russian apartment bombings made by director Andrei Nekrasov.
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In December 2013, the Russian government expelled David Satter from the country for allegedly committing "multiple gross violations" of Russian migration law; David Satter said he followed the procedures the Russian Foreign Ministry set out for him and said that the manner of his expulsion was a formula reserved for spies.
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On 14 July 2016, David Satter filed a request to obtain official assessment of who was responsible for the bombings from the State Department, the CIA and the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act.