Kirill Kharatian is a journalist and editor with more than 35 years of experience in Russian media. He has held senior editorial positions at Kommersant, Expert, Gazeta.Ru, Moskovskie Novosti, and Vedomosti, where he served as deputy editor-in-chief from 2005 to 2020. He later founded and edited VTimes and VPost and worked as an editor and presenter at Khodorkovsky Live.