Andrew Kuchins
Andrew Carrigan Kuchins is an American political scientist, expert on Russian politics and Kremlinologist.
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. As of 2009, he holds this position at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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:
