About Mark Ames

Mark Ames is the founding editor of "The eXile," a Moscow-based English-language newspaper and web magazine, co-author of the book The eXile: Sex, Drugs and Libel in the New Russia with Matt Taibbi, and author of V Rossiu s Lubovyu, a collection of translated columns published in Russia. He is a regular contributor to The New York Press and has been published in the Nation, Playboy, The San Jose Mercury News, Metro Silicon Valley, several Russian newspapers including Kommersant and Limonka, and recently started a regular column in The Guardian. He has lived in Russia for most of the last ten years.