As a high-school freshman studying Russian at the height of the Cold War, Jill Dougherty developed an obsession with Russia. Over the next half-century, she studied in Leningrad, traveled across the USSR, lived in Moscow, and reported on the presidencies of Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Vladimir Putin. She initially belied that Putin was an economic reformer. His quarter-century of repression changed her mind. My Russia charts Russia's evolution through the eyes of an American with rare insight into Russia, its people, and its leaders. 

Jill Dougherty served as CNN's Moscow Bureau Chief for almost a decade. She was a White House correspondent for CNN; Foreign Affairs Correspondent covering the U.S. State Department; U.S. Affairs Editor; and Managing Editor CNN International, Asia-Pacific, based in Hong Kong. She currently is a CNN on-air Contributor, commenting on Russia-related issues and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies. She has pursued research on Russia and the media as a fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government; at the Woodrow Wilson Center; and at the International Centre for Defence and Security in Tallinn, Estonia. Her articles, book reviews and commentary have appeared in thealtantic.com; politico.com; wilsonquarterly.com; washingtonpost.com; cnn.com and other publications. She is the author of My Russia: What I Saw from the Kremlin.