Alexander von Hahn is a politologist, culturologist, writer and investigative journalist. Born in Russia, he was educated in St. Petersburg, Moscow and London. After a brief tenure as an adviser to the Estonian prime minister in the early 1990s, for over a decade von Hahn headed a Moscow branch of a German investment bank.Currently, he is an independent political analyst. His area of expertise lies in the Russian-speaking Diaspora's struggle against authoritarianism and political repression, while he has authored many articles on the issue.