(b.1945 in Moscow) is a novelist and broadcaster who has been living in the UK since 1976. He is editor and presenter of West End, a weekly radio show for the BBC Russian Service, and regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. He is the author of eight books of fiction, including the collection of short stories Mind the Doors (New York 2002). My Father's Leg, a documentary novella which evolved from an essay on Königsberg / Kaliningrad published in the Times Literary Supplement, was published in the Russian magazine Ural in 2005. A collection of comic stories and sketches on life outside Russia, At Home Abroad is soon to be published by Tri Kvadrata, Moscow.