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Michael Valentine Guybon Glenny (26 September , London – 1 August , Moscow) was a British lecturer in Russian studies and a translator of Russian.!
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Misha Glenny
British journalist and broadcaster
Michael V. E. "Misha" Glenny[1] (born 25 April 1958) is a British journalist and broadcaster, specialising in southeast Europe, global organised crime, and cybersecurity.
He has been Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen) in Vienna, Austria since 2022.[2]
Early life and education
Glenny was born in Kensington, London, the son of Juliet Mary Crum and Michael Glenny, a Russian studies academic and translator.[3] His parents separated when he was 13.
Glenny described his ancestry as "three-quarters Anglo-Celtic and a quarter Jewish".[4] He is multilingual, speaking English, German, Serbo-Croat, Czech and Portuguese.[5][6]
Career
He became Central Europe correspondent for The Guardian and later the BBC.
He specialised in reporting on the Yugoslav Wars in the early 1990s that followed the breakup of Yugos