Alex Melnikoff

The author was born in the late Soviet Union and belongs to a generation that remembers it not from history books but from lived experience — the shortages, the queues, the propaganda, and the peculiar logic of a system that was already dying while insisting it was eternal.

He fell in love with America through flickering television screens — Wall Street with Charlie Sheen, crime dramas, a civilization that seemed impossibly far away. That love never went anywhere. He still closely follows the political and economic trends of the United States — because what begins there eventually spreads everywhere else.

He witnessed the USSR collapse in real time, received a Soviet education that prepared him for a Soviet economy that no longer existed, then spent the next two decades building something of his own anyway.

He has lived through every major shift of the past thirty years. And remains genuinely curious about where it all leads next.