Nicolas Miletitch

Nicolas Miletitch is a former journalist with Agence France-Presse. A correspondent in Moscow from 1978 to 1981, he was expelled by the Soviet authorities for what they deemed overly close contacts with dissidents. He served as AFP bureau chief in Yugoslavia and Albania (1988-1994), bureau chief in Moscow for Russia and the former USSR (1988-2001), editor-in-chief at AFP’s Paris headquarters, and once again bureau chief in Moscow from 2010 to 2018.

He is the author of a film on Soviet dissidents, To the Success of Our Desperate Cause! (2018), and co-author with Jean Crépu of The Secret History of the Gulag Archipelago (2008) and The Gulag Archipelago: The Courage of Truth (2023).

Photo: Wiktoria Bosc, Jan Michalski Foundation