He graduated from the Mathematics Department ofMoscow State University and has published more than a hundred scientific papers onapplied mathematics. Piontkovsky is a member of theAmerican Mathematical Society. Early in his career he wrote on the terminal control problem,[6] and nonstationary nonlinear systems.[7] Later papers were devoted to the mathematical modelling of strategic stability in the Cold War dual opponent system.[8]
In his article published on 11 January 2000 inSovetskaya Rossiya[9] and placed on theYabloko website[10] on the same day, was the first[11] to use the term "putinism" which he had defined as "the highest and final stage of bandit capitalism in Russia, the stage where, as one half-forgotten classic said, the bourgeoisie throws the flag of the democratic freedoms and the human rights overboard; and also as a war, "consolidation" of the nation on the ground of hatred against some ethnic group, attack on freedom of speech and information brainwashing, isolation from the outside world and further economic degradation". In the same article, Piontkovsky stated that putinism is the terminal shot to the head of Russia, and also he comparedYeltsin toHindenburg who in 1932 gaveHitler power over Germany.
Piontkovsky was an executive director of the Strategic Studies Center (Moscow) think tank that has been closed since 2006. He contributed regularly toNovaya Gazeta,The Moscow Times,The Russia Journal and the online journalsGrani.ru[12] and Transitions Online.[13] He is also a regular political commentator for theBBC World Service andRadio Liberty in Moscow. He was an outspoken critic of Putin's "managed" democracy in Russia and, as such, has described Russia as a "softtotalitarian regime"[14] and "hybrid fascism."[15]
Piontkovsky is the author of several books on the Putin presidency in Russia, including his most recent book,Another Look Into Putin's Soul.[16][17]
Piontkovsky is one of the 34 first signatories of the online anti-Putin manifesto "Putin Must Go", published on 10 March 2010. In his subsequent articles he has repeatedly stressed its importance and urged citizens to sign it.[18]
On 26 June 2013, Piontkovsky commented the case ofEdward Snowden by saying, "IfPushkov dares to draw a parallel between Snowden andSoviet dissidents, I must respond that none of them had anything to do with Soviet special services and none of them pledged not to betray state and departmental secrets."[19]
In 2016 he published an article "Бомба, готовая взорваться" ("A bomb that is ready to explode") about Russian-Chechen ethnic conflict.[21] When the General Prosecutor Office found his article "extremist" and started criminal prosecution[22] Piontkovsky at last left Russia on 19 February 2016.[23][24][25]
Piontkovsky adducesIgor Girkin's name among those of like-minded persons and says, "Theauthentic high-principled Hitlerites,trueAryansDugin,Prokhanov,Prosvirnin [ru],Kholmogorov,Girkin,Prilepin are a marginalized minority in Russia."[26][27] Piontkovsky adds, "Putin has stolen the ideology of the Russian Reich from the domestic Hitlerites, he has preventively burned them down, using their help to do so, hundreds of their most active supporters in the furnace of the UkrainianVendée."[26][27] In his interview withRadio Liberty, Piontkovsky says that maybe the meaning of the operation conducted by Putin is to reveal all these potentialpassionate leaders of social revolt, send them to Ukraine and burn them in the furnace of the Ukrainian Vendée.[28]
In an interview published on 11 February 2022 Piontkovsky argues that the ideology ofRashism is in many ways similar to German fascism (Nazism),[29] while in an interview published on 11 August 2021 he opines that the speeches and policies of Putin are similar to the ideas of Hitler.[30]
Piontkovsky, Andrei; Tsygichko, Vitali (August 1998). "Russia and NATO after Paris and Madrid: a perspective from Moscow".Contemporary Security Policy.19 (2):121–125.doi:10.1080/13523269808404196.
Piontkovsky, Andrei (17–23 January 2000)."Stasi for president"(PDF).The Russia Journal.3 (1): 5. Archived from the original on 13 October 2015. Retrieved13 October 2015.
Gelovani, Viktor; Yegorov, Vsevolod; Mitrophanov, Viktor; Piontkovsky, Andrey (1974).Решение одной задачи управления для глобальной динамической модели Форрестера [The solution of one task for Forrester’s world dynamics model].Автоматика и телемеханика (in Russian) (56). The Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Yurchenko, Valentin; Gelovani, Viktor; Piontkovsky, Andrey (1975).О задаче управления в глобальной модели World-3 [On the task of governing in world model WORLD-3] (in Russian). Moscow: The Institute for Problems of Management of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Yegorov, Vsevolod; Kallistov, Yuri; Mitrophanov, Viktor; Piontkovsky, Andrey (1980).Математические модели глобального развития [Mathematical models of world development] (in Russian). Leningrad: Гидрометеоиздат.
Исследование стратегической стабильности методами математического моделирования [The study of strategic stability by the methods of mathematical modeling] (in Russian). Moscow: The Institute of System Analysis of the USSR Academy of Sciences. 1988.
Gelovani, Viktor; Piontkovsky, Andrey; Yemeliyanov, Stanislav (1997).Эволюция концепций стратегической стабильности (Ядерное оружие в XX и XXI веке) [Evolution of conceptions of strategical stability (Nuclear weapons in the 20th and 21st centuries)] (in Russian). Moscow: РАЙМС.ISBN5876640840.
^Klimina, Anna (2011). "The futility of the neoliberal policy of deliberate market construction and the promise of an institutionalist alternative: the case of Russia's authoritarian transition".Journal of Economic Issues.45 (2):411–420.doi:10.2753/JEI0021-3624450218.S2CID154346707.
^Gelovani, V.A.; Piontkovsky, A.A.; Skerokhodov, A.P. (1990). "Strategic Stability Analysis through Mathematical Modeling".International Political Science Review.11 (2):243–260.doi:10.1177/019251219001100207.
^Piontkovsky, Andrey (11 January 2000). "Путинизм как высшая и заключительная стадия бандитского капитализма в России" [Putinism as highest and final stage of bandit capitalism in Russia].Советская Россия [Sovetskaya Rossiya] (in Russian). No. 3. Moscow.
^Fedorov, Valeriy; Baskakova, Yuliya; Byzov, Leontiy; Chernozub, Oleg; Mamonov, Mikhail; Gavrilov, Igor; Vyadro, Mikhail (2018). ""Путинизм" как социальный феномен и его ракурсы" ["Putinism" as a social phenomenon and its aspects]. In Fedorov, Valeriy (ed.).Выборы на фоне Крыма: электоральный цикл 2016–2018 гг. и перспективы политического транзита [Elections against the backdrop of Crimea: election cycle 2016–2018 and perspectives of political transit] (in Russian). Moscow:ВЦИОМ. pp. 587–602.ISBN978-5041523244.
