Michel Eltchaninoff holds an advanced teaching certificate and a doctorate in philosophy. As a specialist in phenomenology and Russian philosophy, he recently published Dostoïevski. Le Roman du corps (Dostoevsksy: The Novel of the Body) and Dans la tête de Vladimir Poutine (Inside Vladimir Putin’s Mind), a book in which he explores the intellectual origins of the Kremlin’s ideology. He is currently deputy editor in chief of the monthly Philosophie Magazine.