User:Matthew Maly

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Matthew Maly was born in 1958 in Moscow, USSR. Emigrated to the US in 1979, US citizen since 1985. Matthew graduated from Columbia University in 1984 and received a Master's Degree in Sociology from Yale University (1991). He has lived in Russia and Ukraine since 1992. For two years, Matthew worked as Expert with the Russian Ministry of Economics where Matthew specialized on economic consequences of envy.

Matthew is an author of four books: Understanding Russia (84 pages, in English, 1995), How to Make Russia a Normal Country (332 pages, in Russian, 2000 and 2002), Russia As It Is: Transformation of a Lose/Lose Society (320 pages, in English, 2003, in Estonian, 2006), and How to Succeed in Life and in Business (in Russian, 2006). Matthew has worked as manager of businesses and, on occasion, advised political campaigns.

In 1999, Matthew wrote a letter to the US Department of State alleging that the US Congress - funded Defense Enterprise Fund (“DEF’) may have misused $20M of its grant. DEF was supposed to fund conversion of the former Soviet producers of weapons of mass destruction, but its money went to purchase golf club memberships and such. The US government audits of DEF did not contradict Matthew’s allegations. As a consequence of his letter, Matthew did not die from hunger or lose his family: he only lost his career, his illusions, and his worldly possessions. Matthew currently lives in Moscow, Russia and works as an investment consultant.