About Steve LeVine

Steve LeVine covers foreign affairs and energy. He is based in Washington, D.C.

He was chief foreign affairs writer for BusinessWeek. Previously he was based in Central Asia and the Caucasus for 11 years — starting two weeks after the Soviet collapse through 2003. He ran The Wall Street Journal bureau for the eight-nation region, and before that covered it for The New York Times.

From 1988-1991, LeVine was Newsweek's Pakistan-based correspondent for that country and Afghanistan. Before that, he covered the Philippines for Newsday from 1985-1988.

The paperback of his latest book, Putin's Labyrinth, a profile of Russia through the life and death of a half dozen Russians, was published in 2009 by Random House.

LeVine is married to Nurilda Nurlybayeva. They have two daughters.