
In 1978, he moved with his parents to West Germany, after his father, broadcaster and poet Igor Pomerantsev, was arrested by the KGB for proliferating anti-Soviet literature. Pomerantsev was born into a Russian speaking Jewish family in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR in 1977.


Pomerantsev has written two books about Russian disinformation and propaganda: Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible (2014) and This Is Not Propaganda (2019). He is also an associate editor at Coda Media, a position he has held since at least 2015. He is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics, where he co-directs the Arena program.

Peter Pomerantsev (Russian: Питер Померанцев born Pyotr Igorevich Pomerantsev, Пётр Игоревич Померанцев born 1977) is a Soviet-born British journalist, author and TV producer.
