There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

He has also served on the New York Public Library's board of trustees. Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from the New Yorker (with Henry Finder eds. The Devil Problem: And Other True Stories.

He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his book Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. He was named "Editor of the Year" by Advertising Age in 2000. Before joining The New Yorker Remnick was a reporter and the Moscow correspondent for The Washington Post.