Konstantin Gaaze is a Russian sociologist and journalist. From 2006 Gaaze was a political adviser to the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. Then he left civil service and began his career as a journalist, working as a reporter and political columnist for the Russian edition of Newsweek and as an editor for Moscow News daily, Interfax Newsagency, and the news magazine Big City. From 2015 to 2019, Gaaze had collaborated with the Carnegie Moscow Center. In 2017, he won the “Journalism as a Profession” award in the commentary category. From 2016 to 2020 Gaaze lectured in the history of sociology at the sociology department of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. In 2019 cofounded educational and research NGO 'Moscow Philosophical Circle'. Since 2021 Gaaze has hosted a popular Russian political podcast on one of the most reputable Russian media Meduza.