Flemming Rose was born and raised in Copenhagen. He has a BA in Russian studies from the University of Copenhagen and has worked as a translator of Russian literature. Before he joined the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende as its first Moscow bureau chief in 1990, he worked for eight years as a translator and Danish teacher at the Danish Refugee Council. He was based in Moscow from 1990 until 1996 and covered the fall of the Soviet Union. Rose was Washington bureau chief for Berlingske Tidende from 1997 to 1999. Since 1999 he has been with Jyllands-Posten, Denmark’s biggest daily, first as Moscow correspondent, then as culture editor, and since 2010 he has been the paper’s foreign editor. He is the author of The Catastrophe That Didn’t Happen: Russia in Change 1992–1996 and American Voices, and has contributed essays to several anthologies.