Pavel E. Felgenhauer is a Moscow-based defense analyst, a columnist in Novaya Gazeta and biologist. He is known for his criticism of President Vladimir Putin and of the Russian political and military elite.

Felgenhauer was born on December 6, 1951 in Moscow, Soviet Union, and graduated from Moscow State University in 1975. He served as researcher and senior research officer in the Soviet Academy of Sciences (Moscow) and received his Candidate of Sciences degree in biology from the Academy in 1988.

Felgenhauer published numerous articles on topics dealing with Russian foreign and defense policies, military doctrine, arms trade, military-industrial complex and so on. From January 1991 until January 1993 he was associated with the Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Moscow, as defense analyst and defense correspondent. From February 1993 till September 1999 Felgenhauer was member of the editorial board and chief defense correspondent of a Moscow daily Segodnya.