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Ari Kagan is an American politician who is a member of the New York City Council from the 47th district, representing Bensonhurst, Coney Island, Gravesend, and Sea Gate.

Elected in November , he assumed office on January 1,

Career

Journalism

As a military journalist, he worked in Soviet Latvia with the newspapers Sovetskiy Tankist in Dobele and Dlya Rodiny! in Riga.

Kagan said that he was "lucky to work in various papers during the Gorbachev era of Glasnost and Perestroika when criticism of authorities was allowed and sometimes even encouraged".

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He told TabletMag that "I was not a dissident. But I was honest with myself, with my family, with my readers."

In Brooklyn, Kagan worked as a writer for the Russian-language newspapers Yevreiski Mir and Vecherniy New York.

He also presented a weekly television program on the Brooklyn-based Russian Tel