Justin Lifflander has served as the business editor of The Moscow Times since January 2011. He joined the paper in September 2010 as deputy business editor. He came to Moscow in October 1987 as a contractor for the U.S. Embassy. In December 1988 he became an inspector on the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces treaty, where he worked at the Votkinsk Machine Building Factory as a gardener, sous-chef and missile inspector. He then spent twenty years working for Hewlett-Packard Russia. He also founded, ran and sold two technology start-ups. In 2000 he became a Russian citizen. Prior to moving to the Soviet Union, he worked for four years as a radio journalist in the United States at WVBR Ithaca, WOWO Fort Wayne and WTIX New Orleans.