Since 2000, he has been writing regular reports about Russian president Vladimir Putin for Kommersant as a member of the Kremlin pool.

After receiving a degree in Moscow State University Faculty of Journalism, he wrote for Moskovskaya Pravda, Moskovskiye Novosti, and the Institute for High Energy Physics newspaper.

[2] Since 1996, he has been working as a special correspondent for Kommersant along with Aleksandr Kabakov and Valery Panyushkin.

Vladimir Putin, Sergey Lavrov, Vladislav Surkov, Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven, Mikhail Prokhorov, Arkady Dvorkovich, Viktor Vekselberg have written columns for Russky pioner.

[4] In March 2022, Government of Canada put Kolesnikov on its sanction list for "peddling Russian disinformation and propaganda".