Lucian Kim
Lucian Kim is NPR's international correspondent based in Moscow. He has been reporting on Europe and the former Soviet Union for the past two decades.
Before joining NPR in 2016, Kim was based in Berlin, where he was a regular contributor to Slate and Reuters. As one of the first foreign correspondents in Crimea when Russian troops arrived, Kim covered the 2014 Ukraine conflict for news organizations such as BuzzFeed and Newsweek.
Kim first moved to Moscow in 2003, becoming the business editor and a columnist for the Moscow Times. He later covered energy giant Gazprom and the Russian government for Bloomberg News.
Kim started his career in 1996 after receiving a Fulbright grant for young journalists in Berlin. There he worked as a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and the Boston Globe, reporting from central Europe, the Balkans, Afghanistan, and North Korea.
He has twice been the alternate for the Council on Foreign Relations' Edward R. Murrow Fellowship.
Kim was born and raised in Charleston, Illinois. He earned a bachelor's degree in geography and foreign languages from Clark University, studied journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, and graduated with a master's degree in nationalism studies from Central European University in Budapest.
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The dacha — a Russian summer home that can be anything from a shack to an oligarch's faux chateau — is both an escape from the city and a state of mind that permeates the country's life and culture. -
The recently expanded law says that freelance journalists, YouTube bloggers and practically anyone else who receives money from abroad and voices a political opinion can be considered a foreign agent.
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U.S. climate envoy John Kerry is in Moscow, making him the highest-ranking Biden administration official thus far to visit the Russian capital.
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President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin held their much-anticipated summit in Geneva. They talked for about three hours. What are the outcomes of that meeting for both countries?
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The fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin began refusing food on March 31 to demand medical care for leg and back pain.
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The health of Putin critic Alexei Navalny is rapidly deteriorating, his team says, as he continues a hunger strike. His allies are calling for nationwide protests.
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President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin may meet in person, after Biden's suggestion of a face-to-face summit during their telephone call on Tuesday.
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Exiled opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya says she's hoping for support from the Biden administration as she calls for more anti-government protests against Alexander Lukashenko's government.
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Like many Russians, NPR's Moscow Correspondent Lucian Kim thought long and hard about whether he should get the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine. He finally decided to go ahead on Wednesday.
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Recent protests in Russia demanding the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny spread well beyond Moscow, and revealed a wider dissatisfaction with the Kremlin.
