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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After the most recent round of diplomatic expulsions, the U.S. embassy in Moscow has lost vital staff — including those working on important bilateral issues, like Syria, Ukraine and arms control. For ordinary Russians, the cuts at the embassy mean it's virtually impossible to get a U.S. visa in Moscow anymore.
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The Trump administration's list includes people close to President Vladimir Putin as well as weapons manufacturing and energy firms.
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Russia's government has used the Siberian mall fire and diplomatic expulsions to help portray Putin is the only man who can protect and lead Russia through tough times. -
Tensions between Russia and the West are ratcheting up as the Russian Foreign Ministry announced the expulsion of 60 U.S. officials and the closure of the U.S. Consulate in St. Petersburg.
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Russians are angry about a mall fire in Siberia that killed 64 people. And, the U.S. and other countries expelled Russian diplomats after an ex-Russian spy in Britain was exposed to a nerve agent.
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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the expulsion of Russian diplomats are the result of "colossal blackmail" by the U.S.. That so many nations are taking part, he said, shows how few truly independent countries are left in the world.
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Russian diplomats are being expelled across the U.S. and Europe after Russia allegedly poisoned a former Russian double agent living in the U.K. NPR looks at Russia's response to the expulsions.
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The fire broke out in a shopping mall in Siberia, according to Russia's Emergencies Minister. Many of the missing are children. It's Russia's deadliest fire in years.
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Vladimir Putin has handily won a fourth term as Russia's president, with many voters telling NPR they saw no other viable candidates. -
Putin has been declared the winner in Sunday's Russian election, giving him a fourth term as president. Critics say the vote was staged, and the only questions are over the size of Putin's majority.
