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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Russian authorities seized an ally of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and shipped him off to do military service in the Arctic.
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Russian leader Vladimir Putin has criticized the impeachment of President Trump. Speaking at his annual press conference in Moscow, Putin called the charges "far-fetched."
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"U.S. military aid represents a physical manifestation of American support, which is essential," retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges tells NPR. The U.S. has given $1.5 billion in such aid in the past 5 years. -
The U.S. accounts for almost all the foreign military assistance that Ukraine receives in its fight against Russia. Little is actually used on the front line, but it provides symbolic support.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will meet in Paris on Monday in an effort to end the war in Eastern Ukraine which has cost 13,000 lives.
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President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time in Paris on Monday to discuss ways to end the fighting in eastern Ukraine.
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will have his first meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Paris, in an effort to end a five-year conflict in eastern Ukraine that has cost 13,000 lives. -
Ukraine's new president will have his first meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Paris on Monday, in an effort to end the five-year conflict in eastern Ukraine that has cost 13,000 lives.
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We look at what we learned from four constitutional law scholars who testified about impeachment Wednesday. Also, we look at how Ukrainians are responding to the impeachment hearings.
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Ukraine's attempts to distance itself from the impeachment process hit a snag on Wednesday, when U.S. and local media reported that President Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani had returned to Kyiv.
