Dimitri Kostantinovich Simes (russian: Дмитрий Константинович Саймс) is the president and CEO of The Center for the National Interest and publisher of its foreign policy bi-monthly magazine, ''The National Interest''. Simes was selected to lead the Center in 1994 by Presidency of Richard Nixon, former President Richard Nixon, to whom he served as an informal foreign policy advisor and with whom he traveled regularly to Russia and other former Soviet states as well as Western and Central Europe.

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Simes was born in Moscow to prominent Human rights in the Soviet Union, human rights lawyers in the Soviet Union. His mother, Dina Kaminskaya, was born in Yekaterinoslav and his father, Konstantin Simis, was born in Odessa, UkrSSR. In 1977, his mother was expelled from the Soviet Union for working as a lawyer for Soviet dissidents. Simes authored a book ''After the Collapse: Russia Seeks its Place as a Great Power'' (published by Simon and Schuster). In February 2015, Dimitri Simes met with Russian president Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials in Moscow. As publisher of ''The National Interest'', Simes was also involved in arranging Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections#April 2016, Trump's April 27, 2016, speech at the Mayflower Hotel. In the speech, Trump outlined his vision for American foreign policy and called for greater cooperation with Russia.book's Index
/ref> In September 2018, historian Yuri Felshtinsky published an article about Simes' past encounters with unregistered Russian agent Maria Butina. Simes resides in Washington, DC, but remotely serves as a moderator of the Moscow-based political program ("Big Game") on Channel One Russia, together with Vyacheslav Nikonov."Big Game" (Russian)
the official site of Channel One Russia

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