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
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
The post-Soviet states, also known as the former Soviet Union (FSU), the former Soviet Republics and in Russia as the near abroad (russian: links=no, ближнее зарубежье, blizhneye zarubezhye), are the 15 sovereign states that wer ...
as well as Western and Central Europe.
Biography
Simes was born in
Moscow to prominent
human rights lawyers in the
Soviet Union.
His mother,
Dina Kaminskaya
Dina Isaakovna Kaminskaya (russian: Ди́на Иса́аковна Ками́нская, 13 January 1919, Yekaterinoslav – 7 July 2006, Falls Church, Virginia) was a lawyer and human rights activist in the Soviet Union who was forced to emigrat ...
, was born in
Yekaterinoslav and his father, Konstantin Simis, was born in
Odessa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrativ ...
,
UkrSSR
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...
.
In 1977, his mother was expelled from the Soviet Union for working as a lawyer for
Soviet dissidents
Soviet dissidents were people who disagreed with certain features of Soviet ideology or with its entirety and who were willing to speak out against them. The term ''dissident'' was used in the Soviet Union in the period from the mid-1960s until t ...
.
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
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.
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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
Vyacheslav Alekseyevich Nikonov (; born 5 June 1956) is a Russian political scientist. He is a grandson of Vyacheslav Molotov, prominent Bolshevik and Soviet foreign minister under Joseph Stalin, whom he was named after, and Polina Zhemchuzhina ...
."Big Game" (Russian)
the official site of Channel One Russia
Works
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See also
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Mueller Report''
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Links between Trump associates and Russian officials
Since Donald Trump was a 2016 candidate for the office of President of the United States, numerous links between Trump associates and Russian officials and spies have been discovered by the FBI, Special counsel, and several United States congr ...
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Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
The Russian government interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election with the goals of harming the campaign of Hillary Clinton, boosting the candidacy of Donald Trump, and increasing political and social discord in the United States. Acc ...
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Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
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Timeline of post-election transition following Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
References
External links
* Dimitri K. Simes at the Center for the National Interest
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Entry on Dimitri K. Simes
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1947 births
Living people
People from Moscow
Moscow State University alumni
Soviet emigrants to the United States
Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
Magazine publishers (people)