Mark MacKinnon (born 1974) is a Canadian journalist, currently senior international correspondent for one of Canada's national newspapers, ''
The Globe and Mail
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''. A graduate of
Carleton University
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in Ottawa, Ontario, he is a seven-time winner of the
National Newspaper Award The National Newspaper Awards (french: link=no, Concours canadien de journalisme) are prizes awarded annually for the best work in Canadian newspapers.
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, Canada's top reporting prize, and was named Canada's prin Journalist of the Year for 2016.
Now based in London, his previous postings include Beijing, Moscow and the Middle East.
MacKinnon first book, ''The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union'' was published in 2007 by
Random House
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in Canada, and by Carroll and Graf in the United States. It is "a nuanced study that demonstrates the continuity of conflict between the U.S. and Russia", and discusses the emergence of a new "
Cold War
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" in the 2000s (decade).
He is also the autho The China Diaries an e-book of MacKinnon's travels by train through the China that was published in 2013.
He has twice been named to Foreign Policy magazine's Top 100 global "Twitterati" for his commentary via the social media network
Twitter
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.
MacKinnon has interviewed Burmese opposition leader
Aung San Suu Kyi
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, Israeli President Shimon Peres, Ukrainian President
Viktor Yushchenko
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As an informal leader of th ...
, Ukrainian Prime Minister
Yulia Tymoshenko
Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko ( uk, Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, ; Hrihyan ();Lee Myung-bak, Lebanese Prime Minister
Saad Hariri
Saad El-Din Rafik Al-Hariri ( ar, سعد الدين رفيق الحريري, translit=Saʿd ad-Dīn Rafīq al-Ḥarīrī; born 18 April 1970) is a Lebanese-Saudi politician who served as the prime minister of Lebanon from 2009 to 2011 and 2016 ...
Thaksin Shinawatra
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Eduard Shevardnadze
Eduard Ambrosis dze Shevardnadze ( ka, ედუარდ ამბროსის ძე შევარდნაძე}, romanized: ; 25 January 1928 – 7 July 2014) was a Soviet and Georgian politician and diplomat who governed Georgia fo ...