Dimitri Kostantinovich Simes (russian: Дмитрий Константинович Саймс) is the president and CEO of The

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and publisher of its foreign policy bi-monthly magazine, ''

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''. Simes was selected to lead the Center in 1994 by former President

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, to whom he served as an informal foreign policy advisor and with whom he traveled regularly to Russia and other

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as well as Western and Central Europe.

Biography

Simes was born in

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to prominent

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lawyers in the

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. His mother, Dina Kaminskaya, was born in

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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

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and other Russian officials in Moscow. As publisher of ''

'', Simes was also involved in arranging Trump's April 27, 2016, speech at the

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. 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

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published an article about Simes' past encounters with unregistered Russian agent

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. Simes resides in Washington, DC, but remotely serves as a moderator of the Moscow-based political program ("Big Game") on

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, together with Vyacheslav Nikonov."Big Game" (Russian)
the official site of

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