Dimitri Simes

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Dimitri K. Simes
Дмитрий Саймс
Dimitri K. Simes 2009.jpg
Simes in 2009
Born1947 (age 73–74)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Alma materMoscow State University
OccupationPresident of Center for the National Interest

Dimitri Kostantinovich Simes (Russian: Дмитрий Константинович Саймс b. 1947) 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 as well as Western and Central Europe.

Before the center was established, Simes served as chairman of the Center for Russian and Eurasian Programs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he was also a senior associate. Earlier, he was the director of the Soviet and East European Research Program and a Research Professor of Soviet Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University. Prior to his work at SAIS, Simes was a senior research fellow and subsequently the director of Soviet Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In addition to teaching at SAIS, Simes taught at the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University.

Biography[]

Simes was born in Moscow on October 17, 1947 to prominent human rights lawyers in the Soviet Union.[1][2] His mother, Dina Kaminskaya, was born in Yekaterinoslav and his father, Konstantin Simis, - in Odessa, UkrSSR.[1][2] Konstantin Simis was long-time undercover member of Radio Liberty.[3] In 1977, his mother was expelled from the Soviet Union for crimes connected with protection of interests of Soviet dissidents.[2] Simes graduated with an M.A. in history from Moscow State University. From 1967 to 1972, he was a research assistant and later a research associate at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations where he also studied at a post-graduate level prior to emigrating to the U.S. in 1973.

Simes authored a book After the Collapse: Russia Seeks its Place as a Great Power (published by Simon and Schuster).[4] He was a columnist for The Christian Science Monitor, and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. He has served as a consultant to the National Intelligence Council as well as to CBS and NBC.

In February 2015, Dimitri Simes met with Russian president Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials in Moscow.[5] 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.[6]

In September 2018, historian Yuri Felshtinsky published an article about Simes' past encounters with unregistered Russian agent Maria Butina.[7] However, a report from the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence stated that Simes became concerned early on about Butina's conduct and directed his colleagues to avoid any communication with her. [8]

In April 2020, Simes wrote the cover story for The National Interest in which he called the coronavirus crisis a "perfect storm" which inflicted significant damage due to a series of domestic and international failures to preempt and respond to the outbreak.[9]

In February 2021, Simes wrote an article on the precarious state of US-Russian relations in which he called Russia a "determined adversary of the United States," and noted that "the future of U.S.-Russia relations is largely America’s choice and it will depend on how deftly the Biden administration defines its fundamental interests—either as a hegemonic democratic empire, determined and obliged to formulate and implement the international rules of the game; or as a leading but restrained geopolitical and economic power prepared to define those interests more narrowly that allows other nations, as long as they do not directly challenge America, to live more or less according to their own standards."[10]

Simes resides in Washington, DC, but remotely serves as a moderator of the Moscow-based political program Большая игра ("Big Game") on Channel One Russia, together with Vyacheslav Nikonov.[11][12]

Works[]

  • Simes, Dimitri (March 11, 1999). AFTER THE COLLAPSE: Russia Seeks Its Place As A Great Power. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0684827162.

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References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Joe Holley (July 15, 2006). "Dina Kaminskaya; Lawyer Defended Soviet Dissidents". WashingtonPost.com. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Sullivan, Patricia (17 December 2006). "Konstantin Simis; Critic Of Soviet Corruption" – via WashingtonPost.com.
  3. ^ (in Russian) Скончался Константин Симис, давний сотрудник радио «Свобода». Официальный сайт Radio Liberty (USA) // svoboda.org (18 декабря 2006 года)
  4. ^ Internet Archive entry
  5. ^ Lynch, Sarah N.; Fabrichnaya, Elena (July 22, 2018). Darlin, Damon; Dunham, Will; McCool, Grant (eds.). "Exclusive: Alleged Russian agent Butina met with U.S. Treasury, Fed officials". Reuters. Retrieved July 26, 2018.
  6. ^ Abramson, Seth (November 13, 2018). Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1982116088.:126​ book's Index
  7. ^ Who is Dimitri Simes And Why Is He Trying To Sink Mayflower? Investigation by Yuri Felshtinsky  [uk]
  8. ^ [https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/report_volume5.pdf Senate., 5 Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence, United States Senate, on Russian active measures, campaigns and interference in the 2016 U.S. election § (2020).
  9. ^ https://nationalinterest.org/feature/perfect-storm-147791
  10. ^ https://nationalinterest.org/feature/getting-serious-about-russia-178832
  11. ^ "Туман войны. Андрей Пионтковский – о времени выбора". Радио Свобода (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-01-01.
  12. ^ "Big Game" (Russian), the official site of Channel One Russia

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