TLDR on views of the newspaper's CEO:
Born Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Alma mater Moscow State University
Simes authored a book After the Collapse: Russia Seeks its Place as a Great Power (published by Simon and Schuster).[4]
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
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