The shadowy bromance of Steve Witkoff and Kirill Dmitriev
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Putin Envoy Dmitriev to Travel to Miami, Meet Members of Trump Administration, Sources Say
MOSCOW, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, will travel to Miami on Saturday for meetings with members of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, two sources with knowledge of the visit told Reuters. (Reporting by Gleb Bryanski; Editing by Aidan Lewis) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters. Photos You Should See – January 2026 Source link
Yuri Dmitriev, the Russian historian imprisoned for denouncing Kremlin attempts to rewrite history
The Russian authorities did everything they could to break him, but, at 70 years old, Yuri Dmitriev has not given in. Since May 2022, Dmitriev, a historian specialized in the Soviet-era gulags, has lived the life of a convict in the heart of Mordovia, a stark region located 500 kilometers east of Moscow, dotted with lakes, rivers and prison camps that date back to the Soviet era. Imprisoned since 2016, he is one of the oldest detainees in Russia’s prisons. For 30 years, Dmitriev worked to locate mass graves that prove the Soviet regime’s Stalin-era crimes, horrors that the Kremlin is determined to cover up at all costs. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), one of the KGB’s successors, is suspected of having fabricated a child sexual abuse case against him, both to silence him and to intimidate anyone else who does not conform to the regime’s official historical narrative. According to human rights advocates, he was the victim of a “shameful trial,” and the charges against him were actually a case of kompromat, an …
Putin’s Special Envoy Dmitriev to Travel to Davos, Meet Members of U.S. Delegation, Sources Say
MOSCOW, Jan 19 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev will travel to the Swiss resort of Davos this week and hold meetings with members of the U.S. delegation on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, two sources with knowledge of the visit told Reuters on condition of anonymity. Ukraine’s top negotiator Rustem Umerov said on Sunday that talks with U.S. officials on a resolution of the nearly four-year-old war with Russia would continue at the World Economic Forum (WEF) this week. Trump will attend this year’s annual meeting in person, after addressing the gathering by video link last year. He will be accompanied by a large U.S. delegation. The Kremlin has said that it is preparing to welcome U.S. Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner to Moscow for peace talks on Ukraine, but that no dates have been set yet. Dmitriev travelled to the U.S. in December and held two days of talks with Witkoff and Kushner. He briefed Putin after returning from the trip. Witkoff and …