Ann M. Simmons
@AMSimmons1
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Award-winning international journalist. Served as Spring 2025 Fellow at @HarvardIOP. Former Moscow bureau chief @WSJ. Ex-staffer @LATimes, @TIME, @MiamiHerald.
Cambridge, MA
Joined May 2012
Countdown to tomorrow’s pivotal meeting between Presidents Trump and Putin. Is a peace deal finally on the near horizon?.
With the clock ticking down to the high-stakes Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, @AMSimmons1 tells @chrissymacCNN that Trump must avoid being “sucked into the Russian narrative” as Putin will undoubtedly press to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine:
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Over the weekend, I was honored to receive the Percy Qoboza Foreign Journalist of the Year Award from #Nabj. I dedicated the award to the many journalists who risk their lives everyday on the frontlines of wars & rarely get the recognition they deserve.
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RT @AlphonsoVM: My #NABJ25 day full of reconnecting with peers, friends who have been a bulwark of support for more years than we may care….
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Happy to share my work experience and provide career guidance to future leaders being educated @HarvardU @HarvardIOP
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Looking forward to an interesting conversation about the future of Russia’s opposition w/Russian politician & ex-political prisoner @vkaramurza & his wife, democracy campaigner & human rights advocate @ekaramurza, at @HarvardIOP
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Study Group with Ann Simmons: Whither Russia's Opposition?
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Former President @JoeBiden visited @HarvardIOP this week for an off-record chat led by his ex-chief strategist Michael Donilon. I took the opportunity to thank him for helping free my former @WSJ colleague @EvanGershkovich from detention in Russia.
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RT @HarvardIOP: Weds., 4/2: Ann Simmons (@AMSimmons1) is joined by John J. Sullivan, fmr U.S. Amb. to the Russian Federation, to discuss hi….
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RT @HarvardIOP: Weds., 3/26: Ann Simmons (@AMSimmons1) is joined by.Dr. Markos Kounalakis to discuss Russia's use of political propaganda,….
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RT @HarvardIOP: Don't miss journalist Alsu Kurmasheva in conversation with @AMSimmons1 on March 4. Kurmasheva will share how she was impris….
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RT @kaitborsay: This eve @TimesRadio from 7pm: marking three yrs since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Special guests incl:. 🇺🇦@….
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RT @HarvardIOP: Weds., 2/19: Ann Simmons (@AMSimmons1) will discuss how the world of Vladimir Putin came to be, where are we headed, and wh….
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RT @broadcastbev: “We are at the beginning of the end of the Ukraine War.” opines Russia expert @AMSimmons1 on the Harvard Kennedy School I….
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Truly honored to have been selected as a Spring 2025 Resident Fellow at @HarvardIOP at @Kennedy_School. Congratulations to my esteemed cohorts.
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He never stopped reporting during his 16 months wrongfully detained in a Russian prison. Instead @evangershkovich set out to identify the man who took him and learn more about the spy unit that had carried out his orders.
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The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since the Stalin era.
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Humbled and honored to have been selected as one of the winners of the 2025 Columbia University Journalism School Alumni Awards. Big congrats to fellow recipients @Frannydink @ESPN_Lipsyte @luoach .
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Who is #SergeiKiriyenko, the Kremlin senior aide who U.S. prosecutors accuse of trying to manipulate American voters ahead of the November presidential election? w @WSJ's @tggrove.
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The lonely death of Pavel Kushnir, a concert pianist and musical prodigy, who ended up in a prison camp, staging a hunger strike - one of hundreds of Russians locked up for voicing opposition to President #VladimirPutin .
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Pavel Kushnir, a concert pianist, was one of hundreds of Russians jailed for standing up to Vladimir Putin.
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Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, challenges the most detailed official account so far of her husband’s death in an Arctic prison camp.
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Yulia Navalnaya challenged the most detailed official account so far of her husband’s death in an Arctic prison camp.
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Thousands of residents have been evacuated from Russia’s Kursk and Belgorod regions after being caught off guard by Ukraine’s incursion.
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Thousands of residents have been evacuated from Russia’s Kursk and Belgorod regions after being caught off guard by Ukraine’s incursion.
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Los Angeles resident #KseniaKarelina, a U.S.-Russian dual national, who worked as an aesthetician, was found guilty of high treason and sentenced to 12 years in a Russian penal colony.
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Karelina, who lived in Los Angeles, was found guilty of high treason for giving funds to aid Kyiv's army. Her supporters say she donated $51.80 to a nonprofit that helps civilians.
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