Lucian Kim

Based in Berlin and Moscow, I reported from the former Soviet empire for 25 years for NPR, Reuters, Slate, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor and others. I first traveled to Moscow as a student in 1991, the year of the Soviet Union's demise. Wanting to document the changes I witnessed, I became a journalist, reporting from such places as Kosovo, pre-9/11 Afghanistan and North Korea. I began covering Ukraine and Russia during Vladimir Putin's first term in office. I was born in Charleston, Illinois, and studied at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. I hold a master's degree in nationalism studies from Central European University in Budapest. Currently I am based in Washington, DC, where I work as a Ukraine analyst for International Crisis Group.