Robyn Dixon

Moscow

Moscow bureau chief and foreign correspondent

Education: Presbyterian Ladies' College, Burwood, Australia

Robyn Dixon is a foreign correspondent on her third stint in Russia, after almost a decade reporting there beginning in the early 1990s. In November 2019 she joined The Washington Post as Moscow bureau chief. She began working in journalism as a copy girl in her hometown afternoon newspaper, the Herald in Melbourne, Australia, in 1978. In 1993 she became Moscow bureau chief for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age, covering the former Soviet Union and the war in Chechnya. In 1999 she joined the Los Angeles Times as Moscow correspondent and covered conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. She becam
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Telegram chief Durov condemns his arrest, says it stifles innovation

Durov argued that if CEOs are held responsible for misuse of a platform, no one would ever innovate.

September 6, 2024
Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov, shown here in 2016, says that "claims in some media that Telegram is some sort of anarchic paradise are absolutely untrue. We take down millions of harmful posts and channels every day.”

Russia dismisses charges of election meddling; Putin claims he backs Harris

Despite calling the U.S. charges of interference nonsense, Russian officials have publicly celebrated attempts to influence the American public.

September 5, 2024

Putin travels to Mongolia, defying international court arrest order

Signatories to the Rome Statute are expected to carry out its arrest warrants, but Mongolia has close ties to Russia.

September 2, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Kyzyl in Tuva, Russia, on Monday before arriving in Mongolia.

In a grim Russian cell, a hippie LGBTQ artist survived with her inner joy

Alexandra Skochilenko became known for flashing a smile and heart symbols in court even as she was sentenced to seven years in prison for a minor antiwar protest.

August 30, 2024
Skochilenko gestures from inside the defendant's cage during her verdict hearing in St. Petersburg on Nov. 16, 2023.

Ukraine keeps crossing Russia’s red lines. Putin keeps blinking.

Ukraine’s punch through Russian defenses in the first foreign invasion since World War II has laid bare Moscow’s apparently illusory red lines.

August 24, 2024
A Ukrainian soldier points out of the window in an armored car as they drive on Russian territory on Aug. 18 in the Kursk region of Russia.

Russia opens case against CNN reporter who covered Kursk incursion

The country’s security service said the journalist would be placed on Russia’s wanted list. Under Russian law, the maximum penalty for illegally crossing the border is five years in prison.

August 22, 2024
People walk in front of the headquarters of Russia's Federal Security Services (FSB) in central Moscow on March 16, 2022.

U.S. Embassy denies Russian accusations of role in Ukraine incursion

Russia’s Foreign Ministry condemned reporting by U.S. media into areas controlled by Ukrainian forces.

August 21, 2024
The Russian Foreign Ministry building and Moscow’s International Business Center are seen behind the dome of a church in October 2022.

Kremlin response to Kursk incursion shows how Putin freezes in a crisis

When Russian President Vladimir Putin’s authority is tested, his response often lacks quick, decisive action that lives up to his bellicose rhetoric.

August 18, 2024
Watched by armed security, people displaced by the war gather to receive humanitarian aid Friday at a distribution site in Kursk in western Russia.

Ukraine offensive in Russia expands beyond Kursk region, soldiers say

Ukraine’s intelligence service announced the detention of more than 100 Russian troops, in what it said amounted to the “largest mass capture” of enemy soldiers at one time.

August 15, 2024
Yuriy Savchuk, director of Ukraine’s war museum, (left) packs items taken by Ukrainian soldiers from inside Russia into a van in Yunakivka on Friday.

Russia sentences American woman to 12 years for donation aiding Ukraine

The woman, Ksenia Karelina, a beautician living in Los Angeles, was visiting family in Russia when she was arrested at the airport over a donation of about $50 to an aid group.

August 15, 2024
Russian American dual citizen Ksenia Karelina listens to her lawyer Mikhail Mushailov as they attend a court hearing in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on Thursday.