***URGENT STATEMENT*** Please RT!
Today's @washingtonpost accuses me of having worked for Russia's government.
That is FALSE. I demand an *immediate retraction.*
If this story by @pbump is not corrected, I will pursue legal action: washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
I was a Visiting Researcher at MGIMO University in Russia.
That is *not* a paid position.
It's like being an exchange student, but at the level of a PhD.
The claim that I was involved in a Russian "think tank" is also false.
MGIMO University contains multiple think tanks – just like, for example, Stanford contains the Hoover Institution.
However, I was *NOT* involved in any of those think tanks.
If the Washington Post had simply called or emailed me, this all could have been cleared up.
I know they have my contact info... BECAUSE I WROTE FOR THEM.
Instead, they went to print without making even the slightest effort to check their facts.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-j…
When was I published in the Washington Post?
WHILE I lived in Russia!
They knew that – they credited me as a "Visiting Researcher at Moscow State Institute of International Relations."
It was ok when I worked for them, but now it's sinister?
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