Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

I would love to have a stable, productive relationship with Russia.

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

On Facebook, a lie can seem as convincing to some as an article from SPIEGEL or the Washington Post. That's a problem. I can then like it and like it again and start creating my own media universe, both for me and for my friends, and so we become more and more fenced off from one another.

I have to always remember, writing is really hard.

Vladimir Putin wants to become the de facto head of an illiberal, xenophobic, hypernationalist trend in world politics.

Donald Trump's temperament and character is precisely what you would hate to see in your children, much less your president.