The Great Game’s other principal presenter: Dmitry Simes

As I noted on these pages more than a year ago, Dmitry Simes, the former adviser and traveling companion of Richard Nixon in his post-presidential years, later, following the president’s death, head of the Nixon Center think tank, which was eventually renamed The Center for the National Interest, this Dmitry Simes picked up stakes and moved back to his native Russia in the days immediately following the start of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine. He took this decision because it had become clear to him that his fair-minded, fact-based approach to Russian affairs had become untenable in present American political conditions of nearly hysterical Russophobia. Upon moving, Simes received a prestigious and well-paying appointment as one of the three presenters on Russia’s most authoritative political talk show, The Great Game.