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Andrew Roth

@rothandrew.bsky.social

Global affairs correspondent for @guardian based in Washington DC. Ex-Moscow with a stopover in London. Здесь нам не тут. Write me: Andrew.Roth@theguardian.com.

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Flora Garamvolgyi@floragaramvolgyi.bsky.social · 9mo ago

“Orbán wants Trump to come to Budapest before the elections,"said a source at a gov. foreign policy institution.“This is a top priority.They will discuss the Russian gas issue, but the thing Orbán cares about the most is the elections.” w @rothandrew.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Orbán to visit US to try to broker another Putin summit but questions raised over motives

Hungarian PM also seeking exemption on US sanctions on Russian oil as he faces domestic challenge before elections

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Politics Weekly America@politicsweeklyusa.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The brilliant @rothandrew.bsky.social brought @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social around the world - from Ukraine to Venezuela, the Middle East to Argentina, breaking down Trump's plan for global power

Jonathan Freedland@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Not content with being the King of America, Donald Trump seems bent on becoming the King of the World. Latest Politics Weekly America, featuring my excellent colleague Andrew Roth open.spotify.com/episode/4e7F...

Francesca Ebel@francescaebel.bsky.social · last yr.

Set out to report this story & truly didn’t expect Kremlin’s militarization of education to be as intense as reported. But it was quite shocking to see it first-hand My latest fr @washingtonpost.com on how classrooms & libraries are becoming training grounds www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

In wartime Russia, schools prepare the next generation of fighters

Since the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian education system has cranked the patriotic themes into overdrive, seeking to mold the soldiers of tomorrow.

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Andrew Roth@rothandrew.bsky.social · last yr.

Trump’s ‘adults in the room’ on Ukraine are in a race to the bottom. Rubio declares it a ‘proxy war’. Kellogg says intel cutoff is ‘hitting a mule in face with a 2x4’. Also Vance tipped off UK media he would bring up free speech in Starmer meet. My latest: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

‘They brought it on themselves’: a new low in US-Ukraine relations

Diplomats gasp as Keith Kellogg claims Zelenskyy to blame for soured relations with America

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Andrew Roth@rothandrew.bsky.social · last yr.

Spoke with @theguardian.com Today in Focus about Trump's embrace of Russia and the cutoff in aid to Ukraine. “Trump is such a singular political force right now that he’s managing to repaint many aspects of the argument over Ukraine in American political life." www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

How far will Trump’s embrace of Russia go? – podcast

The US has suspended all military aid to Ukraine. What does this mean for European security? Andrew Roth reports

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Francesca Ebel@francescaebel.bsky.social · last yr.

I’ve been back & forth to Russia a fair bit the last few months, and I could never have imagined some of the convos I’ve had this week in Moscow. Even a month or two ago this rhetoric would have seemed totally far-fetched and fanciful. Things shifting fast here. wapo.st/3QGplPj

Washington now ‘largely aligns’ with Moscow’s vision, Kremlin says

Tension between the United States and Ukraine, laid bare in the Oval Office meeting of Trump and Zelensky, is seen in Moscow as a “gift.”

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Andrew Roth@rothandrew.bsky.social · last yr.

JD Vance was supposed to be forgotten as vice-president. Instead, he has launched two key interventions to spoil the US relationship with Europe and Ukraine that may mark the collapse of the transatlantic alliance. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

How JD Vance emerged as the chief saboteur of the transatlantic alliance

Vance snaked his way in first to the row between Trump and Zelenskyy, his second intrusion this month after Munich

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Andrew Roth@rothandrew.bsky.social · last yr.

“I am of America and for America.” Why then did it take 10 years for this change to materialize. Did Jeff Bezos suddenly become American? Or did America suddenly become whatever is profitable for Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump?

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Andrew Roth@rothandrew.bsky.social · last yr.

Under Trump 1, Mike Pence pledged $400 million to help Yazidis and Christian minorities resettle after Isis genocide. Under Trump 2, the administration is gutting those programs, cutting aid to tens of thousands of genocide survivors still in dire need. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

USAid cuts sow feeling of betrayal among Yazidis, 10 years after IS genocide

Figures who backed rights of religious minorities in first Trump term fall silent as vital work halted on the ground

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Andrew Roth@rothandrew.bsky.social · last yr.

Autocrats plan crackdown on USAid and civil society and ask Musk and Trump to help with data. Georgia opens criminal case, local partners questioned in probe into USAid in second country, Guardian can reveal. And Slovakia asks Musk directly for lists of partners. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Authoritarian leaders in former Soviet bloc seize on Musk’s USAid crackdown

Region’s autocrats join in persecution of agency that provided aid and helped to build up civil society in 1990s

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Andrew Roth@rothandrew.bsky.social · last yr.

Fantastic piece by @francescaebel.bsky.social on the “frozen” people, thousands of Ukrainian civilians being held in secret in Russian prisons and the activists in Ukraine and Russia fighting to get them out. Urgent story and brilliant storytelling. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Ukrainians are vanishing into Russia. These people track them down.

Thousands of Ukrainians have disappeared into prisons in Russia, and a network of Russians and Ukrainians are working together to find them.

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Brian Taylor@bdtaylor-su.bsky.social · last yr.

Roth's 10 years of (excellent) reporting in Moscow has prepared him for his new gig in DC. On the Doge insanity perpetrated by the Muskovite incels.

Andrew Roth@rothandrew.bsky.social · last yr.

SCOOP: Elon Musk in multiple phone calls pressured USAID administrators and security to give the "Doge kids" access to personnel data and secure rooms. My insider piece on the tense meetings and chaotic standoffs at USAID as four young Musk acolytes shut it down. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Nina Jankowicz@ninajankowicz.com · last yr.

This morning I woke up to news that the richest man in the world— the unelected oligarch tearing down our government—retweeted a grifter’s lies about me. Here are the facts, since I know weirdos from Twitter stalk me here (maybe find another hobby?): 🧵

Grifter Mike Benz shares falsehoods about Nina Jankowicz's work. In one screenshot, he falsely claims she runs "an internet censorship project in london." In the second screenshot, Benz, who obsessively checks Jankowicz's bluesky feed, posted a screenshot of her reaction to USAID's illegal shutdown by Elon Musk. Both screenshots are posted with the commentary "Update: The Censorship Squad is crashing out over losing the USAID taxpayer gravy train that funds their censorship work." Elon Musk retweets Benz, writing "How the tables have turned."
Andrew Roth@rothandrew.bsky.social · last yr.

SCOOP: Elon Musk in multiple phone calls pressured USAID administrators and security to give the "Doge kids" access to personnel data and secure rooms. My insider piece on the tense meetings and chaotic standoffs at USAID as four young Musk acolytes shut it down. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Doge v USAid: How Elon Musk helped his acolytes infiltrate world’s biggest aid agency

Takeover of USAid agency by Doge operatives seen as a pilot for a large-scale overhaul of the federal government

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Andrew Roth@rothandrew.bsky.social · 2y ago

The gutting of USAID is being presided over by Trump ally Pete Marocco, who is consolidating power in State Dept’s office of foreign assistance. He is alleged to have entered the Capitol during the Jan 6 riots. “He’s not a disrupter. He’s a destroyer.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump ally Peter Marocco behind evisceration of USAid: ‘He’s a destroyer’

Campaign ally sowed trail of enmity during first Trump presidency and allegedly was present at January 6 riot

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