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 became Johannesburg bureau chief for the Times in 2003 and spent 15 years covering sub-Saharan Africa before being deployed as the Times’s Beijing bureau chief in 2018. Honors & Awards:

2016: Winner of the Overseas Press Club Madeline Dane Ross Award for international reporting on the human condition
2016: Reporting fellow, International Women’s Media Foundation
2016: Anchored the Los Angeles Times story, "Diary of Terror," that was awarded an Associated Press Media Editors award in the Sally Jacobsen International Perspective category, as well as a citation for storytelling from the APME
2009: Winner of the Daniel Pearl Award for courage and integrity in reporting
2009: Awarded the Batten Medal by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, recognizing “compassion, courage, humanity and a deep concern for the underdog"
2008: Citation by the Overseas Press Club in relation to the Joe and Laurie Dine award for international reporting dealing with human rights
2008: Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy award for international reporting on human rights, social justice or the power of individual action
2007: Winner of the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi award for international reporting.

Latest from Robyn Dixon

Europe

To Russia’s Putin, President-elect Biden is still a ‘candidate’

In the meantime, Putin had made a point of noting America’s political divides.

Nov 26, 2020

Europe

Russia’s vaccine volunteers swap stories — and antibody readings — as amateur researchers

Nearly 1,500 people have joined an online group to dig into the Sputnik V trials, and sort the doses from the placebos.

Nov 26, 2020

World

China and Russia are using coronavirus vaccines to expand their influence. The U.S. is on the sidelines.

The ultimate outcome depends on how the vaccine race plays out worldwide.

Nov 24, 2020

Europe

Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh mourn a lost war but doubt that peace will last

For the Armenian soldiers who survived Nagorno-Karabakh’s brief and brutal war, peace is as bitter as fighting on.

Nov 23, 2020

Europe

Coronavirus vaccines are coming. Who should get them first?

Public health officials are hashing out how to prioritize within their countries.

Nov 21, 2020

Europe

In Nagorno-Karabakh peace deal, Russia’s Putin claims a strategic win. But risks are attached.

Russia brokered a truce between Armenia and Azerbaijan and sent peacekeepers to a volatile region.

Nov 20, 2020

Europe

Azerbaijan’s drones owned the battlefield in Nagorno-Karabakh — and showed future of warfare

Azerbaijan used oil wealth to buy attack drones from Turkey and Israel. It was a huge advantage.

Nov 11, 2020

Europe

Cease-fire in Nagorno-Karabakh provokes protests in Armenia, celebrations in Azerbaijan

Russian peacekeepers moved quickly into the region under the pact, which returned some territory to Azerbaijan.

Nov 10, 2020

Azerbaijan regains territory from Armenia after thousands die during brutal fighting

A cease-fire deal reached Nov. 10, allowed Azerbaijan to hold onto the substantial territory it has regained from Armenia over six weeks of heavy fighting.

Nov 10, 2020

1:24

Europe

For Russia, Biden is the foe they know. The Kremlin is studying old playbooks.

Putin has decried Biden’s “anti-Russian rhetoric.’ But it’s familiar territory compared to Trump’s policy swings, Kremlin watchers say.

Nov 1, 2020