Yaroslav TrofimovVerified account

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Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent of The Wall Street Journal. Author of Siege of Mecca. Endorsing nothing. Email me yarotrof at gmail.

Home is where my suitcase is
Joined April 2009

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    NEWS: The head of White House security office, Crede Bailey, is gravely ill with coronavirus and has been hospitalized since late September, I'm told. Security office handles credentialing for access to WH; works closely with Secret Service on security measures on the compound.

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    Oct 7

    Social media has tried to rein in RT. But the Kremlin-backed outlet is still getting a boost from a traffic-swapping network dominated by many of the most prominent conservative websites in the US. w/ via

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    Oct 6

    This is fantastic, and I would highly recommend any friends who might serve in a Biden Administration to not belittle the normalization of relations between the UAE and Israel — certainly not to Emiratis or Israelis. Gestures like this mean a lot to the latter in particular.

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    That was much quicker than Belarus. Took just one night.

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    I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!

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    Another guest at Amy Coney Barrett Rose Garden event tests positive for coronavirus.

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    Oct 5

    McEnany spoke to reporters without wearing a mask yesterday.

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    After Khabarovsk, Vladivostok. Moscow’s grip on the Russian Far East looks rather wobbly.

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    I’ve been informed that I participated in a meeting last Tuesday attended by a person who yesterday tested positive for COVID-19. In accordance with regulations in force, I’m therefore self-isolating until tomorrow morning. I’ve tested negative on Thursday & am tested again today

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    Oct 4

    . in FT op-ed: "Every major nation is on track to have a smaller economy by the end of the year—with one exception, China…After 2008, China weathered the storm, its economy growing in every quarter."

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    Oct 4

    Thinking tonight of all the hospitalized Covid patients who are alone, unable to see or touch their loved ones.

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  19. Oct 4

    “We have, as a society, taken ‘October surprise’ much too far,” said John Aldrich, a political-science professor at Duke University, when asked about the past 48 hours of the campaign.

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    Oct 4

    Wait till he finds out who built Constantinople!

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