Mark MacKinnon

Senior International Correspondent for The Globe and Mail. Now based in London, after stops in Moscow, the Middle East and Beijing.

[Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon]

Oh, and find me here more and more often going forward… https://t.co/6n27H4jwGs

[CNN Breaking News @cnnbrk]

Russia's ambassador to the United States, Alexander Darchiev, has died at 66, the Russian Foreign Ministry says. https://t.co/MvIwlfAh8Y

[Laura Harth @LauraHarth]

“China does not interfere in other countries’ affairs”? Here’s the PRC Embassy in Canada telling Ottawa what it can and cannot talk about. https://t.co/uqWGqDMyaw

[Liza Fokht @lizafokht]

🧵 A few thoughts on the talks in Abu Dhabi from someone who's been on this beat for almost five years.

[Reuters @Reuters]

BREAKING: At least 300 schools in Italy were evacuated after receiving the same ‌bomb alert message, the education minister said https://t.co/J03f01Bvvb

[Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon]

"Ottawa’s new national security strategy – a framework for its foreign, trade and defence policies – speaks of defending Canadian values at home, but says remarkably little about how those values will guide Canada’s actions abroad."

[Roland Paris @rolandparis]

My latest piece - on Mark Carney’s foreign policy:

‘Principled pragmatism’ in foreign policy still requires Canada to be clear about its principles
https://t.co/HGp7KwnmIq

[Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon]

Uh, what?

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

STAND. FIGHT. DEFEND THE REPUBLIC.

[Lucy Fisher @LOS_Fisher]

EXCL: Britain and Russia should seek fresh lines of communication to avert the “risk of miscalculation” arising from Moscow’s “state-sponsored terrorism”, UK defence secretary has urged.

Wes Streeting said in an interview with the @FT: “We have our embassy in Moscow. That is an important channel . . . I would much prefer there to be additional channels too, particularly military-to-military level.”

Speaking out as the UK has fallen behind allies such as France and Germany in its political and diplomatic lines of contact with Vladimir Putin’s regime, he added: “There is always a risk of miscalculation and that’s why having that direct communication is important.”

https://t.co/XMAalAmC8G

[Matthew Luxmoore @mjluxmoore]

Novaya Gazeta journalists taking down portraits of their slain colleagues as they permanently shutter their Moscow office today. End of an era in Russia

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Youth protests highlight EU’s split between a restive west and peaceful east, writes @markmackinnon https://t.co/C0r63yZVKI

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

France accuses Iran of being behind cyber-attacks that affected supermarket fridges and freezers https://t.co/1Vzmrlbp1U

[Novaya Gazeta Europe @novayagazeta_en]

‘That’s it’. Novaya Gazeta team vacates its Moscow office

Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Sergey Sokolov held the final editorial meeting at the newspaper’s office in Moscow on Monday, SOTAvision has reported.

The meeting was attended by the outlet’s former editor-in-chief, Dmitry Muratov, as well as staff members and representatives from other media organisations, including CNN and Reuters.

📹 | RusNews

[Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon]

A tale of two Europes - as student-led protests spread across France and the rest of Western Europe, the streets of Eastern Europe have (so far) remained calm as economies there continue to grow.

My report from Berlin and Zagreb

https://t.co/U77LjTJplc

[Maysoun Chehab @Maysounchehab]

The sea through Beirut’s Holiday Inn.

[tyro @DoubleEph]

You have to email the Houthis if you want your ship to cross the Red Sea. They reply within 24hrs

[Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina]

What our life in Kyiv looks like

[Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon]

This will be studied in journalism schools.

[Davy Shanks @Davyshanks]

This piece to camera went so far off the rails so quickly.

Filming in Niddrie on bonfire night… cameo by Police Scotland’s finest.

[Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon]

Seems rather calm and safe - so why are foreign journalists not allowed in?

[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

What’s on the menu in Gaza? Pita stuffed with shawarma and decadent chocolate desserts, for starters.

In videos shared by Gazans, shoppers browse market stalls piled high with fresh produce and treats, supermarkets stock their shelves, and local restaurants serve up refined dishes.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Secret police files released in Hungary, 47 years after fall of communism https://t.co/LxeSXZPmfR

[Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon]

TLDR: the new Ayatollah Khamenei is watching CNN and enjoying what he sees…

[Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei @MKhamenei_ir]

The long-standing hostility of the US toward the Muslim nation of Iran, and the courageous resistance of all Iranians against this enemy, has reached a point where every single day and hour has become a time for standing firmly and fighting the Great Satan.

[Axios @axios]

BREAKING: Trump's VP says the Iran war cost them the midterms

https://t.co/uGaZecRW1Z