Amy Mackinnon is an award-winning national security and intelligence reporter at Foreign Policy. She has reported from across Eastern Europe and was previously based in Moscow and in Tbilisi, Georgia, as senior editor for the crisis reporting site Coda Story. Mackinnon is a recipient of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia award for her reporting on homophobic vigilantes in Russia. She speaks Russian and has a master’s degree in journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and a dual master’s in Russian, Central, and East European studies from the University of Glasgow and Corvinus University of Budapest.
A fighter in a territorial defense unit, supporting the regular Ukrainian army, holds a Kalashnikov rifle decorated with a Ukrainian flag ribbon during a combat training exercise near Bucha, Ukraine, on June 17.
A sale sign hangs above a sign for a currency exchange shop in London on Sept. 26, as the pound briefly fell to a historic low against the U.S. dollar.
