Emily Tamkin

Emily Tamkin is a writer and reporter. Her work has appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review , the Economist , the New Republic , Politico , Slate , and the Washington Post , among other publications. She previously covered foreign affairs on staff at Foreign Policy and BuzzFeed News . She studied Russian literature and culture at Columbia University and Russian and East European studies at the University of Oxford. She researched Soviet dissidence in Moscow, Russia; Tbilisi, Georgia; and,...See more

Emily Tamkin is a writer and reporter. Her work has appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review , the Economist , the New Republic , Politico , Slate , and the Washington Post , among other publications. She previously covered foreign affairs on staff at Foreign Policy and BuzzFeed News . She studied Russian literature and culture at Columbia University and Russian and East European studies at the University of Oxford. She researched Soviet dissidence in Moscow, Russia; Tbilisi, Georgia; and, on a Fulbright grant, in Bremen, Germany. She lives in Washington, D.C. See less