Interpretermag

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The Interpreter Mag is a self-published "Project of The Institute of Modern Russia" [1] which describes itself thus:

The Institute of Modern Russia (IMR) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy organization—a think tank—with offices in New York and Washington DC. IMR's mission is to foster democratic and economic development in Russia through research, advocacy, public events, and grant-making. We are committed to strengthening respect for human rights, the rule of law, and civil society in Russia. Our goal is to promote a principles-based approach to US-Russia relations and Russia's integration into the community of democracies. [1]

InterpreterMag includes blog entries that are ""Powered by Pressimus"", tag line: Find useful snippets of content. Weave them into your stories. ((Press)) to share with the world. example

Pressimus lets you...

  • ... find the latest real-time content being posted by people all over the world on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram, on any subject that you're interested in, and ...
  • ... weave your own stories, pulling in the real-time snippets of content that you find, adding context, your own point of view, and any commentary you want to add, and ...
  • ... ((press)) the stories as you create them, to share them with the world.

Influence of The Interpreter Mag on Wikipedia

At 10 Sep 2014, there were 25 citations in Wikipedia for this "source" in the following articles[2]: Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 , Donetsk People's Republic , Timeline of the 2014 Crimean crisis , Russian Armed Forces , Anti-Maidan , Andrey Stenin , 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine , [3] , List of private military contractors , 2014 Moscow Metro derailment , Spetsnaz , Igor Girkin , 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine , Euromaidan , Siege of Sloviansk , Eurasian Economic Union , RT (TV network) , Progress Party (Russia) , 76th Guards Air Assault Division , Elena Servettaz , Mashina Vremeni , Russian oligarch , Dissernet and Jaysh al-Islam

Staff and contributors

James Miller is the managing editor of The Interpreter where he reports on Russia and Ukraine. He is a contributor at The Daily Beast, Vice News, Foreign Policy Magazine, The Moscow Times, and others. Claimed to be an expert on verifying citizen journalism, he has been covering developments in the Middle East, specifically Syria and Iran, since 2009. Follow him on Twitter: @MillerMENA [2]

Articles of note

At 8:44 PM - 17 Jul 2014 Peter Grönlund tweeted at photo to James Miller (managing editor of The Interpreter) saying: "wake up kid! From Snitzhe this morning: Maybe u can geolocate it its a BUK sa-17"[3]

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