Russian Subversion, Coercion, and Sabotage throughout Europe

Speaker: Bojan Pancevski (Wall Street Journal) with Guest Host Jack Gaines (One CA Podcast)

Date: 24 January 2025

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Bojan Pancevski is The Wall Street Journal’s chief European political correspondent, covering European and global affairs. He produces major investigations, agenda- setting scoops, analyses of politics and diplomacy, and deeply reported features about extraordinary people and events. His recent writing has focused on the Russian aggression in Ukraine, the Kremlin’s clandestine operations in Europe and the escalating shadow war of espionage and sabotage between Russia and the West, which, unlike the Cold War, is being fought on NATO soil. He was previously the Journal’s Germany correspondent, covering many of the same issues while also writing about the politics, society and influence of Europe’s largest economy on the world.

In almost two decades of dispatches and reportage from across Europe and beyond, Bojan has covered every major story on the continent: the financial crisis that engulfed the Eurozone, the wars in Ukraine, multiple migration crises, Britain’s departure from the European Union, Russia’s use of assassination against the regime’s opponents, the rise of Islamist terror and the political upheaval across Europe.

He co-authored a bestselling book about the crimes of Josef Fritzl, an investigation into one of the most extraordinary criminal cases in contemporary European history.  His work has been nominated for a number of prestigious awards. He was part of the team that won the British Journalism Award for Breaking News. Bojan is the only foreign recipient of the Werner Holzer Award, a prestigious accolade honoring the body of work of German foreign correspondents. He is fluent in several European languages, including German and Russian.