Leonid Bershidsky, Columnist

Putin May Want to Pick a Male Interviewer Next Time

When Megyn Kelly turned up the heat, he turned to nastiness and eyerolls.

June 2, 2017 at 5:48 PM UTC

Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.”

Bringing out the worst.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin needed someone to deliver a message to his Western adversaries. He picked Megyn Kelly of NBC News, which was probably a mistake.

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