John LechnerJohn Lechner holdsan MS in Foreign Service (MSFS) from Georgetown University. He is an expert onRussia's growing influence in Africa, and speaks fluent Russian; advancedFrench, Turkish, and Georgian; and conversational Bosnian-Croaian-Serbian(BCS), Chechen, German, and Sango (the lingua franca of the Central AfricanRepublic). He currently works as a freelance journalist and researcher, reporting on the Central African Republic (CAR) and Libya. He is an expert onthe history, languages, and politics of Central Africa, Turkey, and the formerSoviet Union. You can find his articles published in Foreign Policy, War on the Rocks, Kyiv Post, The Diplomat, Africa is a Country, African Arguments, The National Interest, and Defense One, among others. He resides in Washington, D.C.
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