About Ryan @ryanchilcote
Ryan Chilcote is a PBS NewsHour Special Correspondent. Based in London, Ryan has been reporting on foreign affairs and economics in Europe, the Middle East and Africa since 1995.
Ryan’s Recent Stories
World Jul 16
Analysis: After more than two decades covering Russia, I’ve never seen anything quite like todayPresident Donald Trump said of today’s one-on-one meeting with Putin in Helsinki: “Our relationship has never been worse than it is now. However, that changed as of about four hours ago. I really believe that.”…
World Jul 13
How will Trump’s undermining of May play out in British politics?President Trump lobbed a volley of verbal grenades at British Prime Minister Theresa May in a tabloid interview before he arrived in the UK, saying May had botched Brexit and praising the former foreign secretary as a potential prime minister.
World Jul 11
Trump scolded Germany for buying gas from Russia. Here’s what we knowPresident Donald Trump wasted no time in escalating his verbal attacks on Germany in the opening leg of his European tour by bringing up where they buy their energy. Here's what we know.
World Jun 09
How the G-7 looks from RussiaRussia’s “window to the West” has been all but boarded up and not just because of the sanctions.
World Apr 14
Here’s how officials in the UK, France and Russia are responding to the Syria strikesLeaders of the UK and France, which both took part in strikes on Syria, are turning their attention to the battle for domestic support as Russia responds with rhetoric, not retaliation.
World Apr 07
The U.S. is shifting tactics to target Russia’s richest. But will it make a difference?New sanctions on Russian billionaires will make it difficult for them to do business with the rest of the world. But how much influence do they wield on Putin?…
Politics Jan 25
What happened inside Trump’s reception at DavosLloyd Blankfein, the CEO and chairman of Goldman Sachs, wasn’t the only big-name billionaire at President Donald Trump’s reception for business leaders at the World Economic Forum. This was a proper billionaires’ fest.
World Jan 24
At Davos, Trump will get the final word on navigating ‘a fractured world’At the annual World Economic Forum, heads of state, celebrities, tycoons and academics are gathered to discuss the most pressing issues of the day, including climate change, migration and gender equality. And for the first time in almost two decades,…
World Dec 14
To this Russian-American community, Russia has become a political scapegoatHow have strains in U.S.-Russia relations affected Russian-Americans and recent immigrants? Special correspondent Ryan Chilcote reports from the Brighton BEach neighborhood of Brooklyn, the first stop for many of the 3 million Russian or former Soviet Union immigrants who come…
World Dec 11
After Russia’s Ukraine incursion, NATO troops drill for war on a Cold-War scaleEight hundred American and NATO soldiers, attack helicopters and tank busters are deployed in a military exercise of extraordinary complexity in Poland, preparing for trench warfare against an army with a level of sophistication the U.S. military hasn't seen in…
