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found no evidence for the claims, and the Post continued to publicly defend Doder. Doder, who was working in
Yugoslavia at the time, filed a libel suit in the United Kingdom against Time in 1993. During the legal proceedings, Doder sold his house to cover costs. In 1996, Time apologized to Doder and
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Doder became bureau of The
Washington Post's Moscow bureau in 1981. During his time in Moscow, Doder developed a network of connections and sources "unmatched by most other correspondents" through his familiarity with Slavic and Soviet cultures and the Russian language. In February 1984, he surmised
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Doder married twice. He had one son with his first wife, Karin Weberg
Rasmussen (d. 1994); the couple divorced in the early 1980s. He married his second wife, British journalist Louise Branson, in 1989, and the couple had two sons. Doder and Branson lived in Northern Virginia until 2020, when the
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