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    Polina Ivanova

    Moscow correspondent

    Polina Ivanova is a foreign correspondent for the FT covering Russia, Ukraine, and Central Asia. Her reporting is focused on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and on developments inside Russia, from the Kremlin’s crackdown to the effect of sanctions and attempts to evade them.

    Previously, she covered Russia and Ukraine for Reuters as a Special Correspondent on the investigative team. She joined the FT in 2021 and was shortlisted for the George Orwell Prize for Political Journalism in 2022.

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    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      News in-depthRussian society
      Putin’s Russia turns on abortion

      Pro-choice campaigners link ultra-conservative rhetoric to Kremlin’s desire for more soldiers

      Protesters and clergy at an anti-abortion procession in St Petersburg
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Tracking Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia in maps

      A visual guide to the war

      Montage of map of Ukraine and tanks
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
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      Biden and Xi meet in San Francisco

      US stocks and bonds jump after inflation falls to 3.2%

    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Azerbaijan
      West puts energy deals before plight of economist jailed in Azerbaijan, says family

      Europe accused of turning a blind eye on imprisoned academic because of its reliance on Baku for gas

      Gubad Ibadoghlu, London School of Economics visiting professor
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      News in-depthRussian economy
      Russia’s war economy leaves businesses starved of labour

      Busy armaments factories are depriving other industries of scarce workers

      Military vehicles at a plant in St Petersburg
    • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
      Europe Express
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      Also in this newsletter: What does the antisemitic airport riot in Russia mean?

      US Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo
    • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
      News in-depthRussian politics
      What antisemitic attacks in Dagestan say about Putin’s Russia

      Riot in Muslim-majority region reminiscent of tsarist-era pogroms, says former chief rabbi

      Vladimir Putin
    • Monday, 30 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Russian police arrest 60 people over Dagestan airport riot

      Kremlin blames violence in Muslim-majority region on ‘external interference’ by the west

      Crowd on the runway of the airport in Makhachkala in the Dagestan region of Russia
    • Monday, 23 October, 2023
      News in-depthArmenia-Azerbaijan conflict
      Azerbaijan’s victory over Armenian enclave raises fears of another war

      The oil-rich state is emboldened by takeover of Nagorno-Karabakh, with southern Armenia fearing it may be next

      Azerbaijani forces captured weaponry during their September attack on Nagorno-Karabakh
    • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
      Russian politics
      Moscow detains US journalist amid crackdown on independent reporting

      Russian-US citizen Alsu Kurmasheva faces up to five years in jail if found guilty of charges

      Journalist Alsu Kurmasheva
    • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
      Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
      Azerbaijan snubs EU after Armenian enclave takeover

      President Ilham Aliyev cancels plans to attend a European summit where he was due to meet the Armenian PM

      Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev
    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
      Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
      Armenia signs up to Hague court amid fraught relations with Moscow

      Vladimir Putin could be arrested by country’s authorities enforcing an International Criminal Court warrant

      the Lachin checkpoint on the way from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, in Azerbaijan
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      News in-depthArmenia-Azerbaijan conflict
      Armenians ‘lose motherland’ in blow to Russia’s influence abroad

      Self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno-Karabakh ceases to exist after Azerbaijan takes control of mountainous region

      A police officer guides the driver of a car
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
      Nagorno-Karabakh republic will ‘cease to exist’ from January, says its leader

      President of self-proclaimed state orders its institutions to disband after Azerbaijan takes control

      Refugees sit on the back of a truck near the Armenia-Azerbaijan border after fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
      Azerbaijan arrests Russian-Armenian billionaire fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh

      Ruben Vardanyan’s detention comes as Baku steps up hunt for leaders of the former breakaway state

      Ruben Vardanyan flanked by two Azerbaijani security officers
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      News in-depthArmenia-Azerbaijan conflict
      ‘We were betrayed’: Armenians on the run after Azerbaijan’s blitz attack

      Refugees flee disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh

      An ethnic Armenian boy from Nagorno-Karabakh, looks on from a car upon arrival in Armenia’s Goris
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      InterviewOleg Deripaska
      Russia has proved resilient to western sanctions, says Deripaska

      Metals oligarch tells FT of his ‘surprise’ at performance of economy in wake of invasion of Ukraine

      Oleg Deripaska
    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
      Ethnic Armenians flee enclave as Azerbaijan asserts control

      Wave of Nagorno-Karabakh refugees expected to grow as Baku retakes territory following 35-year conflict

    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      ECJ rules sanctions on Russian tech boss should be lifted

      First time measures against businessman sanctioned over Ukraine have been revoked

    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Russian politics
      Chechen warlord shows loyalty to Putin after Prigozhin’s demise

      Ramzan Kadyrov seeks to dispel doubts of allegiance to Kremlin following death of Wagner chief

      Ramzan Kadyrov with Vladimir Putin
    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Ukraine launches biggest drone attack yet inside Russian territory

      Several military cargo planes destroyed in Pskov region as part of sweeping aerial assault

      An image from social media showing a large blaze in Pskov, Russia
    • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
      Yevgeny Prigozhin
      DNA results confirm Prigozhin’s death, Moscow says

      Genetic testing shows Wagner warlord was on board jet as speculation mounts on future of paramilitary group

      Yevgeny Prigozhin
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Yevgeny Prigozhin
      Plane crash was ‘too rough’ for Putin, says Lukashenko

      Belarus leader and Kremlin say Russian president was not involved in death of Prigozhin

      A makeshift memorial for Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Yevgeny Prigozhin
      Prigozhin crash was not caused by surface-to-air missile, says US

      Initial intelligence reports come as Russia’s president Vladimir Putin says Wagner leader is dead

      A member of Wagner pays tribute to Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitri Utkin, a founder of the militia, near its offices in Novosibirsk
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      ExplainerRussian insurrection
      Russian insurrection: Prigozhin’s failed mutiny and the fallout

      A timeline of the Wagner militia’s uprising and what happened next

      Wagner group prepares to pull out from the headquarters of the Southern Military District to return to Rostov-on-Don
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