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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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  • Monday, 27 March, 2023
    Russian business & finance
    Western groups leaving Russia face obligatory donation to Moscow

    Move raises pressure on companies that have not made a complete exit since Ukraine was invaded

  • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
    Kazakhstan
    Kazakhstan to step up monitoring of goods re-exported to Russia

    Goods crossing the border surged last year as sanctions stymied Moscow’s access to western markets

  • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Xi backs Putin on Ukraine but holds out on Russian gas pipeline

    Leaders of China and Russia hold centrepiece talks in Moscow

  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    Russia
    War crimes court issues arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin

    International Criminal Court targets Russian leader over removals of children from Ukraine

  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Slovakia joins Poland in sending Soviet-era jets to Ukraine

    Decisions set to bolster Kyiv’s air force with additional MiG-29s and spare parts

  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    Russian business & finance
    Sberbank to send record $4bn dividend to Russian state

    Kremlin-controlled lender’s payout comes as profit shrank 80% on western sanctions

  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    FT Magazine
    How Putin’s war destroyed a golden age of Russian culture

    Inside the pain, purges and persecution that have decimated the country’s once-flourishing theatre scene

  • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
    Russian politics
    The letter-writing campaign in pursuit of Russian sanctions relief

    Opposition figures rally around Mikhail Fridman

  • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven set to offload Alfa-Bank stake in $2.3bn deal

    Oligarchs’ partner Andrei Kosogov agrees to take over Russia’s largest private lender as they fight western sanctions

  • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    How long can Russia keep fighting the war in Ukraine?

    Putin’s war machine is under enormous pressure, but Russia has the resources to sustain its efforts in Ukraine for some time to come

  • Friday, 17 February, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    ‘If there’s a war, call it a war’: Russia’s relentless crackdown on free speech

    Year since Ukraine invasion has been the most repressive in Russia’s modern history

  • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
    North Korea
    Chinese broker exposed by FT investigation into North Korea oil trade arrested

    South Korean authorities detain shipping agent amid fears of flight risk after activities revealed

  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Russian radio host Alexei Venediktov: ‘We didn’t hear the sound of army boots marching’

    The prominent Moscow-based journalist on the folly of war in Ukraine, staying on friendly terms with Kremlin insiders — and what he told Putin about his place in history

  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Russian forces in ‘full control’ of Soledar, says defence ministry

    Kremlin claims to have captured eastern Ukrainian town at centre of frontline fighting

  • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Russia demotes ‘General Armageddon’ after battlefield failures

    Valery Gerasimov replaces Sergei Surovikin, who was appointed in October as head of Ukraine campaign

  • Sunday, 8 January, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Missiles and air strikes hit Ukraine targets as Orthodox Christmas ends

    Kyiv says Russia did not observe its self-declared ceasefire over the holiday

  • Friday, 6 January, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Putin shifts war messaging to gird Russians for long fight in Ukraine

    Cinemas to show documentaries about the conflict to prepare for a possible new mobilisation push

  • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Vladimir Putin orders unilateral truce in Ukraine over Orthodox Christmas

    Kyiv rejects offer, which comes days after Russian troops suffered heavy casualties in the town of Makiivka

  • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    ‘Untrainable’: Russian army faces backlash over deaths of conscripts

    Missile strike in Russian-occupied Makiivka revives questions over military’s capacity to learn from past mistakes

  • Monday, 2 January, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Russia admits to deadly outcome of Ukrainian strike on military barracks

    Defence ministry says attack in Moscow-occupied Makiivka killed 63 troops but Russian war bloggers claim hundreds died

  • Wednesday, 21 December, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Russia’s resources for Ukraine war are unlimited despite ‘issues’, says Putin

    President’s remarks come amid Kremlin-sanctioned criticism of its armed forces

  • Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
    Russian politics
    Billionaire Deripaska’s Russian hotel complex seized after court order

    Legal dispute in Sochi underscores pressure facing wealthy oligarchs since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine

  • Friday, 16 December, 2022
    The Big Read
    How Putin’s technocrats saved the economy to fight a war they opposed

    Once thought of as reformers, the president’s economic confidants have ended up as enablers of an invasion they warned against

  • Friday, 16 December, 2022
    North Korea
    Fuel transfer from South to North Korea sheds light on sanctions evasion

    Rare spotting of ship-to-ship delivery illustrates difficulty of enforcing energy isolation of Pyongyang

  • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
    FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
    Fed enters a new phase

    Western sanctions steadily degrade Russian economy

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