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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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    • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel grapples with ‘Eichmann’ dilemma over Hamas attack trials

      Proposal for dealing with October 7 suspects prompts comparisons with proceedings against Nazi war criminal

      Armed men cross the Beit Hanoun Crossing between Israel and the northern Gaza Strip on October 7
    • Monday, 19 February, 2024
      ExplainerWar in Ukraine
      Tracking Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia in maps

      A visual guide to the war

      Montage of map of Ukraine and tanks
    • Monday, 19 February, 2024
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel’s economy shrank at 20% rate after outbreak of war

      GDP plummeted in annualised terms in last three months of 2023 amid conflict with Hamas

      Israeli soldiers in Gaza
    • Friday, 16 February, 2024
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      After Navalny: ‘They will arrest the activists . . .  then everything will die out’

      Opposition figure’s death leaves Russia’s Putin with ‘absolute’ power

      Candles surround photographs during a vigil for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, outside the Russian Embassy in Riga, Latvia
    • Friday, 16 February, 2024
      Israel-Hamas war
      Five patients dead after Israeli raid on Gaza hospital, officials say

      Nasser Medical Complex lost power and oxygen supplies after IDF took control in hunt for Hamas

      Damage from the raid inside the Nasser Medical Complex on
    • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      Families ask Putin to bring Russian soldiers home from Ukraine

      Rare protest outside Kremlin sheds light on ‘unfair’ time periods spent on the front by mobilised men

      Relatives of men drafted into the Russian army gather in Moscow
    • Saturday, 10 February, 2024
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israeli air strikes hit Rafah hours after Netanyahu ordered evacuation plan

      Israeli army says four Hamas battalions are stationed in the densely-populated city

    • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
      Visual investigation
      Russia’s sham rebuild of one Ukrainian city

      Residents of Mariupol live in half-built homes while Russian companies profit from contracts worth millions

      A composite image showing a map of Mariupol, a damaged apartment block in the city and a Russian tank
    • Sunday, 21 January, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      Russian operator blames ‘external action’ for fire at Baltic gas terminal

      Operations suspended at Ust-Luga plant outside St Petersburg following incident

      The blaze at Ust-Luga terminal
    • Monday, 8 January, 2024
      Israel-Hamas war
      Thai worker describes ordeal as Gaza captive

      Wichian Temthong was held for seven weeks in tunnels by Hamas with three Israelis later killed by IDF

      Wichian Temthong
    • Friday, 5 January, 2024
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      The Russian bakery making killer drones to support Putin’s war

      Bread factory hit with US sanctions for assembling UAVs used in Ukraine invasion

      Montage of bread loves on a shelf and drones in the sky
    • Thursday, 4 January, 2024
      InterviewIsrael-Hamas war
      Israel is pushing Palestinian governance to ‘edge of the edge’, PM warns

      Mohammad Shtayyeh hits out at sweeping restrictions in the occupied West Bank since war with Hamas began

      Mohammad Shtayyeh
    • Thursday, 4 January, 2024
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      Convertible bonds are so hot right now

      US companies are searching for ways to keep their interest costs down while raising capital

    • Wednesday, 3 January, 2024
      News in-depthRussian society
      The Russian murderers sent home as free men after fighting in Ukraine

      Victims’ families watch in horror as those convicted of gruesome crimes are pardoned in exchange for military service

      Wagner group fighters wave flags on the top of a building in undisclosed location in Ukraine in May
    • Thursday, 28 December, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel’s Benny Gantz threatens to intensify military action against Hizbollah

      Minister says time for a diplomatic solution is running out amid fears conflict could spread

      Portraits of Hizbollah members killed in southern Lebanon
    • Wednesday, 27 December, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Israel begins ground combat operations in central Gaza

      Hundreds killed in bombardment of camps in recent days, Palestinian officials say

      Smoke rises above Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip following Israeli army shelling
    • Tuesday, 26 December, 2023
      Alexei Navalny
      Russian opposition leader Navalny located in Arctic prison

      Putin critic says he is ‘fine’ after supporters lost track of him for three weeks, raising fears about his safety

      Alexei Navalny
    • Monday, 25 December, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Netanyahu visits Israeli troops in Gaza and tells them war will not stop

      Prime minister forced to defend military campaign to parliament as Pope Francis cites conflict in his Christmas message

      Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, centre, wears a protective vest and helmet as he receives a security briefing with commanders and soldiers in the northern Gaza Strip
    • Monday, 25 December, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Maersk to resume Red Sea shipping under US-led naval coalition

      Container ships have come under attack from Iran-backed Houthis over Israel’s war against Hamas

      A Maersk container ship sails through the Suez Canal on Thursday
    • Saturday, 23 December, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      ‘We’re not celebrating’: Christmas called off in Bethlehem as Gaza war rages

      Festivities cancelled in town central to Christianity as residents grieve and tourists stay away

    • Thursday, 14 December, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Putin vows to fight until Ukraine ‘goals are achieved’

      Russian president fields questions at length for first time since ordering invasion

      Russian president Vladimir Putin at a news conference in Moscow, Russia on December 14 2023
    • Friday, 8 December, 2023
      Vladimir Putin
      Vladimir Putin announces bid for fifth term at Russia’s helm

      President expected to win next election in March after years of opposition crackdowns

      Vladimir Putin presents medals in the Kremlin
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      Russian politics
      Russia bans LGBT movement as ‘extremist’

      Supreme Court ruling places gay and transgender rights campaigns on legal par with al-Qaeda and Isis

      LGBT activists holding a rainbow flag
    • 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
    • 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%

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