Polina Ivanova

Moscow Correspondent, Financial Times

Russian Federation

Polina is a British-Russian journalist based in Moscow. She joined the Financial Times as Moscow Correspondent in September 2021.

Previously, she was a Special Correspondent covering Russia for the Reuters global investigative team.

In an earlier role, she reported on the metals & mining sector in Russia as a commodities correspondent, also for Reuters.

She moved to Russia from the UK in 2017, after completing a BA in History & Politics at Oxford University, where she was also President of the Oxford Union.

Selected stories below.

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REUTERS 2018-2021

Reuters
04/29/2021
SPECIAL REPORT: Destination: Elga

A Russian telecoms magnate plans to spend billions on the Siberian coal project, despite terrain that is covered by snow up to eight months a year and the doomed efforts of the previous owner. As many Western countries move away from the fossil fuel, Moscow doubles down on production and turns east, to Asia.

Elections

Reuters
03/21/2018
Identical twins and 'carousels': Russia's fairground election

Ludmila Sklyarevskaya, a Russian hospital administrator, voted on Sunday in an election that gave Vladimir Putin another term as Russia's president. Then she went to another polling station and voted again, according to Reuters reporters who witnessed her movements.

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Reuters
12/05/2018
Caught in Russia-Ukraine storm: a cargo ship and tonnes of grain

BERDYANSK, Ukraine - When the Island Bay cargo ship arrived from Beirut at the Kerch Strait, gateway to the Azov Sea, it sailed into a perfect storm of geopolitics and bad weather. The following day, Russia opened fire on three Ukrainian naval ships, impounded them and detained their sailors, some of them wounded.

Reuters
09/25/2018
Above the Russian Arctic Circle, prisoners of Putin's pension reform

VORKUTA, Russia - Russian railway worker Andrey Bugera had a singular goal: get to pension age so he can leave the polluted, frigid coal mining town above the Arctic Circle where he works and move south to live out even a brief bit of retirement in comfort. In June, in the space of two weeks, three of his friends died before reaching the age of 50.

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