Polina Ivanova
The Financial Times, ReutersPolina Ivanova is a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times, covering Russia and Ukraine. Born in St Petersburg and raised in the UK, she moved back to Russia to cover the country for Reuters, first as a commodities reporter and then a Special Correspondent on the investigative team.
Her shortlisted pieces are:
- ‘Russia’s conscience’ on trial as civil rights group faces closure
- ‘We were running from bullets’: Kazakhstan’s biggest city recovers from unrest
- Navalny protests? Not in this Russian city haunted by massacre at 1962 demonstration
- Russian guardsmen case reveals dissent in security force over invasion of Ukraine