Anastasia Stognei
@NastyaStognei
Russia correspondent @FT. Previously BBC, The Bell and RBC
HBO 'Agents of Chaos' associate producer
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https://www.ft.com/stream/e6e139d2-31f3-472a-960d-8e2777aae8de 01-03-2019 17:02:20
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Anastasia Stognei writes a dispatch on the situation in Georgia for FT with focus on Ivanishvili. Mainly descriptive. Good primer for those, who know little about Georgia and what has been happening there since 2012. Aslan Abashidze's fate awaits Ivanishvili. ft.com/content/07e24d…
A US crackdown on banks financing trade in goods for Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine – and the fear of secondary sanctions – has made it much more difficult to move money in and out of Russia.
Latest with Chris Cook Anastasia Stognei ft.com/content/b4a556…
“I feel no pain. The head, the eye and the body will heal. The fight against the Putinists must continue,” Georgia's main opposition party leader Levan Khabeishvili said after riot police beat him up during the ongoing fight over the country's EU future
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The largest western banks in Russia paid the Kremlin more than €800mn in taxes last year, a fourfold increase on prewar levels, despite promises to minimise their exposure after the invasion of Ukraine, Euan Healy and Anastasia Stognei report on.ft.com/3UBv6k3
“If the law is adopted, it will mean a total Belarusization of Georgia: the destruction of the NGO sector, an exodus of young people and skilled workers,” said Vano Chkhikvadze, EU integration program manager Civil Society Foundation
My today's dispatch from Tbilisi
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Viktor Medvedchuk is at it again.
European officials have accused the Ukrainian “Prince of Darkness” & Putin pal of bribing EU lawmakers as part of a Russian influence operation ahead of bloc elections in June.
w/ alicemhancock Henry Foy Anastasia Stognei
on.ft.com/3xd75Xs
Ukraine has stepped up drone strikes on oil refineries deep inside Russia, in what officials depict as an intensifying effort to hit the country’s economy.
Christopher Miller and Anastasia Stognei have the latest: ft.com/content/4bd2b7…