Alex Barker
@alexebarker
World News Editor @FinancialTimes, ex Brussels bureau chief, media writer. Podcast: Hot Money. Sometimes dreams in Turkish. [email protected]
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https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/hot-money-who-rules-porn/id1621757273 17-06-2009 23:37:06
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Next Tuesday we launch HOT MONEY: THE NEW NARCOS, a new eight part investigative podcast into international organised crime made with a brilliant team from Pushkin Industries 🎙️ and the Financial Times
🚨Some personal news...
Very excited to start today as the Financial Times Brussels bureau chief, leading a stupendous team of reporters covering the EU's good, bad and ugly: from war to economic malaise, climate change, busted budgets & an existential enlargement question!
Just noticed that the Financial Times has pulled together some of our reporting on daily life in Russia since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine -- much of it reported on the ground.
Find some of the highlights collected here: ft.com/content/bcb950…
Roscosmos: avoiding sanctions because it’s a NASA partner and still does space missions with the US
Also Roscosmos: has a battalion fighting in Ukraine
Come for Polina Ivanova’s great reporting, stay to giggle at “Turbonasos” ft.com/content/c194cb…
“We say goodbye to those companies. And what we do with their assets after that is our business.”
Putin is giving Russia powers to buy departing western companies at a knock-down price – opening a “Pandora’s box” to nationalizations. with Anastasia Stognei:
on.ft.com/3XagTKp
Among the many crazy things in the Trump indictment:
Hard evidence that Trump stashed away **an FT front page on the EU budget**
A top secret Guy Chazan and Mehreen Khan scoop from 2019
ft.com/content/9c8243…
A big shout out to Alex Barker & Patricia Nilsson (and Financial Times audio boss Cheryl Brumley) for yet another big honor for #HotMoney . For those who haven’t listened yet, all episodes on iTunes, Spotify or here: ft.com/content/762e46…