Tony Halpin
@tonyhalpin
government editor at @Business covering Russia and former Soviet republics. All views my own. Retweets are interesting but not endorsements.
In our new investigation into Russia's use of children for their military drone program, crucial evidence came from @tashurkevich's undercover phone calls. Here are some of the most striking confessions she extracted.
EXCLUSIVE: Ukraine’s new PM @Svyrydenko_Y says she’s likely to seek more financing from the International Monetary Fund as she sets out to shore up the nation’s fiscal needs bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Joseph Stalin's cult of personality was dismantled by Soviet leaders in the 1960s — but thanks to Putin, his reputation is undergoing a dramatic revision bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
🚨🚨🚨Top executives at some of Russia’s biggest banks have privately discussed seeking a state-funded bailout if the level of bad loans on their books continues to worsen over the next year bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The flow of foreign currency into Russia is drying up as trade increasingly shifts to ruble payments bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
It’s three years since Valentina said goodbye to her kiosk in Moscow and moved back to Kursk. Here’s a reminder of her last day at work. For those who’ve been following her story I can tell you that Valentina remains upbeat & positive after her cancer treatment.
Russia’s coal industry has slipped into crisis under the weight of high borrowing costs and sanctions bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
North Korea is now supplying as much as 40% of Russia’s ammunition for the war in Ukraine, according to the head of Ukrainian military intelligence bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Ukraine and its European allies are left wondering if Trump is starting to pivot toward confronting Russia as the aggressor in the war bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
— but many in Labour still want to borrow their way out — Labour MP Melanie Onn today says fiscal rules should be relaxed — that demand comes *after* this week’s bond market turmoil — Onn is far from alone — one trading desk view of that: “Insane” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites have shown the limits of Russia’s ability to defend its allies. It might yet be to Putin’s advantage bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
Russian President Putin says he isn’t seeking Ukraine’s “capitulation” as a way to end the war, even as he reiterated his claim that the two countries are one people bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Russia is watching Israel’s bombardment of Iran with mounting concern for the survival of a key ally bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
There are some 70,000 women in Ukraine's armed forces today. Watch our short documentary about them in full here: 6/6 youtube.com/watch?v=8pTyKN…
Moscow’s famed metro system has unveiled a Soviet-era monument to Josef Stalin in one of its central stations, as part of a gradual reappraisal of the dictator’s legacy in Russia bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Pope Leo XIV’s proposed role hosting Ukraine-Russia peace talks in the Vatican marks a significant development for the first US-born pontiff bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Russia and Ukraine begin their first direct talks in more than three years in Turkey, amid US and European skepticism about prospects for a peace deal to end the war bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Grigory’s Ode to Joy Facing six years in prison, Russian election monitor Grigory Melkonyants delivers closing statement in court mdza.io/b/3cP0B_QLKg via @meduza_en
A separatist Kurdish group agreed to lay down arms to end a 40-year war for autonomy against Turkey, a step that could strengthen the NATO member’s aspirations to become a regional powerhouse bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The Trump administration is set to accept a luxury jumbo jet from Qatar’s royal family, in what may be the most valuable gift ever received from a foreign government, ABC reports. The Boeing 747-8 is to be used as Air Force One, ABC says, citing sources bloomberg.com/news/articles/…