After studying Russian at university, I spent most of 2007 living and working in Krasnodar in southern Russia. I continue to cover Russia, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus for a variety of publications. 

Here is a selection of my work:

• • IBA Global Insight
    • Pressure mounting to adopt ‘nuclear option’ against economies of authoritarian regimes
    • Russia attacks fundamental freedoms and rule of law as Navalny’s network targeted
    • Russia’s constitutional shake-up raises major human rights concerns
    • Russian stalemate with Council of Europe threatens access to justice
    • London calling time on the oligarchs
    • Russian corruption: growing calls for tougher sanctions to combat ‘dirty’ money
    • IOC lifts Russia ban but compliance questions remain
    • Russian doping and corruption revelations prompt arbitration rush ahead of Rio Olympics
    • Sports governance under scrutiny as Russian track and field banned from Rio
    • Getting sport back on track
  • The Guardian
    • Russia’s posthumous trial of lawyer shows corruption is still rife
    • A rocky road for US-Russian relations
    • Medvedev has failed to protect judiciary
  • The Lawyer
    • Magnitsky hearing postponed as mother urges Russian lawyers to boycott trial
    • Lawyers pressed to work on posthumous Magnitsky trial
    • The man fighting Putin over the rule of law in Russia
    • Light and shade
  • Huffington Post
    • Could Sochi provide the thaw that Anglo-Russian relations need?
    • One Hour and Eighteen Minutes
    • The Belarusian ‘Clapping’ Revolution
  • Prospect
    • On the record