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Jason Corcoran

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Dublin, London
As seen in: LinkedIn, MSN Ireland, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg News, Business Insider, MSN India, The Guardian, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News, Substack and
Covers:  investment, investment banks, ukraine, georgia, russia, finance, politics, banking, corporate governance, breaking news, moscow, kazakhstan
Doesn't Cover: fishing, toxic chemical reform
Author of the book, Leaving Russia, published in May 2026. Journalist for Sunday Times (UK), Business Insider (US), Moscow Times, Irish Independent. LFC 🏆

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Russia and CIS specialist who has worked for Bloomberg and Dow Jones/ Wall Street Journal and whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Irish Times, the Independent, the Times and the Irish Independent. I cover news, business, technology, Irish/UK politics, Brexit, sport, World Cup 2018, culture and uncontrollable meteors that occasionally crash to earth.

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World's Top Financial Firms Exit Russia as Economy Slumps

World's Top Financial Firms Exit Russia as Economy Slumps

From Franklin Templeton Investments to BNP Paribas SA, global financial firms that once pushed to expand in R…

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Evercore Halts Dealmaking With VTB Capital Amid Sanctions

Evercore Halts Dealmaking With VTB Capital Amid Sanctions

Evercore Partners Inc., the merger-advisory firm founded by Roger Altman, is ending a relationship with VTB C…

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Russia Terminates Contract With National Soccer Coach Capello

Russia Terminates Contract With National Soccer Coach Capello

Russia agreed with national soccer team coach Fabio Capello to end his contract early as the country tries to…

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Ireland Delays Quinn's Russian Asset Sale After Prices Dived

Ireland Delays Quinn's Russian Asset Sale After Prices Dived

Ireland is postponing the sale of Russian and Ukrainian assets accumulated from the family of the former bill…

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Russian Banks Scale Back London Growth Plans as Sanctions Bite

Russian Banks Scale Back London Growth Plans as Sanctions Bite

Russia's biggest lenders are scaling back their London investment banking ambitions as sanctions curb deal-ma…

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Russia Investment Banking Fees Evaporate as Sanctions Halt Deals

Russia Investment Banking Fees Evaporate as Sanctions Halt Deals

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. are among securities firms that have seen Russian investment bank…

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Why hasn't Ireland nationalised Aughinish Alumina?

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By Jason Corcoran 
| Irish Examiner
At a presentation in Dublin last Thursday to Irish executives and entrepreneurs, I half-joked that perhaps one of Putin’s oligarchs holds kompromat over the Irish Government. How else to explain Ireland's continuing deference to Rusal, the aluminium giant founded by oligarch Oleg Deripaska? The remark was made partly in jest.
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I was playing Jenga with my young son in Dublin when I received a threat from Moscow

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By Jason Corcoran 
| The Irish Times
It was January 2023, almost a year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. I was sitting on the floor of my home in Dublin with my four-year-old son, Farid, setting up a game of Jenga. My phone buzzed on the couch beside me as I topped off the tower of blocks. It was a message from an anonymous account on Telegram, the encrypted messaging app widely used in Russia. “Hi Jason, are you in Moscow at the moment? ” The account had no name, no photograph. Just a blank avatar.
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Sanctioned Russian Tycoons Are Still Profiting From Industries in Europe

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By Jason Corcoran 
| The Moscow Times
When President Vladimir Putin gathered Russia’s top businessmen in the Kremlin for a wartime whip round on Thursday, there was no ambiguity about what was happening: the only way to have industrial wealth in Russia is to be aligned with the state’s objectives. According to The Bell, figures including longtime Putin ally Oleg Deripaska agreed to help bankroll the war in Ukraine.
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the Daily Star

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no

How is social media changing news?

it's making it all messy

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