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Ksenia Kondratieva

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Moscow, Mumbai, St. Petersburg
As seen in: Substack, Frontline India, The Hindu, The Hindu Business Line, The Wire (India), The Week (India), Fontanka.Ru, 3AM Magazine, Global Government Forum, The Signal (India) and
Covers:  geopolitics, economics, business, climate change, power&energy, social issues, gender, equality, poverty, developing countries
Doesn't Cover: fashion, sport, entertainment
Independent journalist, shuttling between Moscow and Mumbai. Ex-Hindu BusinessLine, Ex-RBTH Asia. More active on Telegram: t.me/russiawire

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Freelance journalist currently based in St. Petersburg & Moscow, Russia. Previously - 8 years in Mumbai, India. I have over 15 years of reporting experience in various sectors, from oil & gas, defence and infrastructure to banking & finance, telecom & IT.
For the past 10 years, I have been closely covering Indo-Russian bilateral relations and Russia's foreign policy in Southeast Asian region.
Before moving to South Asia in 2009, worked as a business reporter and editor of various daily & weekl…

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Ukraine Crisis: Why Kramatorsk has not become another Bucha

Ukraine Crisis: Why Kramatorsk has not become another Bucha

On the morning of April, 7, the Tochka-U missile hit a train station in the Ukrainian town of Kramatorsk kill…

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Will 'Russia's Google' turn into 'Russia's Tencent'?

Will 'Russia's Google' turn into 'Russia's Tencent'?

Two month into the standoff with Ukraine, Russia has surpassed Iran as the most sanctioned country in the wor…

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Ukraine Crisis: truth that sunk with Russian flagship "Moskva"

Ukraine Crisis: truth that sunk with Russian flagship "Moskva"

The defense officials have not specified the exact number of people who were onboard at the time of the fire …

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Russia eyes buyers for Ka-226T Climber helicopter

Russia eyes buyers for Ka-226T Climber helicopter

The Russian helicopter manufacturer has put its new Ka-226T Climber helicopter, intended to be sold to India …

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Investing locally, serving globally: a unique case of Russia’s IT investment in India

Investing locally, serving globally: a unique case of Russia’s IT investment in India

Over the past 7 years, the Indian arm of Russian IT solution and service provider Softline Group has grown fr…

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Covid-19 vaccine diplomacy: the Russian way

Covid-19 vaccine diplomacy: the Russian way

Russia’s Sputnik V, the first Covid-19 vaccine registered globally, has been a subject of fascination and cri…

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The ghost of the USSR: How the Soviet legacy shapes modern Russia

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By Ksenia Kondratieva
| The Week (India) Verified
You cannot overstate the surprise of a Russian traveller landing in South India, only to hear names such as Lenin, Stalin, Brezhnev and Gagarin. Westerners find it even funnier, often assuming it is a joke. But take a short stroll through the towns of Kerala, where red communist flags still splash across walls, and any Russian over 50 feels a vivid jolt of memory. In Russia today, the Communist Party (CPRF) remains the second most popular political force, trailing only the ruling United Russia.
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Navalny was viewed with suspicion in Russia, but was a hero to the world

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By Ksenia Kondratieva
| The Week (India) Verified
Alexei Navalny, probably the most famous critic of the Kremlin, died on February 16, in a high-security penal colony nicknamed ‘Polar Wolf’, located in the Yamalo-Nenets region, north of the Arctic Circle. Navalny was serving a 19-year sentence on charges of extremism since August 2023. Before his final incarceration, he had to face several other legal cases, sentences, home arrests and an episode of alleged poisoning in 2020. Navalny led the Anti-Corruption Foundation, which he set up in 2011.
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Inside story from Russia: How Prigozhin built up his empire and got close to Putin

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By Ksenia Kondratieva
| The Week (India) Verified
Just a few days after Russia experienced a brief turmoil that saw fighters of the Wagner group marching towards Moscow, the mercenary group’s name was removed from the glossy facade of its headquarters in Saint Petersburg. Some organisations associated with its now exiled chief Yevgeny Prigozhin are being shut down and contracts with some others are getting cancelled. The recruitment to Wagner has been put on hold in some of the 40-odd centres the company has opened up across Russia.
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