Sarah Rainsford

Sarah Rainsford is an author and BBC foreign correspondent whose reporting career in Russia has spanned Vladimir Putin's two decades in power. After stints as BBC correspondent in Istanbul, Madrid and Havana, she returned to Russia in 2014 and was based in Moscow from then until her expulsion as a 'security threat' on 31 August 2021. She is now the BBC's Eastern Europe correspondent.

Sarah Rainsford is an author and BBC foreign correspondent whose reporting career in Russia has spanned Vladimir Putin's two decades in power. After stints as BBC correspondent in Istanbul, Madrid and Havana, she returned to Russia in 2014 and was based in Moscow from then until her expulsion as a 'security threat' on 31 August 2021. She is now the BBC's Eastern Europe correspondent. See less