Sarah RainsfordSarah 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 baed in Moscow from then until her expulsion as a 'security threat' on 31 August 2021. She is now the BBC's Southern and Eastern Europe correspondent, based in Rome. Read More Read Less