Lucy Ash
@LucyAAsh
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Foreign affairs broadcaster and author; BBC presenter. Author @iconbooks Trustee @JerwoodF *SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2025* & PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE
London
Joined February 2010
I started reporting on the Soviet Union in my twenties. Just a couple of years on I am thrilled that my first book about Putin, power and the Church is out on Thursday. Preorders:
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RT @johnkampfner: Why is it that we focus on one or two, but care so little about so many wars? @ForeignPolicy .In honour of Natalia Estemi….
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Kremlin, Kirill and Crooks: Unholy Russian Orthodox Church via @YouTube My invigorating conversation with former US intelligence agent and author @DavidDebatto.
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RT @v_pashtouki: “I spent over five years in solitary. For nearly three, I didn’t get a single letter. It was total isolation.”. Siarhei Ts….
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RT @bbcworldservice: Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo has attracted global fame for his bold and sensual portraits — he’s also one of the first….
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RT @iconbooks: Best of luck to @LucyAAsh , author of The Baton and the Cross, whose brilliant radio documentary about the Russian Orthodox….
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RT @TheOrwellPrize: "I write to make sense of a world that often seems chaotic.". Why do we write? New for @lithub, 12 Orwell Prize finalis….
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RT @ThingsUnseenPod: We're honoured and excited that our BBC World Service documentary, Russia's Africa Crusade, has been shortlisted for t….
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It was great talking to.@ABCaustralia's David Marr on Late Night Live about angst in America, emasculated men, Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church. Listen here: via @ABCaustralia.
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Really enjoyed my chat with @poliaesthete earlier this year @Pushkin_House on the toxic church/state embrace.
In February, @LucyAAsh joined our curator of Art and Programmes @poliaesthete in conversation about her book ‘The Baton and the Cross: Russia’s Church from Pagan’s to Putin’ – shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2025. Catch up online at
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Elon Musk’s dad who said “it would be foolish not to admire Putin�� rocking up in Moscow today for conference organised by ultra Orthodox Tsargrad Institute. Source: The Kyiv Independent
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At a time when all the talk is of closing borders, Rotterdam opens a new art museum inspired by stories of migration. Definitely worth a visit.
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RT @FelicityBryan: Massive congrats to @LucyAAsh and her brilliant book, THE BATON AND THE CROSS.
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RT @TheOrwellPrize: “These books show us how we got here." – Kim Darroch, Chair of Judges. Announcing the eight finalists for the 2025 Orwe….
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Russian Community sounds like an anodyne name but this ultra Orthodox group is one of the scariest so far:
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Why did "a soft, timid intellectual" call for Alexei Navalny’s murder ? What turned many smart, well educated and independent minded journalists of the 90s into Kremlin stooges? Read @AndreiSoldatov & @irinaborogan's brave new book about old friends:
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