Among the many crazy things in the Trump indictment: Hard evidence that Trump stashed away **an FT front page on the EU budget** A top secret Guy Chazan and Mehreen Khan scoop from 2019 ft.com/content/9c8243…

“We say goodbye to those companies. And what we do with their assets after that is our business.” Putin is giving Russia powers to buy departing western companies at a knock-down price – opening a “Pandora’s box” to nationalizations. with Anastasia Stognei: on.ft.com/3XagTKp

Roscosmos: avoiding sanctions because it’s a NASA partner and still does space missions with the US Also Roscosmos: has a battalion fighting in Ukraine Come for ⁦Polina Ivanova⁩’s great reporting, stay to giggle at “Turbonasos” ft.com/content/c194cb…

Just noticed that the Financial Times has pulled together some of our reporting on daily life in Russia since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine -- much of it reported on the ground. Find some of the highlights collected here: ft.com/content/bcb950…

“He added too much salt and pepper. What else do you expect from a chef?” How Yevgeny Prigozhin went from Russia's favorite secret weapon to a Frankenstein's monster threatening the state – and how Putin's the one to blame. ft.com/content/6f520b…

When .ML is used instead of .MIL the Malinese government receives sensitive info instead of the US military. Dutch contractor has tried to raise the issue >> Typo leaks millions of US military emails to Mali web operator ↘️ on.ft.com/3Oi9jLd

Germans' love of cash, a highly decentralised police force and a fragmented banking system has turned the country into Europe’s ground zero for ATM attackers. But authorities are upping their game. My report about a mad crime wave is finally out. ft.com/content/5a03b0…

Putin says Russia is willing to give Africa free grain after pulling out of the Black Sea grain deal. What that really means: Qatar would pay Russia for the grain – some of which may be stolen from occupied Ukraine – and the blockade stands. The latest: on.ft.com/3Opz3p5

Girkin called for Putin’s downfall this week. “The country cannot survive another six years of this cowardly low-life in power,” he wrote on his Telegram channel. Girkin’s wife announced his detention on the same channel on Friday. ft.com/content/ac3847…

Oleg Tinkov says “cowards” among Russia's oligarchs need to speak out against Putin's war in Ukraine. “Sitting between two chairs like they did for the last 30 years, with a house in Belgravia and being friends with Putin, doesn’t work anymore.” ft.com/content/8b8562…

The curious case of the Chinese foreign minister ft.com/content/c11635…

Read this by Benjamin Parkin on cricket's new global superpower: "#India is quickly eclipsing England and Australia as the ultimate power in global cricket, revolutionising the game in ways early proponents in London or Melbourne could never have imagined." ft.com/content/b47dae…

🚨Some personal news... Very excited to start today as the Financial Times Brussels bureau chief, leading a stupendous team of reporters covering the EU's good, bad and ugly: from war to economic malaise, climate change, busted budgets & an existential enlargement question!

FT SCOOP BP chief executive Bernard Looney to resign Tom Wilson murphyp and team MORE TO COME ft.com/content/b7b634…

"Three US officials and two people briefed on the intelligence said the US had concluded that Li, who has not been seen in public for more than two weeks, had been stripped of his responsibilities as defence minister." ft.com/content/d0fa10…

I got in touch with Tucker Carlson about the show Russian state TV is advertising, supposedly starring him. "Of course I’m not hosting a show on Russian television. That’s absurd," he says. "More Russia-related bullshit. There’s so much I can’t keep up.” ft.com/content/5e2040…

Next Tuesday we launch HOT MONEY: THE NEW NARCOS, a new eight part investigative podcast into international organised crime made with a brilliant team from Pushkin Industries 🎙️ and the Financial Times

INVESTIGATION #ChinaSpies How a Chinese spy ran a Belgian politician as an intelligence asset — Joint investigation with @DerSpiegel & @LeMondefr based on 3.5 years of texts between the MSS case officer and his asset in Brussels. on.ft.com/3No90xC

“Russia now makes over 100 long-range missiles a month, compared with about 40 at the start of invasion, and around 300 attack drones, according to Ukrainian and western officials.” ft.com/content/1d1eb1…

Inside the BJP machine: In today's Financial Times, we looked at the organisational methods and huge numbers of people the BJP, which describes itself as the world's largest political party, deploys to win elections. ft.com/content/d5a1df… Benjamin Parkin jyotsna singh Andy Lin 林佳賢 and me via @ft