Anastasia Haydulina

Anastasia Haydulina is Russia Today's News correspondent and anchor.

Her work takes her across Russia and the CIS, covering breaking news as well as in-depth feature stories.

Since joining the channel in 2006, Anastasia has provided live coverage of the Parliamentary crisis in Ukraine in August 2006 and April 2007 and investigated the previously untold story of protesters for hire.

She has reported from the frozen frontline in Nagorno-Karabakh, de-facto independence celebrations in Transdniester, and elections in Tajikistan and Stavropol.

From mine explosions in Siberia to the Iraq war Senate vote in Washington DC, Anastasia takes the audience to where the story is.

She was first with relatives in St Petersburg, after the Donetsk plane crash, August 2006, first on the scene during deportations of Georgian citizens in a Moscow airport, October 2006. Anastasia secretly filmed an Iranian refugee family living in the Moscow airport transit zone. She followed a team of scientists racing after a satellite freefall in the Kazakh steppes as a one-man band.

She has reported from Kosovo in March 2006 and the Israel/Gaza boarder and the West bank territories following Hamas seize of power in July 2007.

At home in Moscow she has filed a number of exclusive interviews, including with OSCE President Miguel Moratinos, the President of Abkhazia Eduard Kokoyte, and Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov.

Anastasia was nominated at the International festival in Monte Carlo for her “Xenophobia in Russian Politics” feature.

Before joining RTTV, Anastasia worked as a news reporter in Long Island, New York. Anastasia graduated with honors from the New School University in New York with a Bachelor’s degree in History before going on to acquire a Master’s in Communications from New York Institute of Technology.