Hanna Liubakova
Freelance journalist
Belarus
Hanna Liubakova is a freelance journalist from Belarus. She started her career at the only independent Belarusian TV channel Belsat, where she worked as a correspondent from London, Prague, Vilnius, Warsaw and the EU Parliament in Brussels, among others. Hanna later moved on to work as an investigative journalist, focusing on financial and money laundering issues.
Highlights of her work include exposing state-level corruption in infrastructure in Belarus and reporting on money laundering in the London real estate market, with a focus on post-Soviet countries. She was a recipient of the Vaclav Havel Fellowship at Radio Free Europe, as well as the Nordic Council scholarship ESSYB.