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    Max Seddon

    Moscow bureau chief

    Max Seddon has been the FT's Moscow bureau chief since 2021 and leads coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He was previously a correspondent in the Moscow bureau, where he wrote about the tug-of-war over money and power between the Kremlin, Russian oligarchs, and state companies, as well as topics from the Orthodox Church to football. Before that, he covered Russia and Ukraine for BuzzFeed News and the Associated Press.
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    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Tracking Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia in maps

      A visual guide to the war

      Montage of map of Ukraine and tanks
    • Sunday, 12 November, 2023
      FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: economy and trade
      The shadowy network smuggling microchips into Russia

      A rare look inside a covert Russian-led operation to get strategic technology protected by European export controls into the hands of the state

      An image of Maxim Ermakov, asleep on a boat
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      News in-depthCarlsberg AS
      ‘Blood in the water’: How Carlsberg lost its Russian business

      Baltika’s success made it a target for seizure as Kremlin loyalists are rewarded with key assets

    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      Russian economy
      Russia adds more than 3tn roubles to its budget

      Extra spending highlights ballooning cost of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine

    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      US targets China, Turkey and UAE in latest Russia sanctions

      Companies and individuals are listed for helping Moscow in its war in Ukraine

      Janet Yellen
    • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
      FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: Putin’s motivations
      Why Putin toned down his nuclear rhetoric

      Russia’s president unnerved his foes and friends about the war in Ukraine turning into an atomic conflagration

      A montage of Vladimir Putin and a Yars intercontinental ballistic missile being test fired
    • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
      Europe Express
      Why the EU and US are still arguing over Biden’s $369bn green subsidies Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: What does the antisemitic airport riot in Russia mean?

      US Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo
    • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
      News in-depthRussian politics
      What antisemitic attacks in Dagestan say about Putin’s Russia

      Riot in Muslim-majority region reminiscent of tsarist-era pogroms, says former chief rabbi

      Vladimir Putin
    • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
      News in-depthRussian economy
      Russia tightens capital controls on western companies

      Restrictions on foreign currency transactions are aimed at shoring up rouble

      A montage of Vladimir Putin’s photo and some rouble notes
    • Monday, 30 October, 2023
      Russian business & finance
      Russian oligarch Alexei Kuzmichev held by French police

      Sanctions-hit billionaire’s properties in Paris and southern France searched

      Alexei Kuzmichev
    • Monday, 30 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Russian police arrest 60 people over Dagestan airport riot

      Kremlin blames violence in Muslim-majority region on ‘external interference’ by the west

      Crowd on the runway of the airport in Makhachkala in the Dagestan region of Russia
    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      Chinese politics & policy
      Xi hails ‘deep friendship’ with Putin as leaders meet in Beijing

      China’s president says annual bilateral trade with Russia has reached a ‘historic high’ of nearly $200bn

      Russia’s president Vladimir Putin and China’s president Xi Jinping at a meeting during the Belt and Road forum in Beijing, China
    • Tuesday, 17 October, 2023
      Hungary
      Orbán meets Putin in bid to ‘save everything possible’ in bilateral relations

      European head is first western leader to meet Russian president since issue of war crimes warrant for his arrest

      Viktor Orbán and Vladimir Putin shake hands
    • Tuesday, 17 October, 2023
      Russian politics
      Putin visits Beijing for first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

      Russian president met Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Tuesday ahead of summit tomorrow

    • Monday, 16 October, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Qatar brokers deal to return Ukrainian children taken by Russia

      Four children to be reunited with families are first since international mediators began negotiating with Moscow

      Children disembarking from a bus embrace their father
    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      Alexei Navalny
      Russia arrests three of Alexei Navalny’s lawyers

      Detaining defence team of jailed opposition leader likely to deepen his isolation

      Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny
    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      Russian rouble
      Russian rouble rebounds after Kremlin brings back capital controls

      Decree from Vladimir Putin will force exporters to sell some of their foreign currency revenues for roubles

      Vladimir Putin in a chair, looking to his right. Part of a colourful flag can be seen in the background
    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      News in-depthRussian politics
      Russian émigrés to Israel don’t look back despite war with Hamas

      Kremlin propagandists mock and threaten those who fled after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

      A woman lights a candle in front of the Israeli embassy in Moscow
    • Monday, 9 October, 2023
      Mikhail Fridman
      Sanctions-hit oligarch Mikhail Fridman returns to Moscow

      Alfa Group co-founder departed UK for Israel last month but returned to Russia after Hamas attacked Israel on Saturday

      Mikhail Fridman
    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russia to set up permanent naval base in breakaway Georgian region

      Part of Black Sea fleet will move from Crimea to Abkhazia following attacks by Ukraine

      Abkhazia’s leader Aslan Bzhania with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov
    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russia scrambles to cover ballooning cost of Ukraine war

      One-off budget revenues to go up in 2024 as Moscow’s defence spending has tripled

      Russian soldiers patrol at the Mariupol drama theatre last year
    • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
      Carlsberg AS
      Carlsberg prepares for fight over Russian unit’s right to sell its brands

      Baltika is challenging Danish brewer’s attempt to terminate licence agreements for international labels

      Bottles of Carlsberg beer in Russia
    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
      Carlsberg AS
      Carlsberg writes off value of Russian operation

      Danish brewer accuses Moscow of ‘illegitimate takeover’ of Russian business

      Worker inspects bottles at a Carlsberg plant in St Petersburg, Russia
    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
      Russian rouble
      Rouble falls past 100 to dollar after boost from higher rates fades

      Currency extends losses as sanctions weigh on export revenues

      People walk on the Red Square in Moscow, Russia
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Putin appoints Wagner commander to lead Ukraine militia ops

      Andrei Troshev led fighters for years before falling out with his then-boss Yevgeny Prigozhin in June

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