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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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    • Thursday, 14 December, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Putin vows to fight until Ukraine ‘goals are achieved’

      Russian president fields questions at length for first time since ordering invasion

      Russian president Vladimir Putin at a news conference in Moscow, Russia on December 14 2023
    • Tuesday, 12 December, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      US hits Turkish and Chinese companies over Russia trade

      Latest sanctions package aims to stem flow of sensitive war-related goods to Moscow

      A montage of Vladimir Putin with the flags of Turkey, the UAE and China along with images of a drone, a ball bearing and microchip
    • Friday, 8 December, 2023
      Western business, the Kremlin and the war
      Danone’s Chechen takeover: inside a Russian expropriation

      Business handed to warlord’s nephew has retained much of the French dairy group’s previous management

      Yakub Zakriyev
    • Sunday, 3 December, 2023
      Russian politics
      Russian army snaps up Chinese off-road buggies popular in US

      Purchase of hundreds of all-terrain vehicles made by Shandong Odes could put exports to west at risk

      Vladimir Putin accompanied by Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu and army chief of staff Valery Gerasimov as he visits the military headquarters in Rostov-on-Don
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russia has stockpiled missiles for winter attack on Ukraine, says Nato

      Jens Stoltenberg urges allies not to ‘underestimate’ Moscow and its war economy

      Rescuers in front of a damaged hospital
    • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
      Finland
      Finland to close all land borders with Russia after migrant influx

      Helsinki says tactic by Moscow is deliberate and poses ‘serious threat to national security’

      Migrants are seen at the international border crossing at Salla, northern Finland, on November 22
    • Monday, 27 November, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Turkey’s exports of military-linked goods to Russia soar

      Growth in shipments of restricted parts fuels western suspicions that Turkish companies are conduit for Moscow

      Montage of Kremlin and a chart
    • Sunday, 26 November, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russia claims to repel Ukrainian drones after record air strikes on Kyiv

      Ukraine fears start of Moscow winter campaign aimed at destroying energy infrastructure

    • 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
      Western business, the Kremlin and the war
      ‘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
      Western business, the Kremlin and the war
      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
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