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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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    • 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

    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
      Azerbaijan arrests Russian-Armenian billionaire fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh

      Ruben Vardanyan’s detention comes as Baku steps up hunt for leaders of the former breakaway state

      Ruben Vardanyan flanked by two Azerbaijani security officers
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Ziyavudin Magomedov
      Jailed oligarch accuses TPG of colluding with Kremlin to seize $14bn assets

      Ziyavudin Magomedov says US buyout group unlawfully sold stake in port business

      Ziyavudin Magomedov behind bars during a court hearing
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Oleg Deripaska
      Russia has proved resilient to western sanctions, says Deripaska

      Metals oligarch tells FT of his ‘surprise’ at performance of economy in wake of invasion of Ukraine

      Oleg Deripaska
    • Monday, 25 September, 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, 24 September, 2023
      Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
      Ethnic Armenians flee enclave as Azerbaijan asserts control

      Wave of Nagorno-Karabakh refugees expected to grow as Baku retakes territory following 35-year conflict

    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Russian economy
      Russia plans to increase spending by more than 25% next year

      Kremlin cites boosting ‘defence potential’ and integrating new regions for raising draft budget to $383bn

      Vladimir Putin
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Tucker Carlson
      Russian state TV promotes new Tucker Carlson show

      Rightwing former Fox News presenter said he was unaware of the ‘absurd’ claim

      Tucker Carlson
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
      Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh agree to disband

      Surrender represents potentially devastating blow to Armenia’s hold over territory

      A residential building and cars were damaged following an offensive by Azerbaijani armed forces in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict
      Azerbaijan launches ‘anti-terrorist’ operation in Nagorno-Karabakh

      Defence minister says it seeks to drive out ‘Armenian troops’ from the disputed enclave

      Stepanakert and plumes of smoke in hills behind it
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      InterviewLunch with the FT
      Andrey Melnichenko: ‘It’s pointless to talk about good and evil’

      Russia’s richest man on war crimes, the fallout from sanctions — and how the invasion of Ukraine made him a ‘pariah’ in Dubai

      An illustration of Andrey Melnichenko in a restaurant
    • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russian billionaire pleads for EU sanctions relief after decrying war

      Request from Yandex co-founder Arkady Volozh is test of whether bloc will reward Russians who break with Kremlin

    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Yevgeny Prigozhin
      Prigozhin crash was not caused by surface-to-air missile, says US

      Initial intelligence reports come as Russia’s president Vladimir Putin says Wagner leader is dead

      A member of Wagner pays tribute to Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitri Utkin, a founder of the militia, near its offices in Novosibirsk
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Africa
      Wagner’s lucrative African operations thrown into post-Prigozhin limbo

      Founder’s demise casts fresh doubt over Russia’s ability to maintain mercenary deployments on the continent

    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      News in-depthYevgeny Prigozhin
      ‘A signal for the whole elite’: the demise of Yevgeny Prigozhin

      Warlord’s plane crashes two months after coup against Vladimir Putin’s regime

      Montage of Vladimir Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin and a map
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      ExplainerRussian insurrection
      Russian insurrection: Prigozhin’s failed mutiny and the fallout

      A timeline of the Wagner militia’s uprising and what happened next

      Wagner group prepares to pull out from the headquarters of the Southern Military District to return to Rostov-on-Don
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      Yevgeny Prigozhin
      Prigozhin in fatal plane crash, Russian officials say

      Ten die on flight from Moscow to St Petersburg, according to emergency ministry

      A photograph posted on a Wagner-linked Telegram channel showing burning plane wreckage in the Tver region north-west of Moscow
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      Emerging markets
      Putin says Russian city of Kazan will host Brics summit in 2024

      China’s leader tells this year’s gathering that the emerging-markets bloc must accelerate pace of expansion

      Members of the media watch Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s address via video link during the 2023 brics
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russia offers to swap frozen assets with the west

      Western officials say they are not aware of the proposal and that no talks are taking place

      Vladimir Putin
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russia fires ‘General Armageddon’ in Wagner crackdown

      Sergei Surovikin, who was close to the militia’s leader, dismissed as head of military’s aerospace forces

      Sergei Surovikin
    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      Russian economy
      Putin plans meeting on Russian currency controls after rouble’s slide

      Session called after central bank rate rise fails to halt currency’s decline

      Russian president Vladimir Putin
    • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
      Russian economy
      Russia raises interest rates to halt collapse in rouble

      Central bank lifts key rate to 12% as jitters grow over the economy and currency’s weaknesses

      A red dot-matrix board displays the rates as a cyclist goes past
    • Monday, 14 August, 2023
      Russian economy
      Russian central bank to hold emergency rate meeting as rouble flounders

      Policymakers at odds over how to deal with economic fallout from invasion of Ukraine

      A girl walks past Russia’s central bank
    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Yandex co-founder condemns ‘barbaric’ war in Ukraine

      Arkady Volozh breaks silence to become one of the few Russian businessmen to speak out against invasion

      Arkady Volozh,
    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      Yevgeny Prigozhin
      Wagner boss Prigozhin appears on sidelines of Russia-Africa summit

      Paramilitary group’s founder has continually been seen at events in Russia despite supposedly agreeing exile in Belarus

      Yevgeny Prigozhin shaking hands with Freddy Mapouka
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