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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, 2 February, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Ukrainian troops to start training on Leopard 2 tanks next week

      Six-week programme is part of European nations’ pledge to rapidly deploy vehicles to Kyiv

    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
      Nuclear proliferation
      Russia denies US allegations it is violating New Start nuclear treaty

      Moscow says western support for Ukraine has ‘destroyed legal framework for arms control and security’

    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
      Nuclear proliferation
      US says Russia is not complying with New Start nuclear arms treaty

      Washington accuses Moscow of blocking inspections and missing compliance meetings

    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      Goldman Sachs Group
      Goldman transferred privately held Russian assets to former employees

      Western banks are exiting the country following the invasion of Ukraine

    • Sunday, 29 January, 2023
      Russian economy
      Russia’s internal struggle over classified financial data

      The Kremlin has justified withholding statistics during wartime but country’s central bank governor is pushing back

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russia admits Putin pardoning convicts so they can join Wagner in Ukraine

      Kremlin says US ‘demonising’ paramilitary group, which is playing a key role in war against Kyiv

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russia bans largest independent news website Meduza

      Kremlin increases censorship of Ukraine war coverage with declaration of media group as ‘undesirable organisation’

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      US and Germany to send main battle tanks to Ukraine

      Ukrainians rejoice at decision while Russia describes move as ‘extremely dangerous’

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      Nuclear proliferation
      Republicans push to verify Russia’s compliance with nuclear treaty

      Moscow’s refusal to hold talks on New Start amid Ukraine war raises concerns for future arms control

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Oleg Deripaska
      Former FBI agent charged with violating sanctions by working for Deripaska

      US alleges he also assisted Russian oligarch by helping to investigate a rival

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      News in-depthArmenia-Azerbaijan conflict
      Oligarch defends role in disputed enclave as Russia struggles to retain influence

      Rival claimants to Nagorno-Karabakh suspect first minister Ruben Vardanyan of being too close to Moscow

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Wagner fighter seeks asylum after dramatic escape to Norway

      Andrei Medvedev pledges to give information on Russian paramilitary group

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      Russia demotes ‘General Armageddon’ after battlefield failures

      Valery Gerasimov replaces Sergei Surovikin, who was appointed in October as head of Ukraine campaign

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      A Moscow diary: fear, loathing and deep denial

      Champagne still flows at elite parties in the Russian capital, as cowed critics only speak openly in their own homes

    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Putin and Xi vow to deepen bilateral ties

      End-of-year video conference between the two leaders comes 11 months into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

    • Thursday, 29 December, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Year in a word: ‘Special operation’

      The term was meant to assure Russians that life was largely going on as normal

    • Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Putin warns war in Ukraine becoming ‘extremely complicated’

      Russia’s leader’s comments mark second admission this month that military operations could be protracted

    • Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
      Russian politics
      Billionaire Deripaska’s Russian hotel complex seized after court order

      Legal dispute in Sochi underscores pressure facing wealthy oligarchs since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine

    • Friday, 16 December, 2022
      The Big Read
      How Putin’s technocrats saved the economy to fight a war they opposed

      Once thought of as reformers, the president’s economic confidants have ended up as enablers of an invasion they warned against

    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      Russian business & finance
      US hits Russian oligarch Vladimir Potanin with sanctions

      Washington targets Moscow’s commodities sector with action against Norilsk Nickel chief

    • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
      The Big Read
      Russia’s wartime economy: learning to live without imports

      Rather than provoking a dramatic collapse, international sanctions are causing a steady degradation of the country’s productive capacity

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Putin threatens to cut oil output after G7 price cap

      Russian leader vows not to sell crude to countries implementing the ceiling

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      Brittney Griner
      Inside Biden’s Faustian pact with Russia to secure Brittney Griner’s release

      Deal led to exchange of notorious arms trafficker for US basketball star while not including former marine

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      LetterOne Holdings SA
      ‘Look, we’re not sanctioned’: how Holland & Barrett owner cut ties with Russian investors

      LetterOne’s chair Mervyn Davies appoints new board as it finalises separation from oligarchs

    • Wednesday, 7 December, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Putin does ‘not see need for second military draft’ for Ukraine

      Russia’s president warns nine-month invasion could become a ‘lengthy process’

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