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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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    • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
      Alexei Navalny
      Russian officials release Alexei Navalny’s body to his mother

      Decision ends week-long stand-off after death of leading opposition activist

    • Friday, 23 February, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      Biden issues new sanctions against Russia in response to Navalny death

      Measures on eve of second anniversary of Ukraine invasion target war effort and attempts to get round oil cap rules

    • Friday, 23 February, 2024
      Person in the News
      Yulia Navalnaya, Russia’s new opposition leader

      Following the death of Alexei Navalny, she has assumed her husband’s mantle — at considerable personal risk

      Joe Cummings illustration of Person in the News Yulia Navalnaya
    • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
      News in-depthRussian politics
      Western governments urged to swap spies for Russia’s political prisoners

      Jailed opposition activists fear they will be killed by Vladimir Putin’s regime

      Vladimir Putin and Alexei Navalny
    • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
      Alexei Navalny
      Kremlin threatens to let Navalny’s body rot unless he is buried in secret, says family

      Opposition activist’s mother says she has been told she cannot have a funeral

      Lyudmila Navalnaya speaks about her son
    • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      Kyiv has right to strike Russian targets ‘outside Ukraine’, says Nato chief

      Jens Stoltenberg lays out Ukrainian right to defend itself including by extraterritorial attacks

      Jens Stoltenberg
    • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      EU agrees first sanctions on Chinese and Indian companies for Russia war links

      Curbs on almost 200 entities aim to ‘degrade’ Moscow’s capability to attack Ukraine

      Russia’s President Vladimir Putin visiting a military plant in the Urals city of Nizhny Tagil, Russia
    • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
      Alexei Navalny
      Navalny’s mother appeals to Putin for release of her son’s body

      Lyudmila Navalnaya travelled to Arctic prison colony to plead with authorities for opposition leader’s remains

      Lyudmila Navalnaya and Alexei Tsvetkov, a lawyer of Alexei Navalny
    • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
      Russian politics
      Russia arrests US-Russian citizen on treason charges

      FSB said woman, identified by lawyers’ collective as Ksenia Khavana, organised fundraisers for Ukrainian group

      FSB headquarters in Moscow
    • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
      News in-depthAlexei Navalny
      Navalny’s widow takes on the struggle against Putin

      After two decades of shunning the limelight, Yulia Navalnaya becomes face of her late husband’s activist movement

      Yulia Navalnaya
    • Monday, 19 February, 2024
      ExplainerWar in Ukraine
      Tracking Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia in maps

      A visual guide to the war

      Montage of map of Ukraine and tanks
    • Monday, 19 February, 2024
      Alexei Navalny
      Navalny’s team accuses Kremlin of hiding activist’s body

      Russian officials refuse to disclose probable cause of death to family

      Lyudmila Navalny and family lawyers in Salekhard, Russia
    • Monday, 19 February, 2024
      FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
      What next for Russia after Navalny?

      The death of the Russian opposition leader comes just weeks before Russian elections

    • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      Biden pins blame for Russian battlefield victory on Congress inaction

      Ukraine outgunned in Avdiivka as stalled US talks on $60bn aid package for Kyiv leave it short of munitions

      Months of fierce fighting have almost destroyed the city of Avdiivka
    • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
      Russian politics
      Navalny’s allies accuse Russian authorities of trying to cover up his death

      Police arrest hundreds of people at spontaneous memorial gatherings for opposition activist who died on Friday

      A woman lays flowers at a makeshift shrine to Navalny at the Memorial to Victims of Political Repression in St Petersburg
    • Friday, 16 February, 2024
      Russia
      Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny dies in Arctic prison

      Western leaders condemn Vladimir Putin after death of his most prominent opponent

      Alexei Navalny behind bars in January last year
    • Friday, 16 February, 2024
      News in-depthAlexei Navalny
      After Navalny: ‘They will arrest the activists . . .  then everything will die out’

      Opposition figure’s death leaves Russia’s Putin with ‘absolute’ power

      Candles surround photographs during a vigil for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, outside the Russian Embassy in Riga, Latvia
    • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
      US presidential election 2024
      Putin says he prefers Biden over Trump in US election

      Comments come after US president urges Congress to back aid for Ukraine’s war effort against Russia

      Vladimir Putin
    • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
      Russia
      Russia puts Estonia’s prime minister on wanted list

      Moscow’s charges against Kaja Kallas appear to be linked to her government’s push to remove Soviet-era monuments

      Kaja Kallas
    • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
      War in Ukraine
      Russia to double military presence along Nato border, Estonia warns

      Intelligence says Moscow will beef up troops near Finland and Baltic states as it prepares for future conflict

      In this photo released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on July 22 2022, Russian soldiers fire a 2S4 Tyulpan self-propelled heavy mortar from their position at an undisclosed location in Ukraine
    • Friday, 9 February, 2024
      Russian politics
      Putin hints at swapping US reporter Gershkovich for Russian assassin

      Wall Street Journal journalist has been held in Moscow for almost one year

      Evan Gershkovich in a Moscow court
    • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
      Geopolitics
      Xi and Putin reject US ‘interference’ and pledge industrial co-operation

      Chinese and Russian leaders discuss Taiwan and Ukraine in conversation that underscores determination to counter US

      Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing
    • Monday, 5 February, 2024
      Yandex NV
      Search engine Yandex to sell Russian operations for $5bn

      Sale of ‘Russia’s Google’ is largest by a western-held company seeking to exit the country since Ukraine war began

      A man walks outside the headquarters of Yandex in Moscow
    • Friday, 2 February, 2024
      FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: economy and trade
      The surprising resilience of the Russian economy

      Heavy public spending on defence has led to a rebound in growth but could also be storing up problems for the near future

    • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
      Russian economy
      IMF raises Russia growth outlook as war boosts economy

      New 2024 forecast of 2.6% rise doubles previous prediction and prompts questions over sanctions against Moscow

      The Kremlin
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