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    Alec Russell

    Foreign Editor

    Alec Russell is foreign editor. He was previously the editor of FT Weekend, FT’s news editor and also comment and analysis editor. A long time former foreign correspondent, he has reported from eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and the US, and written three books.
    Email Alec Russell @alecurussell  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)

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    • Monday, 29 May, 2023
      News in-depthMoldova
      Ukraine war opens door for Moldova to end its frozen conflict

      Russian-backed separatist enclave of Transnistria is increasingly reliant on western trade after Kyiv closed its border

    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      US plays down spat with South Africa over arms to Russia claim

      Washington signals dispute will be addressed privately to preserve important relationship

    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      Geopolitics
      This is the hour of the global south

      The war in Ukraine has turbocharged the emergence of a post-unipolar world order

    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage — the tribulations of the Mandelas

      Jonny Steinberg’s outstanding biography balances sympathy with unflinching accounts of the discord that plagued South Africa’s power couple

    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
      Lunch with the FT
      Moldova’s Maia Sandu: ‘They would like to remake the Soviet Union’

      The president on wresting her country from Russia’s influence, cleaning up corruption — and why politics hasn’t made her rich

    • Saturday, 29 April, 2023
      Travel
      Travels through Crete’s ancient history — without the crowds

      Spring is the perfect season to take in the island’s mountains, museums and fabled monuments

    • Wednesday, 5 April, 2023
      FT Books Essay
      The long shadow of apartheid

      Two compelling books analyse the precarious birth of South African democracy and the continuing struggle to overcome the legacy of division

    • Saturday, 11 February, 2023
      InterviewDemocratic Party US
      Jim Clyburn says he sees ‘no reason’ for Biden to step aside in 2024

      Influential South Carolina Democrat dismissed concerns about the president’s age

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      Lunch with the FT
      Rugby superstar Siya Kolisi: ‘I’ve got no ego at all’

      The first black captain of the Springboks on winning the Rugby World Cup, the art of leadership — and why it is vital to know what you don’t know

    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      Life & Arts
      The buffalo and the tortoise: the two faces of South Africa’s uncertain future

      A personal essay on the accelerating decline of the governing African National Congress and the chances of its losing power

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      Lunch with the FT
      Emmanuel Roman: ‘Markets are a very complicated Impressionist painting’

      The famously literary Pimco chief on generational luck in finance, where you find ideas, and the art of investing in good times — and bad times

    • Monday, 4 July, 2022
      FT GlobetrotterThe joy of tennis
      Serving for the scoop: tennis as a journalistic tool

      Hitting the courts proved a surprising source of stories for the FT Weekend editor throughout his time as a foreign correspondent

    • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
      Travel
      Three days — and 3,000 years of history — in Athens

      On a long weekend break, Alec Russell finds new galleries, restaurants and museums — and fresh calls for the return of ancient treasures 

    • Friday, 4 February, 2022
      FT Weekend’s best long reads of 2022
      Lea Ypi: ‘For me, Marx is neither a saint nor the enemy’

      The Albanian author on her family’s ordeal under Hoxha, her ‘obsession’ with freedom — and what the free market gets wrong

    • Monday, 17 January, 2022
      EU enlargement
      Albania PM says western Balkans should ‘never give up’ on EU dream

      Edi Rama aims dig at bloc’s politicians for being too influenced by nationalist pressures

    • Friday, 14 January, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Albania diary: from hermit state to haven

      It is 30 years since Alec Russell’s last visit to the country — and the welcome extended to Afghan refugees shows how far it has come since the fall of communism

    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
      FT Globetrotter
      Many happy returns: the city spaces that bring joy to our correspondents and writers

      Be it New York subway trains, a Frankfurt bakery or a Tokyo karaoke joint, these are the spots that never fail to uplift the FT’s globetrotters

    • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
      FT SeriesHow to eat and drink it this Christmas
      Our 25 favourite hotel bars

      We asked FT writers to nominate the best destinations for the perfect drink. Here are the top picks

    • Monday, 6 September, 2021
      InterviewWorld8 min
      John Major: leaving Afghanistan 'morally incomprehensible'

      Departure leaves a 'stain on the reputation of the west', says former PM

    • Tuesday, 6 April, 2021
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Rwanda’s Paul Kagame — is he just another dictator?

      Drawing on ex-regime insiders, Michela Wrong’s book challenges the idea that Kagame is an enlightened autocrat

    • Friday, 26 March, 2021
      The best of FT Weekend Spring Festival 20212 min
      Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Pandemics are no longer natural disasters, they're political failures’

      Yuval Noah Harari and FT's Alec Russell discuss the world after Covid

    • Saturday, 13 March, 2021
      UK holidays
      The castle that’s yours for the night

      A tower within the ancient walls of Bamburgh Castle is now available to rent — the perfect base for exploring Northumberland’s rich history

    • Friday, 29 January, 2021
      Life & Arts
      A time for big questions: lockdown life and late-stage communism

      The FT Weekend editor on echoes between life in London 2021 and in communist-era Romania and eastern Europe

    • Tuesday, 29 December, 2020
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Latin lessons for Team Biden

      Two books on ancient Rome offer a timely reminder of how to obtain, retain and renew power

    • Tuesday, 1 December, 2020
      FT GlobetrotterThe best of London: at home
      Recipes for success: London restaurants’ best meal kits for lockdown and beyond

      From adding the finishing touches to haute cuisine to rolling your own sushi — bring the capital’s top fine-dining to your kitchen table

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