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Alec Russell

Foreign Editor

Alec Russell is the FT's foreign editor, responsible for overseeing our network of foreign correspondents and our coverage of great global themes. He was the editor of FT Weekend from 2016-2023. During his tenure, it won a series of awards including European weekend newspaper of the year and UK weekend newspaper of the year. He also launched the FTWeekend festival in London and then in Washington.

He was previously the FT’s news editor and also the opinion editor. A long-time former foreign correspondent, he has reported from Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Washington, winning a number of awards. He has written three books. The latest is After Mandela: the battle for the soul of South Africa.

Email Alec Russell @alecurussell  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Truth, lies and the betrayal of Ukraine

    The Trump administration’s falsehoods over the war are doing profound damage to America’s global standing

    US President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Convoy — a survivor relives Rwanda’s genocide

    Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s harrowing memoir on escaping the atrocity is also a broader meditation on memory

    A procession of people walking down a country road in Africa carrying their possessions in bags and sacks, many of them on their heads
  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    InterviewSemiconductors
    Malaysia to crack down on Nvidia chip flows under US pressure

    Trade minister says Washington suspects high-end semiconductors are making it to China despite trade controls

    An Nvidia graphic processing unit
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Indian foreign minister S Jaishankar: ‘The virtues of the old world order are exaggerated’

    The politician on his country’s enduring bond with Russia, dealing with a transactional Trump and the merits of unpredictability

    A watercolour illustration of a smiling, white-bearded man with silver hair, wearing a jacket and shirt against the backdrop of an elegant restaurant
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Modi’s tariff tap dance with Trump

    US president’s ultimatum has pushed New Delhi towards a broader realignment on trade

  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    Indian business & finance
    Transcript: Modi’s tariff tap dance with Trump

    Marc Filippino talks to Alec Russell and John Reed

  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    The Big Read
    What if Ukraine decides to fight on without America?

    Although Kyiv has agreed to a potential ceasefire, most people in the country expect the war to continue and retain the will to keep battling

    Ukrainian soldiers prepare for an assault in the eastern Donetsk region
  • Saturday, 1 March, 2025
    Life & Arts
    Ukraine’s double agony — Putin and now Trump

    The country is torn over whether it could keep fighting without American support. Alec Russell reports from Kyiv on the stresses of a nation under siege

    A boy stands with the Ukraine flag wrapped around his shoulders
  • Wednesday, 26 February, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine agrees minerals deal with US

    Kyiv hopes agreement on jointly exploring resources will improve relations with Trump administration

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy 9(eft) and Donald Trump
  • Monday, 24 February, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    Is Europe about to soar? Premium content

    The future of the world might depend on its success

    A man walks through the underground connection between the German parliament ‘Reichstag’ building and the Paul Loebe House
  • Thursday, 23 January, 2025
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Waste Land — Robert D Kaplan’s bleak diagnosis of a world in crisis

    The US commentator’s pessimistic outlook surveys China, Putin, Trump — and warns that we’re entering a new Weimar phase

    A few police officers, seen from behind, with ‘polizei’ on their backs, restraining a small crowd of demonstrators shouting and making violent hand gestures
  • Monday, 20 January, 2025
    InterviewMalaysia
    Global trade will survive ‘initial shock’ of Trump’s rule, says Malaysia PM

    Anwar Ibrahim argues that the US has lost ground to China in south-east Asia

  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Global InsightRomania
    Romania’s second revolution

    An ultranationalist who has praised Putin has upended the post-communist order and is on the brink of power

    People protest in the front of the Palace of the Parliament at the Victory square in Bucharest, Romania
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Trump may be right about Ukraine’s endgame

    If they play their cards well, leaders across Europe can exert leverage on America over how to end the war

    Illustration of two black silhouettes of Donald Trumps profile forming an hourglass in the gap between with blue sand in the top tricking through to yellow in the bottom in the colours of the Ukrainian flag
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    EU-China relations
    EU to demand technology transfers from Chinese companies

    New requirements will apply to batteries but could be expanded to other green sectors

    Chinese electric cars before they are loaded on container ships
  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    News in-depthUS presidential election 2024
    ‘Brave new world’: Trump’s victory signals end of US-led postwar order

    Election result throws multinational policymaking into disarray

    Montage of Donald Trump and a digital map of the world
  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
    The Big Read
    Trump’s foreign policy plan: embrace unpredictability

    The former president has a radical global agenda for his second term, say allies and advisers — from Ukraine and the Middle East to pressurising America’s friends and foes

    The image features Donald Trump in black and white, prominently positioned in front of a blue background with the Earth in the distance
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Commonwealth of Nations
    How the west should re-engage with the global south

    The erosion of the post-1945 world order requires the UK and its allies to define new forms of multilateralism

    South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend a family photo during the BRICS summit in Kazan
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    The Big Read
    The world according to Kamala Harris

    Critics say the vice-president is yet to clearly define her foreign policy vision. But the contours of a philosophy are starting to emerge

    Montage image of Harris, a 50 renminbi note, Israeli army tanks, building tops in Red Square and an explosion in the Middle East
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    InterviewSouth Africa
    Privatisation not a ‘swear word’, says South Africa’s deputy president

    Coalition government is seeking more foreign investment in energy, water and infrastructure

    South Africa’s deputy president Paul Mashatile at the Financial Times on October 4 2024
  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Memo from Europe: what would a Harris presidency mean? Premium content

    America’s allies want to know what her victory would change, if anything

    President Kamala Harris (L) and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz walk next to each other during a bilateral meeting at the ‘Bayerischer Hof’ hotel in February
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Geopolitics
    How autocracies endure — and end

    Strongmen rulers are not immune to a wave of incumbency fatigue spreading across the world

    Illustration of a military helicopter with the blades and rear rota drawn as a red X from a ballot paper
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    InterviewBooks
    Ukrainian author Oleksandr Mykhed: ‘We do not know how much time we have’

    The writer on his account of Putin’s invasion and why he believes that the west has for too long romanticised Russian culture

  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2024
    The Big Read
    The European country playing off the US, Russia, China and Europe

    Serbia is forging close ties with Donald Trump’s team even as it attempts to pursue a middle course in a multipolar world

    Aleksandar Vučić, the Serbian flag and ruined buildings
  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Serbia turns blind eye to its ammunition ending up in Ukraine

    Moscow-friendly Belgrade exported about €800mn of shells to western allies since 2022

    Ukrainian soldiers in Avdiivka
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