CATHEY T. WEAVER

Vladimir Sorokin’s Blue Lard and Red Pyramid — surreal Russian satire that still shocks

...As Lawton himself put it in a 2022 podcast interview: “He’s a flavour of writer, so to speak, that if you don’t know, you haven’t tasted it.” Whether this flavour will appeal is another story....

March 15, 2024

ReviewAlbums

Jane Weaver: Love In Constant Spectacle album review — psychedelia meets electro-folk meets romantic indie

...This means that keeping track of her music isn’t a straightforward trajectory....

April 3, 2024

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

Transcript

Transcript: What Putin’s victory means for Russia Premium

...Here to talk to me about that is the FT’s Courtney Weaver. Hey, Courtney. Courtney WeaverHey, Sonja....

March 19, 2024

News in-depthRussian politics

Why Russian intelligence dismissed US warnings of terror threat

...“It’s not that they didn’t think there was a threat, or weren’t looking for it, it’s that perhaps they just didn’t have the same political priority,” said Mark Galeotti, a military expert and honorary professor...

April 3, 2024

News in-depthRussian politics

Kremlin sends ‘message of fear’ to Putin’s election rivals

...But no I don’t dream of beating Putin. What for?”...

March 3, 2024

FT Magazine

Inside Russia’s nightmarish poisoning operation

...Courtney Weaver is the FT’s special correspondent for eastern Europe Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...

February 22, 2024

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Summit

Guiding business in a new global age

Russian politics

Russia jails activist as Kremlin widens crackdown on critics

...Aren’t you afraid to witness what our country is turning into?...

February 27, 2024

ObituaryAlexei Navalny

Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition activist, 1976-2024

...“The main thing in this whole trial isn’t what happens to me. Locking me up isn’t difficult,” Navalny said in court as he was sent to jail in February 2021....

February 16, 2024

News in-depthAlexei Navalny

Russians risk arrest to mourn Navalny with vigils and flowers

...“But this time I was overwhelmed and I couldn’t stay at home.” After the memorial, she felt better. “I don’t feel so timid and powerless. It’s unbearable to be alone with myself right now.”...

February 17, 2024

News in-depthAlexei Navalny

Navalny’s widow takes on the struggle against Putin

...“I don’t think she’ll give in,” the Belarusian added....

February 20, 2024

News in-depthPolitical espionage

Europe kicked out Putin’s spies. Now they’re back

...“They don’t have the capabilities many think they do,” another official said. “Sleepers work alone, don’t have much access to secret information, and have little support.”...

March 6, 2024

Polymetal International PLC

Polymetal secures $3.7bn deal to exit from Russian business

...“There wasn’t much competition,” he said. “We probably had three or four offers, only one of which was actionable.”...

February 19, 2024

News in-depthRussian politics

The anti-war candidate channelling Russians’ discontent with Putin

...“This image of those lines in the snow, you can’t delete that. You can’t unsee that. And of course there are no lines to sign up for the president.”...

January 28, 2024

HTSI

Bute Fabrics – a loom with a view

...He didn’t live to see the improvements, dying in 2021 after a short illness at the age of 62....

March 10, 2024

Western business, the Kremlin and the war

Danone’s Chechen takeover: inside a Russian expropriation

...They don’t sound like they are offended”....

December 8, 2023

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Europe

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

News in-depthRussian society

The Russians returning home from self-imposed exile

...“I don’t see anything wrong here,” he said....

October 25, 2023

Western business, the Kremlin and the war

‘Blood in the water’: How Carlsberg lost its Russian business

...“We have this risk [with our own business] but we can’t do anything about it . . ....

November 10, 2023

News in-depthRussian politics

Russian émigrés to Israel don’t look back despite war with Hamas

...“People didn’t leave because they were afraid of the war [ . . .] Russia was the one who attacked, and people didn’t want to put up with that, so they left,” Fomintsev said....

October 11, 2023

News updates from August 25: Powell addresses Jackson Hole, Instacart files for IPO

Prigozhin’s death ‘too rough’ to be Putin’s work, says Lukashenko

...“I can’t say who did it . . . But I know Putin. He is a prudent, very calm and even slow-paced person,” Lukashenko said on Friday....

August 25, 2023

News in-depthWagner Group

Wagner mastermind dies in crash alongside Prigozhin

...“He has these military bona fides that don’t exist in the same way within the organisation.”...

August 24, 2023

Margaret Heffernan

Why more executive careers should start in a parish council

...Our agenda isn’t world-beating, but that’s the point. The sole purpose of the council is to serve residents — 1,000 of them — and we answer to their interests. There aren’t any real politics....

April 15, 2024

Yevgeny Prigozhin

Plane crash was ‘too rough’ for Putin, says Lukashenko

...“I can’t say who did it . . . But I know Putin. He is a prudent, very calm and even slow-paced person,” Lukashenko said....

August 25, 2023

News in-depthYevgeny Prigozhin

‘A signal for the whole elite’: the demise of Yevgeny Prigozhin

...Things like that can’t be forgiven. Everyone understands that the response to treason will be irreversible and swift. It’s a signal for the whole elite.”...

August 23, 2023

House & Home

Radical reupholstery uncovers the history of a chair

...Most recently he has collaborated with the designer/weaver Eleanor Pritchard on the Hayshovel Chair 2024, which the pair will talk about at The Art Workers’ Guild during London Craft Week....

April 19, 2024

Transcript

The Russian Banker, Part 2: The Whistleblower

...You know, so when you start seeing very strange counterparties for midsized retail-oriented Russian bank, it just doesn’t make sense. Courtney Weaver But Teresa didn’t have the whole picture....

September 6, 2023

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