Fred Weir is a Canadian journalist who lives in Moscow and specializes in Russian affairs. He has been the Moscow correspondent for the Boston-based daily The Christian Science Monitor and for the monthly Chicago magazine In These Times. He has been a regular contributor from Moscow to The Independent, South China Morning Post[1] and The Canadian Press.[2] He was also for 20 years the Moscow correspondent of Hindustan Times an Indian, English-language, daily newspaper based in Delhi.[2] Weir is the co-author, along with David Michael Kotz, of Revolution from Above: The Demise of the Soviet System, published in 1996, which provides a new interpretation and research for the disintegration of the USSR.[1]
Weir was a third generation red diaper baby whose uncle had trained at the Lenin School in Moscow in the 1920s to be an agent of the Comintern. Weir's father, Charles Weir, was a International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers organizer and Communist Party of Canada activist who was an election candidate under the party banner.[3] Weir studied Russian and Soviet history at the University of Toronto as well as graduating from teacher's college. He lived on a kibbutz in Israel in 1973–74, travelled extensively around the Middle East, the USSR and Eastern Europe, before choosing to move to the Soviet Union to live and work as the Moscow correspondent for the Canadian Tribune in 1986 during the early days of glasnost and perestroika. In the early 1990s he began freelancing for Canadian Press and various publications. He has been Moscow correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor since 1998.[2][4] He married Mariam Shaumian, a Russian-Armenian, in 1987. They have two children: Tanya, born in 1988, and Charlie, born in 2000.[2][5]
^ ab"Fred Weir". In These Times. Retrieved 2010-12-09.
^ abcdKotz, David Michael; Weir, Fred (1997). Revolution from above: the demise of the Soviet system. Routledge. p. x (Preface). ISBN 978-0-415-14317-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
^"Born into a family of Canadian Communists". Cold War Conversations. Audible. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
^Fred Weir (March 2019). "A Red Diaper Baby in Putin's Moscow". Walrus Magazine. Retrieved 2024-02-17.
^"Fred Weir". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
FredWeir is a Canadian journalist who lives in Moscow and specializes in Russian affairs. He has been the Moscow correspondent for the Boston-based daily...
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engineering mom leads effort to save an old-growth Russian forest, By FredWeir, Correspondent / 30 April 2012, Christian Science Monitor Russia halts...
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Vladimir Popov.]. Gordonua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 13 December 2019. FredWeir (12 February 2007). "Russia intensifies efforts to rebuild its military...
nuclear arms treaty". BBC News. 8 April 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2012. FredWeir (26 January 2011). "With Russian ratification of New START, what's next...
at Camp David, not Chicago". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 18 May 2012. FredWeir (14 May 2012). "Russians perplexed by Putin's snub of G8. Is it because...
found at Ukrainian monastery". 16 July 2002. Retrieved 23 February 2023. FredWeir (10 October 2002). "Wary of its past, Russia ignores mass grave site"...
of New Hostilities?", Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 28 March 2006. FredWeir, "Russia Struggles to Keep Its Grip on the Caucasus", The Christian Science...
"Russia's Grandfather Frost fights the invading Santas, Dec 24, 2000 by FredWeir". The Independent. London. 24 December 2000. Archived from the original...
32 (4): 369–374. doi:10.2307/40097964. JSTOR 40097964. David M. Kotz, FredWeir (1997). "Chapter 4: Glasnost and the intelligentsia". Revolution from...
December 2007. Демография Archived 25 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine FredWeir (2002). "Russia's population decline spells trouble". The Christian Science...
the fact that Russia showed signs of an aging and shrinking population. FredWeir said that this severely constricts and limits Russia's potential to re-emerge...
and the Future of the Far North. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc. FredWeir (September 16, 2013). "Russian Navy returns to Arctic. Permanently". Christian...
Wadsworth. p. 312. ISBN 978-0-534-62937-3. Russians arming themselves. By FredWeir, Hindustan Times, 12 March 1997 Banditry Threatens the New Russia. By...
Archived from the original on 19 April 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2012. FredWeir (14 September 2012). "Russian Duma expels anti-Putin lawmaker. Sign of...
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Republic. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 2 July 2021. FredWeir (12 April 2011). "Belarus seeks two in terror attack that baffles security...
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media freedom under attack: OSCE". Reuters. Retrieved 4 October 2015. FredWeir (21 September 2014). "Crackdown in Ukraine sullies its democratic aspirations"...
other son. She was writing to him to tell him about a large gator in Lake Weir that everyone had called "Gator Joe", which led to the name of the local...
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