Made my debut on Serbian TV yesterday after being invited by the journalist Tanja Vujisic to appear on the independent station Insajder to discuss my book 'Leaving Russia' and the exodus of so many Russians to the Balkans. ● Interview from 19.10 insajder.net/emisije/svet...

Made my debut on Serbian TV yesterday after being invited by the journalist Tanja Vujisic to appear on the independent station Insajder to discuss my book 'Leaving Russia' and the exodus of so many Russians to the Balkans. ● Interview from 19.10 insajder.net/emisije/svet...

Pirlo has finally found a midfield with no opposition.

Alexander Galitsky, a Russian tech pioneer recently branded as an "extremist," has fled the country on a Dutch passport via Belarus and taken billions with him: TASS Agency ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/05/26/g...

Mood in Russia turns against Putin, according to the @theguardian.com ● Possibly worth noting that it looks to me like Ksenia Sobchak, his godchild and a weather wane for Russia's political climate in Russia, has flipped sides again. And not the only one... www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Confirmation from newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta that Russia's actual inflation rate is "three times higher" than official 5.6% rate cited by Putin's Economy Ministry !

Jumped off the tram near @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social and was thrilled to see my book Leaving Russia displayed in the main window. ● It's sharing a row with Katja Howe Weimar and James Holland’s The Visionaries but nobody is knocking the brilliant Patrick Radden Keefe off the top of the tree yet!

Putin arrived in Beijing hoping for Power of Siberia 2....Xi offered him PowerPoint of Siberia 2 instead.

Kamaz, Russia's largest truck manufacturer, is launching a wave of mass layoffs due to falling demand and losses that exceeded 40 billion rubles last year. ● Mash Telegram said  500 employees lost their jobs in April, and another 1,500 in May. ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/05/20/k...

Jumped off the tram near @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social and was thrilled to see my book Leaving Russia displayed in the main window. ● It's sharing a row with Katja Howe Weimar and James Holland’s The Visionaries but nobody is knocking the brilliant Patrick Radden Keefe off the top of the tree yet!

Make sure to pre-order UNITED STATES OF OLIGARCHY, out this August from @stmartinspress.bsky.social! read.macmillan.com/lp/united-st...

I was delighted to be on @todayfm.bsky.social recently with the brilliant journo @mattcooperlastword.bsky.social to discuss my book Leaving Russia and the deeply personal trauma of leaving behind a life I had built in Moscow over 14 years.

I was delighted to be on @todayfm.bsky.social recently with the brilliant journo @mattcooperlastword.bsky.social to discuss my book Leaving Russia and the deeply personal trauma of leaving behind a life I had built in Moscow over 14 years.

A politician in Russia's State Duma called for a "rapid end" to the war in Ukraine as soon as possible due to rising economic problems. ● This is the first time someone from the stoodge-like systemic opposition in Russia has called for the war's end. ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/05/19/v...

Great to finally meet fellow Moscow corr Marc Bennetts at the @ilfdublin.bsky.social His new book Descent is wonderfully bleak, with nuggets of dark humour that somehow illuminate Russia’s incredibly grim trajectory.

Jason Corcoran very kindly called into sign Leaving Russia: How Putin Forced a Nation’s Future to Flee. An urgent, gripping book about Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, the people who left & what it means to lose not just a home, but a version of your country. Signed copies instore now!

Thanks so much Chapters for the bookish hospitality!

Popped into @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social, the longstanding mecca to the written word on Dublin's Parnell Street, to sign copies of Leaving Russia. ● We couldn’t locate many at first until a kind staff member pointed out they’d been placed at the front of the shop in the bestseller section!

Popped into @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social, the longstanding mecca to the written word on Dublin's Parnell Street, to sign copies of Leaving Russia. ● We couldn’t locate many at first until a kind staff member pointed out they’d been placed at the front of the shop in the bestseller section!

I enjoyed being on @newstalkfm.bsky.social The Hard Shoulder y'day with Shane Coleman to discuss my book Leaving Russia. 👉 Shane is interviewed in the book. He met with the elusive Viktor Kožený, the Czech tycoon who taught the Russian oligarchs how to be oligarchs! www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

Popped into the bookshop Eason in Blanchardstown over the weekend to sign a few copies of Leaving Russia and was delighted to see the staff had placed it on their “Blanchardstown Recommends” display at the front of the store. 📕 It seems to be selling well online too...

Putin and a small band of dignitaries on Red Square were treated to a short video of cutting-edge Russian military equipment instead of any tanks or actual equipment. ● This is the strangest and hollowest Moscow Victory Day yet. #may9

Moscow's Airspace Shutdown: ● "There's no hope of getting a flight." ● Nearly 3,000 flights have been delayed or canceled at Moscow airports since the beginning of the week as Putin gears up nervously for Victory Day parade tomorrow. ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/05/08/n...

Great to be back on @newstalkfm.bsky.social Breakfast Business with my pal @joeblynam.bsky.social to talk about my book, Russian economy and the exodus of its best and brightest talent now helping to build Banco Plata and @nebius.bsky.social far from home. www.newstalk.com/podcasts/bre...

I was just in Hodges Figgis to sign the shop's remaining 18 copies of Leaving Russia and was shocked to see my book is currently the No. 2 bestseller ! ● Grateful to all of the readers and staff at Hodges Figgis, a wonderful emporium to the written word and the third oldest bookshop in world.

Full video of my interview y'day with Ireland AM about my book Leaving Russia is now up on YouTube. Thanks to Muireann, Tommy and the producers for having me on and the excellent questions. m.youtube.com/watch?v=aIwA...

Great to be up with the birds live on @virginmediatv.bsky.social Ireland AM to discuss my book Leaving Russia with Tommy Bowe and Muireann O’Connell. ● We discussed the book, Putin's Victory Day and having tea with a Putin ally accused of poisoning a defector with polonium. Shades of Mrs Doyle!

I was just in Hodges Figgis to sign the shop's remaining 18 copies of Leaving Russia and was shocked to see my book is currently the No. 2 bestseller ! ● Grateful to all of the readers and staff at Hodges Figgis, a wonderful emporium to the written word and the third oldest bookshop in world.

Thanks to @bookstationeire.bsky.social chain for flagging Leaving Russia as a bestseller after our launch and media blitz last week.

Great to be up with the birds live on @virginmediatv.bsky.social Ireland AM to discuss my book Leaving Russia with Tommy Bowe and Muireann O’Connell. ● We discussed the book, Putin's Victory Day and having tea with a Putin ally accused of poisoning a defector with polonium. Shades of Mrs Doyle!

Posting some media from last week's launch of my book Leaving Russia, including this interview in London with @thetimes.com Radio and the excellent Hugo Rifkind. Full interview: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsfx...

Thanks to @bookstationeire.bsky.social chain for flagging Leaving Russia as a bestseller after our launch and media blitz last week.

#Zelensky warns that "a sea" of Ukrainian drones could rain on Putin's Victory Day parade in Moscow on May 9. ● It's no wonder Putin is spending more time in his fortified bunker in Krasnodar and has greatly scaled back the annual parade. #may9

Alexey Navalny used to call Putin "grandpa in his bunker." It seems the Russian leader is so paranoid now he rarely leaves and fears being eliminated by his own elites using a drone.

Author Jason Corcoran on leaving Russia: ‘They were making examples of people to instil fear. And fear paralyses people’ Jason Corcoran’s new book, Leaving Russia, begins with the moment when its title took on a personal dimension. It was January 2023, a year after the invasion of Ukraine, and...

Posting some media from last week's launch of my book Leaving Russia, including this interview in London with @thetimes.com Radio and the excellent Hugo Rifkind. Full interview: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsfx...

My book Leaving Russia is finally out in the wild and seems to be selling in Ireland, the UK and beyond. ● First t photo from Easons in Dundrum shows the book in good company and was snapped by Conor O’Clery! Meanwhile an old pal told me @waterstones.bsky.social in Picadilly has sold out !

Great to be live on Times Radio in London today with host @hugorifkind.bsky.social to discuss my book Leaving Russia, which is out tomorrow April 30th in all good bookshops throughout UK, Ireland, Europe and beyond with Amazon ● Hugo's Dad even features in the chapter about oligarchs!

Enjoyed being live on the @rteradio1.bsky.social Today flagship programme earlier with the brilliant broadcaster David McCullagh to discuss my book Leaving Russia which is out in the wild from today in all good bookshops. Link: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

📢 Apologies for the near daily posts but today is launch day for my book, Leaving Russia. 📚 I think it's a cracking read but don't take my word. I've been fortunate to receive some endorsements from much more established authors in the field Bill Browder, Edward Lucas, Casey Michel and Conor O'Clery

Enjoyed being live on the @rteradio1.bsky.social Today flagship programme earlier with the brilliant broadcaster David McCullagh to discuss my book Leaving Russia which is out in the wild from today in all good bookshops. Link: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

📢 Apologies for the near daily posts but today is launch day for my book, Leaving Russia. 📚 I think it's a cracking read but don't take my word. I've been fortunate to receive some endorsements from much more established authors in the field Bill Browder, Edward Lucas, Casey Michel and Conor O'Clery

Great to be live on Times Radio in London today with host @hugorifkind.bsky.social to discuss my book Leaving Russia, which is out tomorrow April 30th in all good bookshops throughout UK, Ireland, Europe and beyond with Amazon ● Hugo's Dad even features in the chapter about oligarchs!

This has never happened in modern Russian history." ● Putin's Central Banker Elvira Nabiullina declared an unprecedented labor shortage in the economy caused by driven by an exodus of 1.5m people and 1.3m in the meat grinder. @MoscowTimes_ru ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/04/28/v...

My new book Leaving Russia, which will be launched on Thursday, explores how those who flee Putin’s regime are branded traitors at home - and often shunned in the West.  ●Many thanks to Donal Lynch from the @Independent_ie for the interview www.independent.ie/life/author-...

I was playing Jenga with my young son in Dublin when I received a threat from Moscow -- My weekend essay about my forthcoming book, Leaving Russia, in @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Putin's first decree after the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was to limit the release of key economic data ⬇️

It's finally here. Just cracked open the first advance copies of Leaving Russia. ● Many thanks to all of you for the crucial pre-orders ahead of its release on April 30. More updates here: jasoncorcoranwrites.com

Putin, Help! Sechin, help!” — Hundreds of Chinese workers in Komsomolsk protest about unpaid wages at a #Rosneft subsidiary in Russia’s Far East. ● The lads would be much better off bleating to Comrade Xie. #OOTT

Somewhere, Aesop is busy rewriting the ending: the mouse doesn’t save the lion...it issues a press release describing the trap a strategic opportunity.