He has been the Moscow correspondent for the Boston-based daily The Christian Science Monitor and for the monthly Chicago magazine In These Times.
[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.
[3] Weir studied Russian and Soviet history at the University of Toronto as well as graduating from teacher's college.