(1/4) #CentralAsia is among the world's most vulnerable regions to #climatechange. And while some countries are heavily reliant on #fossilfuels, there is potential for #renewables across this entire part of the world.
Let's take a closer look...
The jailing of Alexei Navalny’s lawyers did not come out of nowhere. But it does represent a turning point in the Kremlin’s program to destroy civil society, @storyevtime.bsky.social writes.
(1/3) What is the role of #criticalrawmaterials for the energy transition and why are the EU and other global actors so keen on getting them from Central Asian countries such as #Kazakhstan? Is this an economic opportunity? Or can we observe a new, "green" type of #extractivism?
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Wrote about Czechia legalising weed and shrooms (next year)
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Через полчаса на Вот Так буду рассказывать про протесты в LA www.youtube.com/live/vBlGPKJ...
"It's better — believe us — to name what’s happening than to look on, speechless, as your country goes to ruin." Thank you @storyevtime.bsky.social and Maria Kuznetsova for this
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
A glossary of authoritarianism: It’s deeply concerning that these terms can now be applied to political life in America. But it’s better to name what’s happening than to look on, speechless, as your country goes to ruin.
(Maria Kuznetsova & @storyevtime.bsky.social)
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Через двадцать минут на белсате буду рассказывать про Трампа, Маска и протесты в Калифорнии www.youtube.com/live/YA9ukP4...
Nightmare blunt rotation
>coastal elite liberal arts hippie
>mom is a CIA deputy director
>becomes an antifa eco-activist
>pro-palestine, deported by Israel
>does humanitarian relief in Turkey
>gets a bit too into multipolarity
>joins the Russian army, makes Nepalese & Chinese friends
>dies
Worked together with our brilliant analyst Denis Shedov to write this, a comprehensive explainer on Putin’s strangling of Crimea. ovd.info/en/2025/04/1...
A Pipe veteran walked across the pipe releasing a flock of doves. A pro-war artist performed a song with refrains such as “the pipe is a Russian word! /Pipe means pipe! / Pipe! Pipe! pipe!” There were snacks and other entertainment, people could walk through the Pipe.
Russian authorities continue weaponising cringe. Y’all recall that time Russian soldiers snuck behind Ukrainian lines through a gas pipe? In march they opened an exhibition dedicated to The Pipe in Yekaterinburg, in front of the church built on the Nicholas II execution spot.
both irksome and funny to watch someone, who’d built his career on dehumanizing Russians struggling against authoritarianism as an entirely fascist nation, flee his country at the slightest hint of trouble w/out the sacrifice he and supporters expect from everyone but themselves
My latest for @ForeignPolicy where I draw on @ovdinfo_en expertise to explain how Putin is strengthening his repression.
Действительно, а что случилось-то
Wtf is this show
So when are we going to see various decolonial activists & queer dissidents having to reinvent themselves into fascists as they seek to get funding from whatever Trump replaces radio liberty with?
Iran had mass protests, nearly a revolution, over egg prices increase and Americans are still straight chilling? Which one is the democracy again?
Looks like it’s goodbye to Wilson Center & Kennan Institute. Meaning, the whatever meagre expertise on ex-USSR the US did have is now being burnt to zero. Will whatever is left of area studies field in the US be fully tied to business interests of commercial backers?
At this point we know of at least 3 of our ridl.io
authors being prosecuted for working with us under the "undesirable organization" law.
В 17:00 CET буду в эфире Вот Так рассказывать про Америку, Трампа и наш подкаст, не пропустите трансляцию ютубе!
I’ve been covering ex-Soviet countries for a decade & let me tell you: arresting a student, revoking his residency status, refusing to talk to his lawyer — all because he dared to protest a war… yeah this is Kremlin playbook. The US is barreling towards authoritarianism
More book-related stuff - trying to summarise here in very very general terms what the book is about: "What should ordinary people do with their feelings of despair and helplessness in the face of naked power grabs by cynical figures? This is the question many civic-minded Russians face."
OVD-Info now publishes guest analysis in English — happy to say that our inaugural piece is by the inimitable @jeremymorris.bsky.social in which he draws on the lessons from his upcoming book to explain the micropolitics of Russian resistance
Tbf Sikorski was never too shy to thank the USA, even when he wasn’t supposed to
(the sc is of soon-deleted tweet celebrating NordStream II explosion)
Vance feigning outrage over pro-Ukrainians allegedly scaring his toddler shows how they’re trying to transform the image of Ukraine protesters into the same niche as Palestine / antifa / etc protesters. No longer white, dignified — now painted as annoying, unreasonable, dangerous
Thanks to Mark for the generous endorsement of my book here - towards the end of this podcast.
