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Editor, Bloomberg News, focusing on Russia, economics and government. Also a bit of the Middle East. Dubai based. Formerly EEU and DC. Standard caveat.
New approaches to research on security, politics, economics, and society in Russia & Eurasia. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of George Washington University
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• Political scientist & Assoc Prof at Methodology, LSE
• identity & citizenship
• Moldova & Crimea 🇲🇩🇺🇦
• methodology & research ethics
Amnesty International Researcher | Only personal opinions here
Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. Researching and teaching on Russian politics and security, and gender and conflict. Expect cat photos.
New York Times reporter, covering logistics/supply chains and the companies and people in those industries. Got any tips? Send to my Signal ( @peteavis.08 ) or use this link:
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"IT'S NOT LIGUE 1, BRO." - VvD
Senior Ukraine Analyst @crisisgroup.org, former correspondent based in Berlin and Moscow, author of @columbiaup.bsky.social book on why Russia invaded Ukraine, soon in paperback. Rarely seen on social media.
An academic turned entrepreneur. Co-founder of Textok, currently located in Tartu, Estonia.
Korrespondent für Russland, Kaukasus, Zentralasien, Belarus bei Schweizer Radio SRF. Tbilissi/Moskau. Aberdeen FC
America in the world, past and present / Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program, @carnegieendowment.org / Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School / Historian and author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy / Views my own, obviously
Geoeconomics @ecfr.eu • Visiting prof @collegeofeurope.bsky.social
Columnist @foreignpolicy.com • Author, Backfire @columbiaup.bsky.social • Advisor, French MFA
Global economy, trade wars, economic statecraft
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all about Russian politics | 'Faridaily' newsletter on Substack | Faridaily24 channel on Telegram | ex-BBC Russian, Meduza etc.
The European Endowment for Democracy (EED) supports citizens striving for democracy in the Eastern Partnership, Middle East, North Africa, Western Balkans, Turkey and beyond.
www.democracyendowment.eu
journalist
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par solidaritāti, taisnīgumu un cilvēktiesībām ikvienam Latvijā un pasaulē 🌈
Citizenship / Justice / Rule of Law
author of "Citizenship" MIT Press https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262537797/citizenship/
🇭🇺🇦🇹🇪🇺CEU Democracy Institute
https://people.ceu.edu/dimitry-vladimirovich_kochenov
Psy. Ψ. Magna Carta. EU. AI.
Journalist investigating Central Europe 🇭🇺🇵🇱🇸🇰🇨🇿 at VSquare.org and Direkt36.hu. Corruption, illiberalism, 🇷🇺 and 🇨🇳 meddling.
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Journo. martin.aagard@etc.se
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Päätoimittaja / Editor-in-Chief at the Finnish News Agency STT Kuva: Vesa Moilanen / Lehtikuva.
Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc
Entrepreneur. Previously HouseTrip (sold to TripAdvisor), now https://MeAndQi.com
In-depth, independent reporting to better understand the world, now on Bluesky. News tips? Share them here: http://nyti.ms/2FVHq9v
Democracy Skies in Blueness
Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/
moscow bureau chief @financial times. in soviet russia, news reports you: max.seddon@ft.com
Feminist activist. Working on women's rights, peace, justice, civil society in post-Soviet Eurasia while harboring grave doubts about how this work is done. Non-resident fellow @quincyinst.bsky.social.
The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft works to build a world where peace is the norm and war is the exception.
FT columnist. Also have podcast. Author of three and a half books. Four kids. Two cats. One wife. Numerous friends. Fulham fan.
Official English page of Ukrainian media outlet "Ukrainska Pravda"
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/
Visual Investigations Journalist at @Reuters.com, via Hanoi, Seoul, Pyongyang and cyberspace. Now in London.
“A bum who wrote an ignominious jumble of stories”
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journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. trans guy, he/him.
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Russia & Economics
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German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP Berlin)
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Wall Street Journal correspondent based in Berlin | Bulgarian abroad | georgi.kantchev@wsj.com |
Brussels Bureau Chief, Financial Times.
Past lives in Moscow, Warsaw, London, Delhi and Mumbai.
Get in touch henry.foy@ft.com
https://www.ft.com/henry-foy
BBC Russia Editor, Moscow
Open Caucasus Media — the Caucasus with depth. News, commentary, and multimedia from the North and South Caucasus.
White House correspondent @washingtonpost.com.
Defending human rights now & preserving the memory of 20th-century Soviet repressions since 1989.
2022 Nobel Peace Prize winner
Политик, историк, публицист, бывший з/к / Russian opposition politician, historian, author, former prisoner
Independent news from Russia. Investigative reporting, courtroom live-blogging, digital censorship coverage (now censored in Russia)
https://en.zona.media/
Seva Gunitsky, associate professor of political science, University of Toronto. http://individual.utoronto.ca/seva/. book: http://amzn.to/2oRD2yG. substack: https://hegemon.substack.com/
Writer, journalist, amateur linguist. DEATH IS OUR BUSINESS out with Bloomsbury March 2025. BEGINNER’S CHECHEN out with Hippocrene
https://www.johnlechnerauthor.com/
Personal acct. Conflict finance, guns, crime in data/PAI . I tweet on E. Europe, E. Africa, civil wars, and black metal.
News product at Bloomberg. Before that, was in Moscow for 15 years with @bloomberg.com & @themoscowtimes.com. Still one eye on Russia. Chess fan. Views are mine
Chief Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times. 16 years living and reporting in Ukraine. https://www.ft.com/christopher-miller
Author of the book, THE WAR CAME TO US, published by Bloomsbury: https://www.amazon.com/dp/139940685X
Geopolitics, Russia, China, Cyber
Chairman @silverado.org
Author of WorldOnTheBrink.com
Host GeopoliticsDecanted.com podcast
Founder Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS
Co-Founder CrowdStrike
@DAlperovitch elsewhere
POLITICO Europe senior policy editor in charge of defense and mobility. Proud Canadian. Cruising between Warsaw and Brussels. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo21778900.html Love bikes
Photojournalist represented by ZUMA Press. Documentary photographer with eye on social issues, ecology, human rights, the act of protest.
(he/they)
https://romankoziel.myportfolio.com/
https://www.instagram.com/roman__koziel/
Chief of Staff Foreign Affairs and Security of 🇧🇪 PM De Wever - Former Ambassador to 🇨🇭 and 🇱🇮, PermRep to NATO, Defense Policy Director, OSCE - Tweets my own - RT≠endorsement - copyright on own images
Russia watcher supreme. @meduza.io English-language managing editor. Ugly American based in Portland, Oregon. Signal: @KevinRothrock.01 / Find all my junk here: https://linktr.ee/kevinrothrock
Consultant. Recovering national security journalist.
Ex @occrp.bsky.social, @justsecurity.org, @foreignpolicy.com, and more.
Bylines also in places like @slate.bsky.social, @bostonglobe.com, etc.
Assistant Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School. Author of “Popular Dictatorships” @cambridgeup.bsky.social. All views are my own and not USG/DoD policy.
Website: aleksandarmatovski.com
Reuters journalist
I mostly do investigative reporting on the Russian war in Ukraine. If you have a tip, please email maria.tsvetkova@tr.com and we will find a secure way to communicate
Filmmaker and journalist.
Historian, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Based in Poland and Bulgaria, my work focuses on Central and Eastern European politics and history.
https://politic.edu.pl/faculty/tom-junes-ph-d/
Writer, editor
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6586173._
International development, philosophy, all the digital and AI.
Nukes, missiles, military, space, tech, music, cats, #STRATDELA and #HYPERHYPE
Author of NOT ONE INCH: AMERICA, RUSSIA, AND THE MAKING OF POST-COLD WAR STALEMATE
Foreign-language editions now in press/in print, including German: NICHT EINEN SCHRITT WEITER NACH OSTEN (Not One Step to the East), C.H. Beck, 2023
Historian of the Cold War and after. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. The author of “To Run the World.”
Digital consultant, media trainer, web developer, translator, journalist, Linux geek, DJ
Managing Editor of LSE British Politics blog. Host of The Philosopher & The News. Previously Senior Editor at the Institute of Art and Ideas and philosophy lecturer at Cambridge and Royal Holloway.
Making an audio documentary about Lovett Fort-Whiteman, the only known Black American victim of Stalin's Terror.
"Nothing of them is left over except the same ghostly objecthood—a bare gelatinous blob of undifferentiated human labor."--Marx, Capital.
Twitter refugee on Bluesky. Former journalist and current Social Media enthusiast
Здесь я высказываю свое личное мнение в качестве частного лица. Минюст РФ считает меня иностранным агентом! Political analyst and commentator, publicist, pundit
Defence and aerospace journalist
some of us are still marxists, you know
Exposing troll farms: 🇷🇺🇺🇦 and beyond
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Journalist | Ortsmarken: Freiburg, Nowosibirsk, Frankfurt (Oder), Poznań, Hamburg, München, Moskau, Sankt Petersburg, Murmansk, Wolgograd, Tbilisi, Jerewan, Machatschkala, Kyjiw, Donezk, Odessa, Lwiw, Simferopol, Kaliningrad, Bischkek, Aşgabat, Minsk
i skate a lot. Also, ex-Meduza, ex-BBC, music journalist and wannabe software developer based in London
Главный редактор "Медиазоны" https://zona.media/ В конце концов ведь мы профессионалы
Political Scientist professor at Northwestern • Writer • Photographer
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Russian nuclear forces, nuclear arms control, disarmament, verification. Strictly personal views here.
All coordinates are at http://russianforces.org/podvig
Freelance reporter @nytimes.com Past: Jerusalem and Moscow, ex-Telegraph, AP survivor. Shortlisted for 2024 UK Press Awards Foreign Correspondent of the Year.
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