Joanna Lillis
Almaty-based journalist reporting on Central Asia, author of Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan (2019) and Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan (out in November 2025)
@asiacitalia.bsky.social
ASIAC is an academic association based in Italy that promotes knowledge exchange on Central Asia and the Caucasus. (RT/likes are not endorsements). Website and newsletter: https://www.asiac.net/
@bakhrom.bsky.social
- From Central Asia (Uzbekistan) - Just an ordinary person, who is interested in policymaking and AI
@tomburgis.bsky.social
Investigations correspondent for The Guardian. Bestselling author of Kleptopia, Cuckooland and The Looting Machine. The truth will out, it just sometimes takes a while. Stories: theguardian.com/profile/tom-burgis Books: tomburgis.com
@irinauz.bsky.social
Gender expert, journalist from #Uzbekistan, Central Asia. Change maker ✊ #Chevening Alumni (LSE). Feminist activist and founder of Nemolchi.uz
@balalaichnitsa.bsky.social
Brit abroad | historian and fiction writer | NA | Asst Prof @ IUBloomington | Tweets #EarlyModern #Russia #GlobalHistory #MentalHealth | she/her
@wjdegraaf.bsky.social
ChristenUnie Europa🇪🇺 | Hollander in Brabant | IR MGIMO🇷🇺 & IL TiU🇳🇱 | Слава Україні🇺🇦 | Soft spot for 🇰🇿
@valheru.bsky.social
#Motosky Blogger/YouTuber who's well and truly in love with #motorcycles, cheese & vinyl. #shrimp weirdo and Alpha Legion operative. https://linktr.ee/ValheruRides
@calummackenzie.bsky.social
Korrespondent für Russland, Kaukasus, Zentralasien, Belarus bei Schweizer Radio SRF. Tbilisi/Moskau
@lorilk.bsky.social
working towards balance in an out-of-balance world. fan of democracy here & abroad. lover of international news. owned by Tabitha the cat. proud Pittsburgher. she/her
@shafikmeghji.bsky.social
Journalist, travel writer, author 📖 Small Earthquakes (pre-order ⬇️), Crossed Off the Map ✍🏽 BBC Travel, National Geographic Traveller, Wanderlust, Lonely Planet, DK, Geographical 🌎 Latin America / Ex-porteño https://linktr.ee/ShafikMeghji
@meganeaves.com
Travel & nature writer. Editor of Nightscape @darkskyintl.bsky.social. New Mexican-Brit. Ex-Lonely Planet. China, Central Asia, Southwest US. Desert witch on a rainy island. ✍️ a book on darkness. Agent: Jack Fogg she/her meganeaves.com 📍SE London
@binaziry.bsky.social
@david-obrien.bsky.social
"We are a primitive people," confessed a third emigrant, "wandering widely in a strange land." History grad student - @SalemState MA
@naveed360.bsky.social
Security Policy Analyst. Journalist. Academic. [. . . in the trenches . . .]
@tlamanauskas.bsky.social
Deputy Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union
@rprose.bsky.social
News product at Bloomberg. Before that, was in Moscow for 15 years with @bloomberg.com & @themoscowtimes.com. Mostly Russia news & chess. Views are mine
@standardcandles.bsky.social
@thomashazell.bsky.social
DPhil/PhD in Politics @ Oxford. Authoritarianism, bureaucracy, and local politics + Kazakhstan + computational social science. https://t-hazell.github.io/.
@atifajiwa.bsky.social
Commissioning Editor for Politics, Current Affairs & International Relations at Bloomsbury. Durham & St Andrews Grad. Email me: atifa.jiwa@bloomsbury.com
@cequirk.bsky.social
Opinion research and advocacy/political strategy in declining democracies and emerging autocracies. Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answers to. Nice, FR quirkglobalstrategies.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinequirk/
@suelinwong.bsky.social
Host of "Scam Inc", a podcast series about the global rise of online scams & South-East Asia correspondent at The Economist. Before that, in China and host of "The Prince", a podcast series about China's leader Xi Jinping
@ericamarat.bsky.social
Professor. Opinions are my personal. Posting as a private citizen. Do not represent any institution or group.
@chrussiaeurasia.bsky.social
The Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House. Policy research and discussion on Russia, the Eastern Partnership states and Central Asia. Website: https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-departments/russia-and-eurasia-programme
@syinats.bsky.social
Central Asia Researcher @HRW.org [Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan]; PhD (#nomadityofbeing); Writer [sci-fi]. Opinions are my own.
@agathe-bigueguy.bsky.social
PhD student in #anthropology working on #halal in Central Asia #Kazakhstan Also interested in #familyhistory of #Chechens and Ingush in Europe
@jaketurk1971.bsky.social
Surviving the Turd Reich. Remember due process? Wasn't that shit AWESOME? Oh well. Half the country finds politics "boring", so they elected a barely literate TV star to "shake things up." He handed the keys to the most thin-skinned sumbitch alive.
@ceebankwatch.bsky.social
We’re a network of green groups making international public finance 💶 work for people and the planet 🌎💚 www.bankwatch.org
@nargiskassenova.bsky.social
A Central Asian/Central Asianist currently living in Cambridge, MA.
@uzbekforum.bsky.social
Defending Human Rights in Uzbekistan https://www.uzbekforum.org/
@will-smiley.bsky.social
History (Ottoman and Russian Empires) and international law. Author, "From Slaves to Prisoners of War" (Oxford, 2018) and co-author, "To Save the Country" (Yale, 2019). All views strictly my own.
@qazaqnuclear.bsky.social
Атомдық Соғысқа Қарсы Алда тұрған Қазақ (АСҚАҚ) Коалициясы 1-15.03 күндері БҰҰ Штаб-пәтері, АҚШ-та болады 🇰🇿 United coalition of Qazaq nuclear frontline communities and their allies. Join our events & follow us at the TPNW3MSP.
@yerdaulet.bsky.social
Founder & CEO at JASA • Co-Founder of @qazaqnuclear.bsky.social • Emerging Security and Sustainability Professional • Nuclear Affairs, AI Governance + Policy, and Energy Transition • Peace and Justice
@infoshymkent.bsky.social
A passionate 🇰🇿-🇩🇪 traveler couple is bringing #CentralAsia closer to you. All photos & texts are ours - unless otherwise stated. Our online magazine: www.shymkent.info
@thepamirarchive.bsky.social
The Pamir Archive: Largest archive in private hands of maps, postcards, books and photos about Central Asia. Worlds largest digital collection of maps and text. https://independent.academia.edu/MarkusHauser
@annakarjalainen.bsky.social
British Swede 🇬🇧🍠 💙🌻 Studies in Post-Soviet Eurasia, fighting dis/mis-info. Try to limit myself to Baltics and Central Asia. Uppsala Uni. Moomin mad! Also on Twitter for now.
@cschenk.bsky.social
Political ethnographer in Kazakhstan. Migration. State-society relations in Eurasia. Informality. Identity. Author: Why Control Immigration?
@mccallumn.bsky.social
Translator/Analyst| Bordeaux to Beijing| #Eurasia| #Masculinities| (Feminist) #Security| Gymnast| Black Belt| @suttontrust ALB| 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🇨🇿
@neilphauer.bsky.social
Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia, Chechnya), Russia, Ukraine, Syria, heavy metal. Stories @CNN, @CBC, @NYMag, @guardian etc. 🇨🇦 neil.hauer@gmail.com. Eng/рус/հայ.
@laurencedefranoux.bsky.social
👱♀️ Journaliste Libération 📰 Suit la #défense. Membre de l'Association des journalistes de défense @ajdpresse.bsky.social, auditrice @IHEDN 📚 ''Les Ouïghours, histoire d'un peuple sacrifié'', Tallandier (nouvelle édition en poche, janvier 2025)
@songsforhorses.com
Cultural anthropologist and literary translator from NC Blue Ridge. Music and Animals. Монголоор ярьна. He/Him. On the web at songsforhorses.com What's time to a hog?