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@stell7.bsky.social
Here mainly on Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia. Polish journalist & political analyst. Grad of University of San Diego.
@bardivarsvendsen.bsky.social
Norwegian diplomat and linguist. Currently: Deputy Chief of Mission, Norwegian Embassy to the USA 🇳🇴🇺🇸 Previously: Ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg (2020-2024); Arctic Ambassador (2018-2020); Ambassador to Azerbaijan and Georgia (2014-2018)
@glindenstrauss.bsky.social
Following #Turkey #Azerbaijan #Kurds #Greece #Cyprus and their relations with #Israel posts are my own and represent only my opinion
@smdov.bsky.social
Researcher focused on Azerbaijan, authoritarianism, nationalism. Post-structuralist, into Lacan, Laclau, Derrida, Zizek. Currently doing PhD in Political Science at Charles University in Prague.
@fairfightaction.bsky.social
Fighting for free and fair elections — in Georgia and around the nation. A joint account of Fair Fight and Fair Fight Action. FairFight.com
@laurenonel.bsky.social
PhD student in Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity at Princeton 🐯 Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians in late antique and medieval Armenia, Iran, and Syria Kenyon 2020•Uchicago Div 2022•Princeton 202?
@neilphauer.bsky.social
Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia, Chechnya), Russia, Ukraine, Syria, heavy metal. Stories @CNN, @CBC, @NYMag, @guardian etc. 🇨🇦 [email protected]. Eng/рус/հայ.
@lkhatcha.bsky.social
archaeologist at Cornell researching the ruins of genocide, Soviet modernity, and heritage forensics. Armenia & Caucasus
@lmarkarian.bsky.social
PhD in IR, Research & Policymaking, Gov of Armenia. Democratization, Security Studies, Iran. Lover of gym, beer, and coffee.
@apsap.bsky.social
University of Hong Kong and Armenian Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography collaborative fieldwork in the Vedi River valley http://www.openarchaeology.org/armenia/
@melucene.bsky.social
medievalist-archaeologist, landscape, nature, memory and materiality in Armenia and the Silk Road world, senior lecturer at Birkbeck UofL, southern us transplant and frito-pie-enjoyer
@medievalqabq.bsky.social
editor of @alusuralwusta.bsky.social historian of Umayyad & early Abbasid rule in Armenia & Caucasian Albania currently working on marriage and matriliny in the Khazar Khaganate associate prof at Columbia University
@jolaycock.bsky.social
Historian: migration, refugees, humanitarianism, South Caucasus, Armenia. Manchester.
@eu4turkmenistan.bsky.social
Official account of the Delegation of the European Union to Turkmenistan.
@stephenconlon.bsky.social
British Ambassador to Turkmenistan since 2023. Previously in Brussels (EU & NATO); Lithuania; Finland and Sweden. Views own, reposts & links ≠ endorsements.
@mayyakelova.bsky.social
Lens-based artist from Turkmenistan Member of WomenPhotograph 📍Paris, France https://mayyakelova.com/
@oldsovetlog.bsky.social
I study (agrarian) politics in the former Soviet states. Long-term policy advisor in Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Tajikistan. Resident director of 5 USAID-funded projects. Democratic institutions are hard to build and keep. Berkeley PolSci PhD eons ago.
@zpkjz-f4446.bsky.social
World Bank’s Regional Director for the Central Asia region that encompasses five countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan
@nadejdaatayeva.bsky.social
President of the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia - @AHRCA - #Kazakhstan #Kirghizistan #Tajikistan #Turkmenistan #Uzbekistan
@valgoffe.bsky.social
Travel content creator | Award-winning fiction writer | Avid reader | Happy Mom | Expat in Tashkent, Uzbekistan | Trying to explore every corner of this beautiful world | Always finding interesting stories no matter where I go www.valeriyagoffe.com
@uzbekforum.bsky.social
Defending Human Rights in Uzbekistan https://www.uzbekforum.org/
@psardor.bsky.social
Senior Research Associate @oeaw | Editor of JESHO and JCAH | Chairman of the Committee for the Study of Islam in Central Eurasia https://www.oeaw.ac.at/sice/ Author of "A Soviet Sultanate: Islam in Socialist Uzbekistan"
@frankmaracchione.bsky.social
Postdoc, Pol/IR-Uni of Kent, PhD from Pol/IR-University of Sheffield - Global Political Economy/IR, South-South norms&production, China, Central Asia, Uzbekistan. With SPERI - Sheffield Pol Economy Inst and Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs. (he/him)
@ahrca.bsky.social
We are an independent association for human rights. We tell stories and provide legal support to victims of human rights violations and unlawful persecution in Central Asia. #Kazakhstan #Kirghizistan #Tajikistan #Turkmenistan #Uzbekistan #HumanRights
@timurse3000.bsky.social
CMO. Also podcaster at Zavtracast, one of the most popular gaming & tech podcasts in Russian language. Top gaming podcast in Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, etc. https://zavtracast.ru/about-eng
@toomastirs.bsky.social
Diplomat🇪🇪 @EstonianMFA. Former 🇪🇪 ambassador to 🇧🇪Belgium, 🇱🇺Luxembourg, 🇰🇿Kazakhstan, 🇰🇬Kyrgyz Republic, 🇹🇯Tajikistan, 🇹🇲Turkmenistan, 🇺🇿Uzbekistan. New to @BSky Views are my own. Repost is not an endorsement.
@cschenk.bsky.social
Political ethnographer in Kazakhstan. Migration. State-society relations in Eurasia. Informality. Identity. Author: Why Control Immigration?
@thediplomat.com
The premier international affairs magazine for the Asia-Pacific, covering politics, defense and society from China and Kazakhstan to Myanmar and Australia. thediplomat.com
@drevilanthropology.bsky.social
My real name is Claudia Chang. I am a working retired archaeologist: landscape archaeology, pastoralism, Central Asia and Kazakhstan, world-systems analysis, gender, posthumanism, climate change, etc. #archaeology#climatechange#pastoralism
@cherylrofer.bsky.social
Retired nuclear scientist. Worked in Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Los Alamos. Posting on nuclear issues, war, nature, science, and women's issues. Also cats. She/her. Blogs at Nuclear Diner and Lawyers, Guns & Money Banner: The invincible summer within
@joannalillis.bsky.social
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)
@peerte.bsky.social
Dealing with European Foreign and Security Policy at Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation. Formerly based in Russia and Kazakhstan. All tweets are only my personal views.
@ventrescamiller.bsky.social
Bioarchaeology / Isotopes / Proteomics / Nat Geo Explorer / RPCV Kazakhstan / Assist. Prof. & Curator @UMich / Director of the Ancient Protein and Isotope Lab @umichlsa /co-founder of @SteppeSistersNt / Bills Mafia / Buffalonian
@kazakhpaleontology.bsky.social
Kazakh Палеонтолог. PhD student at the University of Michigan. Researcher at the Institute of Geological Sciences named after K. I. Satpaev (Almaty, Kazakhstan).
@katherineeyoung.bsky.social
Poet Laureate emerita, Arlington, VA. Translator of Akram Aylisli (fiction), Anna Starobinets (memoir), & Russian-language poets from Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine. https://katherine-young-poet.com/
@ilgaeurope.bsky.social
We work for #LGBTI equality and human rights in #Europe and #CentralAsia, together with more than 750 member organisations in 54 countries. Find out more at https://www.ilga-europe.org/
@samueljsdv.bsky.social
Director of European Neighbourhood Council | Author of Security Threats along EU’s 🇪🇺 Eastern Flanks (Palgrave: London) | #CentralAsia #Caucasus #Türkiye #MENA | Independence | Danish 🇩🇰🇪🇺 & Italian 🇮🇹🇪🇺|
@hugoesteca.bsky.social
PhD candidate at French Institute of Geopolitics / GEODE project. #Geopolitics, #cryptocurrency and #mining #Russia #CentralAsia #Kazakhstan. Working group "Digital Materialities" at CIS/CNRS : https://cis.cnrs.fr/en/digital-materialities/
@eurasianet.bsky.social
Critical perspectives and on-the-ground reporting from the #Caucasus and #CentralAsia, with analyses you won't find elsewhere: 🔗 https://eurasianet.org/
@alexslucky.bsky.social
Central Eurasian Archaeobotany PhD w/ BioArCH @ Uni of York, Prior: UCL Institute of Archaeology, Sydney Uni, Kew Science w/ The Explorers Club GB & steppesistersNt #archaeobotany #centralasia #silkroads She/Her
@openkyrgyzstan.bsky.social
@kyrgysstan.bsky.social
@tikyrgyzstan.bsky.social
Official account of Transparency International Kyrgyzstan https://linktr.ee/tikyrgyzstan
@cmuttonen.bsky.social
Vice-President of the Austrian Institute for European & Security Policy ( AIES) / Honorary Consul for Kyrgyzstan/Co-President of PNND / Former President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
@yurifenopetov.bsky.social
Deputy Head, OSCE in Kazakhstan | foreign & security policy | former Senior Political Adviser, OSCE in Kyrgyzstan; Adviser, Austrian Permanent Mission to OSCE; Desk Officer, MFA Austria; Diplomatic Academy of Vienna | mixed heritage | EN/DE/RU/FR posts
@elirakyrgyzstan.bsky.social
Dr. Elira Turdubaeva has a PhD degree in Media and Communications from Kyrgyzstan-Turkey Manas University. She worked at several universities, including a prior appointment as Department Head of Journalism and Mass Communications at American University