Sasha Slobodov
Freelance Editor, Writer, and Translator | Formerly: News Editor at Meduza in English, International Fellow at Caucasus Research Resource Center | South Caucasus, Central Asia & Russia
@martinrjay.bsky.social
Owner of maghrebi.org and Levantis.me, ex award winning journalist with big media, love dogs, lives on the edge of the sahara. The truth really is easier to remember. Patreon: https://t.co/Vpq9ghX3wf
@jonathancampion.com
Central Asia news editor | Cricket with The Metronomes | Author of 'Getting Out' 🇺🇦🏏 | Norfolk and Caucasus too. 🌏 jonathancampion.com 🏏 jonathancampion.com/cricket 📷 lifeincentralasia.picfair.com
@charleymaher.bsky.social
Social Editor at Bellingcat. Prev investigative reporter for BBC, TBIJ, Seen & many others... Professional account, working class journo. Thoughts are my own. Like discussing representation, accessibility, new tech , social impact and tackling disinfo.
@gssullivan.bsky.social
Editor, Bloomberg News, focusing on Russia, economics and government. Also a bit of the Middle East. Dubai based. Formerly EEU and DC. Standard caveat.
@doxajournal.bsky.social
Independent reportage and analysis from and on Russia. We cover everything from war and rising authoritarianism to inequality, discrimination, and the climate crisis. Subscribe to our English newsletter! https://doxaenglish.substack.com/subscribe
@howardamos.bsky.social
Author at @bloomscontinuum.bsky.social | Editor at @carnegieendowment.org | My book 'Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire' is out now! | Order here: https://linktr.ee/russiastartshere
@caci-silkroad.bsky.social
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center. Research on Central Asia, Caucasus, and Turkey (AFPC and ISDP Sweden). https://www.silkroadstudies.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 🇮🇹🇪🇺|
@melissacrt.bsky.social
Researcher and writer on women’s rights in Afghanistan Pre-order No Woman's Land: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kianahayeri/no-womans-land?ref=user_menu
@hansgutbrod.bsky.social
Interest in policy, think tanks, Caucasus, dogs, ethics. Teach at Ilia State University.
@raffiwriter.bsky.social
Staff writer, The New Yorker Fellow, The Safina Center raffikhatchadourian.com
@katypearce.bsky.social
Associate Prof @uwcomm. I study tech & inequality in 🇦🇲 & 🇦🇿. Posts research & pop culture & parenting. She/her.
@willneal.bsky.social
writer, investigative journalist | 2025 Livingston Award finalist, Amnesty Media Award shortlistee | 2024 John Schofield Trust fellow | contact via willneal.org/
@tkblauvelt.bsky.social
Scholar l International education bureaucrat l Researching and teaching Soviet and Eurasian political history l
@jolaycock.bsky.social
Historian: migration, refugees, humanitarianism, South Caucasus, Armenia. Manchester.
@gabrielgavin.bsky.social
Writing about energy, the EU and the world with POLITICO. Author ‘Ashes of our Fathers: Inside the Fall of Nagorno-Karabakh.’
@ruthdeyermond.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King's College London. Russian foreign & security policy, US foreign policy, US-Russia relations, European security. Views are my own.
@niktwick.bsky.social
Editor with @libmod.de in Berlin, responsible for @russlandverstehen.eu; Longtime Journalist and Russia watcher. Formerly with the OSCE SMM in Donetsk 🇺🇦, @dpa.com Moscow and @themoscowtimes.com 📧 [email protected]; @niktwick.69 on Signal
@ocmedia.bsky.social
Open Caucasus Media — the Caucasus with depth. News, commentary, and multimedia from the North and South Caucasus.
@togzhankassenova.bsky.social
Almaty-born, DC-based expert on nuclear politics and financial crime prevention Author of Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb (Stanford University Press, 2022) http://www.togzhankassenova.com
@martater.bsky.social
Mainly interested in the North Caucasus. Author of "La Chechenia de Kadirov. El régimen de Putin en el Cáucaso". Coauthor of "Sistema mediático y propaganda en la Rusia de Putin".
@sashaetkind.bsky.social
Professor of CEU in Vienna. A historian who teaches IR and the Anthropocene, but mostly thinks and comments about the current war. I ban, with or without warning
@tomdewaal.bsky.social
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Europe, all things Caucasus, Eastern Europe, Black Sea. Also Russian poetry.
@kailmarkvart.bsky.social
Professor, @sampol.bsky.social; Project Manager, @vdeminstitute.bsky.social; Iowan; klmarquardt.com
@nicholasmm.bsky.social
MA Student @EURUSCarletonU | Researching the Nevada-Semipalatinsk Movement | WLU BA ‘22
@dylanmp.bsky.social
Senior Manager for Eurasia Programs at the National Endowment for Democracy. Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Eurasia Center. Posting mostly about Russia.
@kristyironside.bsky.social
@mcerovic.bsky.social
Associate Professor, History, CERCEC - EHESS (Paris) / Russian empire, Soviet Union, war history, borderlands, military occupations, partisan warfare, Soviet-Nazi war
@irgarner.bsky.social
Russian Prof @ Pilecki Institute, Warsaw/Fellow @ Centre for International and Defence Policy, Ontario | FrHistS | Author of "Z Generation: Russia's Fascist Youth” - get it @ http://linktr.ee/igarner | 🇨🇦
@media.elizaveta.no
multimedia journo for @thebarentsobserver.com, wife of @rhewlif.xyz, filmmaker turned adventure enthusiast based in 🇳🇴, ex-BBC World News, urban gardener, pet lover, Moscow native, media.elizaveta.no
@mikeeckel.bsky.social
Opponent of Quiet Desperation. Contains Multitudes. In Search Of Meanness Or Sublimity. Former Moscow Correspondent. Vladivostok Fanboy. @RFERL
@kincha.bsky.social
Journalist quietly eyeing a research gig (PhD/think tank). Interests: extremism, nationalism, gender & queer politics, CE Europe, media. Longest-running video editing beginner. Views mine. Contact: shotakincha[at]icloud.com https://shotakincha.tumblr.com
@jamesmiller.bsky.social
The Casual Analyst: https://www.thecasualanalyst.com/ Expert on pro-democracy movements & the fight against autocrats in Ukraine, Russia, Syria & beyond. Liveblogging & OSINT pioneer, Twitter OG turned refugee (Millermena). Trying to save my own Republic
@sonjaschiffers.bsky.social
Director of @boell.de South Caucasus Office, based in Tbilisi. German & EU foreign policy | Wider Europe | democracy & autocracy | peace & security | feminism. PhD from FU Berlin. FirstGen. All views personal.
@edwardschatz.bsky.social
Central Asianist, Political Scientist, University of Toronto Posting mostly about politics and society in Central Asia.
@abbyscripka.bsky.social
chinese-lithuanian american-thai studying tengrism in central asia phd zzf potsdam + ceu comp his researching in kazakh and sometimes russian 📍Berlin + Central Asia
@levitanus.bsky.social
Central Asian Researcher, Psychotherapist, Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Queer narratives in Central Asia, LGBTQ+ migration. She/her
@ido.bsky.social
Journalist in Berlin focusing on all things Europe. Previously at the BBC and New Statesman. http://idovock.com 🇺🇦
@marinaohan.bsky.social
Clingendael Institute | Russia, Eastern Europe & South Caucasus | geopolitics | human rights | democracy | politieke junkie | opinions my own
@bdtaylor-su.bsky.social
Professor @SUpolisci and Director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Maxwell School, Syracuse University. New book: Russian Politics: A Very Short Introduction. http://amzn.to/3gdhiFe
@seva.bsky.social
Seva Gunitsky, associate professor of political science, University of Toronto. http://individual.utoronto.ca/seva/. book: http://amzn.to/2oRD2yG
@bellingcat.com
Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research. Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
@lkrozen.bsky.social
Reporting on foreign policy. Current: https://diplomatic.substack.com Just Security ed board. Al Monitor, Politico, Foreign Policy alum.