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@mannfred.bsky.social
@nataliya-y.bsky.social
📌 Norwegian-Ukrainian sociologist & project manager navigating a cosmopolitan world 🌍 📌 Passionate advocate for democracy, human rights & social justice 🙌
@chechencenter.bsky.social
Independent Chechen social media https://thechechenpress.com/
@russianreader.bsky.social
https://therussianreader.com/ "The Russian Reader is the best source of information in English about social and labour movements in Russia." - Simon Pirani, People and Nature
@norvezhets.bsky.social
Senior Policy Adviser, Norwegian Helsinki Committee. Music, literature and universal human rights makes the world go ‘round. Oslo, Norway.
@oleksarusyn.bsky.social
@lenewett.bsky.social
Head of the Documentation and Accountability Hub of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee https://bsky.app/profile/nhcno.bsky.social - defending human rights, civil society and accountability in Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia.
@serafimaa.bsky.social
Researcher, Fridtjof Nansen Institute | Arctic governance | climate & geopolitics | sociologist by training but IR scholar in practice🌏
@ktertytchnaya.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at Oxford studying authoritarianism. https://katerinatertytchnaya.com
@fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social
The Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) is an independent foundation engaged in research on international environmental, energy and resource management politics and law. Lysaker, Oslo.
@aageb.bsky.social
Forfatter og human rights worker at @nhc_no. Siste bok, Krigsherren i Kreml; Vladimir Putin og hans tid, september 2022 (Kagge)
@luciankim.bsky.social
Senior Ukraine Analyst @crisisgroup.org, former correspondent based in Berlin and Moscow, author of new @columbiaup.bsky.social book on why Russia invaded Ukraine.
@andreykazankov.bsky.social
Ukraine and Russia correspondent at Denmark's leading weekly, Weekendavisen - ankv@weekendavisen.dk. Reporter at TV 2 / TV 2 NEWS - akaz@tv2.dk
@andreisoldatov.bsky.social
Author of The Compatriots, The Red Web, The New Nobility, Senior Fellow at CEPA, King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence, editor of http://Agentura.ru telegram: http://t.me/agenturaru
@karena1.bsky.social
Eurasian politics and foreign affairs, covering Russia, former Soviet space, Turkey and Syria. I focus on conflicts, political crises & narratives. Senior Analyst RCDS.am. Member @fromtheperiphery.com. Fellow thersa.org. Substack: itskarena.com
@oanalungescu.bsky.social
Longest-serving & 1st woman #NATO Spokesperson (2010-2023), Distinguished Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, ex #BBC correspondent
@lukeharding1968.bsky.social
Journalist @Guardian, #1 New York Times best-selling author, foreign correspondent. Latest book: "Invasion: Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival", shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and Peterson Literary Prize. Agent: Susanna Lea
@kamilkazani.org
@sevslv.bsky.social
International courts, accountability, transitional justice; 🚮 fascist dictatorships I profess international law | Open University https://research.ou.nl/en/persons/sergey-vasiliev TG по-русски https://t.me/nuremberhague 🐘 https://mastodon.social/@sevslv
@mariageorgieva.bsky.social
award-winning investigative journalist and documentarist. Russia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. IRE and European Impact Award finalist 2024. recovering Russia correspondent https://linktr.ee/maria_georgieva mariageorgieva@protonmail.co
@kassymbekova.bsky.social
Professor of eastern European history, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Russian and Russo-Soviet colonialism, imperialism, stalinism, post-stalinism.
@nataliyavasilyeva.bsky.social
Freelance reporter @nytimes.com Past: Jerusalem and Moscow, ex-Telegraph, AP survivor. Shortlisted for 2024 UK Press Awards Foreign Correspondent of the Year.
@apolyakova.bsky.social
President & CEO @cepa.org; Prof Johns Hopkins SAIS; former Brookings Institution; Berkeley PhD, Russia, Europe, democracy, tech policy. Views my own. Media requests: press@cepa.org
@tanyalokot.bsky.social
Ukrainian academic living in Ireland. I study digital media, civic mobilisation, & networked authoritarianism. Nature & cats keep me sane. #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
@sarahrainsfordbbc.bsky.social
BBC Eastern Europe correspondent. Expelled from Moscow. Now in Warsaw. In Ukraine when I can. My book on all that & more is "Goodbye to Russia" (online & in good book shops). I may also be a little bit obsessed with a certain spaniel
@grudkevich.bsky.social
Economist. Former Assistant Professor of Political Science, focusing on Russia and Central Asia. All views my own.
@lokshin.bsky.social
Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Caucasus, Central Asia. Mostly for Germany’s “Die Welt". 📍Zürich
@abarbashin.bsky.social
Russia foreign and domestic politics. Editorial Director at ridl.io
@martkuldkepp.bsky.social
Professor of Estonian and Nordic History at University College London (UCL). Moral clarity enjoyer. Ally of Ukraine. Own views only. 🇪🇪
@kirland.bsky.social
Civ-mil, public policy & RU politics. PhD in PoliSci. Fellow at @ECFR. Tweets in personal capacity only. Shamiev.org
@fridaghitis.bsky.social
World affairs journalist. Frm CNN producer/correspondent. Sr columnist World Politics Review, on-air contrib CNN, CNNE, contrib columnist Washington Post. Worked in 70+ countries. (Threads @fridaghitis, LinkedIn, Instag) https://fridainsight.substack.com
@markgaleotti.bsky.social
Analyst of murky topics from Russian politics to organised crime.
@ksonin.bsky.social
Political economist, John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor at University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.
@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
@vreij.bsky.social
Dutch journalist (ret). Was security and defence editor at Radio Netherlands. Here: news selection on Russia's war against Ukraine and general defence issues. Anonymous followers not welcome.
@shekhovtsov.substack.com
PhD UCL SSEES, visiting professor at CEU, director of the Centre for Democratic Integrity, author of books "Russia and the Western Far Right" and "Russian Political Warfare", columnist for EUObserver @euobserver.bsky.social, outdoor research fellow
@themoscowtimes.com
Independent news from Russia since 1992. https://linktr.ee/moscowtimes Photo: Sergei Kiselev / Moskva News Agency
@yarotrof.bsky.social
Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal. 📕Author of No Country for Love, Our Enemies Will Vanish, Siege of Mecca and Faith at War 📕 Yarotrof.com
@samagreene.bsky.social
Director of Democratic Resilience, CEPA. Professor of Russian Politics, King's College London. Political sociologist. Progressive. Co-author, Putin v the People. 🇬🇧/🇺🇸
@radchenko.bsky.social
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.”
@olgs7.bsky.social
Director, Emerging Tech Initiative at SAIS; Professor at the Alperovitch Institute on disinformation/influence ops. SAIS & BU alum. Former IO Policy Lead at Meta, former journalist at Atlantic Media.
@olgakhazan.bsky.social
Atlantic writer, ME, BUT BETTER available now: https://www.amazon.com/Me-But-Better-Science-Personality/dp/1668012545 Substack: https://olgakhazan.substack.com/
@meduza.io
Breaking news in Russia, investigative reports, interviews, and opinions. In English. You’re welcome. https://meduza.io/en
@garrykasparov.bsky.social
Vice-president of the World Liberty Congress. Founder & Chair of the Renew Democracy Initiative. Board of the Human Rights Foundation. Father, activist, author, speaker, 13th World Chess Champion.
@cerianbond.bsky.social
Deputy director, Centre for European Reform, London @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social . Supporter of democracy, the rule of law, the EU & Ukraine. Opponent of authoritarianism, corruption & Putin's Russia.
@berlinbridge.bsky.social
Security & geopolitics | Previously based in 🇦🇫🇨🇳🇲🇲🇷🇼🇬🇧🇺🇸 | Capital Germany 40 under 40 | ☕ http://buymeacoffee.com/jberlin | Don’t just get mad, get busy | https://berlinbridge.substack.com
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social
Editor @insidereng, host @foreignoffpod, https://substack.com/@macspaunday, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror: http://goo.gl/Jb6uEA. Next book on the GRU for @vikingbooks. macspaunday@protonmail.com
@kevinrothrock.me
Russia watcher supreme. @meduza.io English-language managing editor. (Check my Bluesky Anglophone Russia list.) Based in Portland, Oregon. Signal: @KevinRothrock.01 / Find all my junk here: https://linktr.ee/kevinrothrock
@maxseddon.bsky.social
moscow bureau chief @financial times. in soviet russia, news reports you: max.seddon@ft.com
@ozkaterji.bsky.social
Ukraine correspondent. British-Lebanese conflict journalist & filmmaker. Director of The Battle For Kyiv. Interested in human rights. RTs ≠ endorsement. https://ko-fi.com/ozkaterji
@darthputinkgb.bsky.social
Czar for life of all Russians. Master Strategist. Tea connoisseur. Author. YouTuber. Window installer. Wanted in 123 countries. Parody, apparently.
@theatlantic.com
Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
@anneapplebaum.bsky.social
staff writer @theatlantic. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and now AUTOCRACY INC https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
@eliothiggins.bsky.social
Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat. Democracy isn't dead, it just smells funny.
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Levin Professor of History at Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," with 20 new lessons on Ukraine, "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
@mannfred.bsky.social
Passionate about human rights, liberal democracy, freedom of press & freedom of speech. Pro-EU. Oslo, Norway/Noreg