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@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"
@thenation.com
Founded by abolitionists in 1865. Committed to progressive journalism. Subscribe: http://subscriptions.thenation.com.
@christopherjm.ft.com
Chief Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times. 15 years 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
@shashj.bsky.social
Defence Editor at The Economist. Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
@michaelkofman.bsky.social
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment. Defense analysis with a focus on the Russian and Ukrainian militaries.
@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
@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
@quinnslobodian.com
Historian of bad ideas. Out now: HAYEK'S BASTARDS: https://bookshop.org/p/books/hayek-s-bastards-race-gold-iq-and-the-capitalism-of-the-far-right-quinn-slobodian/21814849?ean=9781890951917 quinnslobodian.com
@lrb.co.uk
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of politics, literature, history and ideas, published every fortnight. Read: https://lrb.co.uk Subscribe: https://mylrb.co.uk/QUEXT0225B
@maxseddon.bsky.social
moscow bureau chief @financial times. in soviet russia, news reports you: max.seddon@ft.com
@aphclarkson.bsky.social
Lecturer for German and European Studies at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement. Also to be found at @APHClarkson@mastodon.social as well as @APHClarkson https://www.ullstein.de/werke/die-macht-der-diaspora/hardcover/978354910
@warontherocks.bsky.social
Experience. Conflict. Commentary. Join our community: https://warontherocks.com/membership/
@marcowenjones.bsky.social
Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
@popovaprof.bsky.social
Polisci prof at McGill 🇨🇦⚜️ Democracy, rule of law, (anti)corruption in Eastern Europe 🇺🇦 🇧🇬 🇪🇺; post-Communism; Russo-Ukrainian war and its impact on European democracies; #UkraineIsEurope #DefendDemocracy https://linktr.ee/popovaprof
@seva.bsky.social
Seva Gunitsky, associate professor of political science, University of Toronto. book: http://amzn.to/2oRD2yG
@buddyyakov.bsky.social
Political economy, Russia, ext. Also pictures of cats. Recovering historian doing financial engineering for the public sector the Center For Public Enterprise and still sometimes missing academia. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674240995
@ruthmichaelson.com
Journalist covering Turkey & the Middle East. Bylines @guardian, sometimes others. ruth.michaelson@guardian.co.uk ruth@ruthmichaelson.com www.ruthmichaelson.com
@ishaantharoor.bsky.social
Global affairs columnist @WashingtonPost.com, anchor of The Post's WorldView column and newsletter on int'l politics. Dad. New Yorker. Victoria concordia crescit. New to BlueSky!
@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.”
@arashtehran.bsky.social
Author WHAT IRANIANS WANT http://bit.ly/3YVabaw | History PhD | Fellow @BUPardeeCenter | Writer @theatlantic columnist @thenationalnews | Flaneur | Film writer
@heissenstat.bsky.social
Laurentian Associate Professor of History, St. Lawrence University. Non-resident scholar, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS) Middle East History and Politics Very unlikely to argue on-line. Blocks dumb, annoying, or noisy.
@jmalsin.bsky.social
WSJ journalist based in Istanbul. Former Middle East bureau chief for TIME. Turning and turning in the widening gyre. https://www.wsj.com/news/author/jared-malsin
@willdalrymple.bsky.social
Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
@anneapplebaum.bsky.social
staff writer @theatlantic. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and now AUTOCRACY INC https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
@nateschenkkan.bsky.social
Personal account. For your freedom and ours! Opinions are mine and do not represent anyone else.
@aaronstein1.bsky.social
President/CEO @fpri.bsky.social; Podcast w/ blogfather @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social; Recent Substacker; Author: US War Against ISIS. Views are all my own
@maxhess.bsky.social
Founder - Enmetena Advisory, Fellow @FPRI & @IISS_org. Eurasia, political economy, sanctions, international affairs, debt & sovereignty. Buy my book Economic War: Ukraine & The Global Conflict Between Russia & The West: https://linktr.ee/EconomicWar
@mashagessen.bsky.social
Columnist at The New York Times. Distinguished Professor at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, City University of NY. Author at Riverhead Books
@aysezarakol.bsky.social
IR & Historical Sociology. Prof of IR, Cambridge POLIS. Author of Before the West & After Defeat. Current AE at International Organization. A 'citizen of nowhere' with three passports...
@jdryan08.bsky.social
Executive Director, Middle East Research and Information Project (www.merip.org | @merip.bsky.social). Adjuncting at Rowan University. Historian interested in Turkey, Prodigal Son of Philadelphia. Usual caveats.
@alanallport.bsky.social
Dr. Walter Montgomery & Marian Gruber Professor of History, Syracuse, NY. https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/directory/alan-allport Husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025)
@stevenacook.bsky.social
Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Views are my own.
@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
@istanbultelaviv.bsky.social
Associate Prof Brooklyn College; Author of Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era: Turkish, Israeli/Palestinian affairs; working on a new book focusing on a post-Oct 7 historical narrative of Palestine/Israel. Also writes for Haaretz and more.
@duyguyildirim.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. PhD from Stanford. Exploring the intersections of knowledge, medicine, and natural history in the early modern Mediterranean. Istanbulite.
@bilgeyesil.bsky.social
Professor, Media Culture @CUNY CSI // Middle Eastern Studies @CUNY Graduate Center. All things global communication, geopolitics, popular culture, surveillance, censorship, Middle East, Turkey, and food.
@newlinesmag.bsky.social
An award-winning magazine for the best writing from around the world. Longform essays run daily online and quarterly in print. http://lnk.bio/newlinesmag
@kovarsky.bsky.social
Professor of Law, University of Texas. Habeas corpus, death penalty, some other law stuff, sentient space robots, kids who don't listen to me, and hot sauce.
@ummodern.bsky.social
Economic sociologist working on governance & techno-politics | Writing book on systemic risk & the Fed for MIT Press Assistant Professor of Public Policy @ Bilkent Political Science Columbia Soc Alum | Former Senior Fellow @ Harvard STS
@vhtroyansky.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, UC Santa Barbara. Historian of migration, refugees, Middle East, Caucasus. Author of Empire of Refugees (Stanford UP, 2024)
@juliadahl.bsky.social
Novelist, NYU journalism prof, boy mom, knifemaker’s wife. Born in Fresno, now the Hudson Valley. www.juliadahl.com
@liselhintz.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. at Johns Hopkins SAIS. Studying identity, FP, authoritarianism, protest, pop culture, other media. Turkey focus.
@abarbashin.bsky.social
Russia foreign and domestic politics. Editorial Director at ridl.io
@bsky.app
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@mehoffman.bsky.social
Writer, wit, and bon vivant; scholar manqué; or laconic recluse. Depends on my mood and whom you ask. Based in Istanbul. Before that Russia, Philly, Hawaii, and more. History, political economy, food Buff 'n Blue, Boola Boola