Russia news
Journalists, media, academics and analysts focused primarily on Russia, especially what's going on inside Russia. In English and Russian (mostly). Still building, no offense intended if I missed you. Some people are inactive. I'm hoping if you follow, they'll start posting here.
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@rprose.bsky.social
@juliaioffe.bsky.social
Washington correspondent and founding partner @ Puck. Tomorrow will be worse. For more inspirational insights, subscribe at https://puck.news/author/julia-ioffe/
@rothandrew.bsky.social
Global affairs correspondent for @guardian based in Washington DC. Ex-Moscow with a stopover in London. Здесь нам не тут. Write me: Andrew.Roth@theguardian.com.
@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.
@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
@lucyaash.bsky.social
Foreign affairs broadcaster and author BBC presenter Russia / Ukraine / Orthodox Church expert My new book The Baton and The Cross is now for sale Trustee of Jerwood Foundation lucyashjournalism.com
@faridaily.bsky.social
all about Russian politics | 'Faridaily' newsletter on Substack | Faridaily24 channel on Telegram | ex-BBC Russian, Meduza etc.
@alxgraef.bsky.social
Senior Researcher at Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy Hamburg (IFSH). Working on Russia, European Security and Strategy. YGLN member. fmr ACONA fellow. PhD International Affairs HSG. Views mine.
@ilyushina.bsky.social
The Washington Post Eastern Europe Reporter, mainly covering Russia and Ukraine
@mashatsvetkova.bsky.social
Reuters journalist I mostly do investigative reporting on the Russian war in Ukraine. If you have a tip, please email maria.tsvetkova@tr.com and we will find a secure way to communicate
@ishepelin.bsky.social
Илья Шепелин. Веду Зомбоящик, а еще – свой ютуб и телегу http://t.me/ilyashepelin
@sgutterman.bsky.social
Russia, Ukraine, Belarus Editor at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
@jakecordell.bsky.social
Russia & Ukraine reporter @afpnews.bsky.social Now: Warsaw Before: Moscow, Tbilisi, Prague, London jake.cordell@afp.com
@charleshecker.bsky.social
Author, Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia, from @hurstpublishers (UK) and Oxford University Press (US). Russia geek. Lots of priors. https://amzn.eu/d/akcwgL6 & https://a.co/d/godZKis
@vkaramurza.bsky.social
Политик, историк, публицист, бывший з/к / Russian opposition politician, historian, author, former prisoner
@markgaleotti.bsky.social
Analyst of murky topics from Russian politics to organised crime.
@nigelgould-davies.bsky.social
Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia, International Institute for Strategic Studies. Contributing editor, Survival. Fmr Ambassador to Belarus. Film-maker. Stalking survivor. Views mine.
@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
@theins.press
The Insider is a Russia-focused, independent media outlet. We're fully committed to investigative journalism and to debunking fake news. theins.press/en
@pjotrsauer.bsky.social
Reporter covering Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia for The Guardian. Write to me: pjotr.sauer@theguardian.com
@francescaebel.bsky.social
I write about Russia and Ukraine for The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/francesca-ebel/ Ex Tunis correspondent. I like kickboxing, cool birds, good hats
@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
@kotelnaya.bsky.social
Observations on life in Moscow, stoked in the Kotelnaya SUBSTACK: https://kotelnaya.substack.com
@eribakova.bsky.social
https://www.piie.com/experts/senior-research-staff/elina-ribakova
@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
@andrewsweiss.bsky.social
Vice President for Studies & James Family Chair, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Author, ACCIDENTAL CZAR: THE LIFE AND LIES OF VLADIMIR PUTIN Usual RT cavet andrewweiss.me
@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
@shaunwalker7.bsky.social
Correspondent focusing on Central and Eastern Europe for The Guardian shaun.walker@theguardian.com
@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
@abarbashin.bsky.social
Russia foreign and domestic politics. Editorial Director at ridl.io
@carlschreck.bsky.social
Investigations with RFE/RL. Russia watcher. 1990s German rap. Good handles, decent J, suspect finisher. Usually bumping Roger Miller.
@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
@eburrows.bsky.social
AP European Security Correspondent. Previously with CNN in Moscow & ITN in London. Speak Russian & Spanish
@iikkakorhonen.bsky.social
Head of BOFIT (Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies), not representing the official views of my employer, RTs not endorsements https://t.co/E0YqzEKBp7
@katri.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Mannerheim Chair of Russian Security Studies, University of Helsinki and National Defence University of Finland
@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".
@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.
@jeremymorris.bsky.social
Write and research on Russia. Work at Aarhus University, but opinions my own, not those of employer.
@jackmargolin.bsky.social
Personal acct. Conflict finance, guns, crime in data/PAI . I tweet on E. Europe, E. Africa, civil wars, and black metal.
@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 | 🇨🇦
@kirland.bsky.social
Civ-mil, public policy & RU politics. PhD in PoliSci. Fellow at @ECFR. Tweets in personal capacity only. Shamiev.org
@rtperson3.bsky.social
Prof. of International Relations at West Point, CFR Member. Specialist on Russian and post-Soviet politics, Eurasian foodie, partisan of tweed. Views & плов recipe my own.
@natashakuhrt.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Research interests: Russian foreign, security policy esp Russia-China. Nationalism. Genocide. International Law. Peacekeeping.
@jpaulgoode.bsky.social
Russia, Eurasia, nationalism, propaganda, autocracy Editor of Communist and Post-Communist Studies (@cpcs.bsky.social) Co-lead of East European & Transatlantic Network (@eetn.bsky.social) McMillan Chair of Russian Studies, EURUS, Carleton University
@klyszcz.bsky.social
Russian foreign policy │ Research Fellow ICDS │ Tallinn, Estonia │ ivanklyszcz.com
@sashaslobodov.bsky.social
Freelance Editor, Writer, and Translator | Formerly: News Editor at Meduza in English, International Fellow at Caucasus Research Resource Center | South Caucasus, Central Asia & Russia
@artemchapaev27.bsky.social
Producer & Editor @ The Insider (theins.press) Ex: Andrey Rylkov Found., Zona Prava, OpenRussia, Amnesty Int., Open Society Foundation, Art group Voina, Solidarnost', Sakharov movement. Living as 🏳️🌈LGBTQ+ refugee in Granada, Spain🇪🇦
@jatucker.bsky.social
Politics Prof, NYU; Director @NYUJordanCenter for Adv Study of #Russia; Co-Director NYU Center for Social Media and Politics @CSMaP_NYU (http://csmapnyu.org); long suffering NY Mets fan; @j_a_tucker on other platforms; he/him
@grudkevich.bsky.social
Economist. Former Assistant Professor of Political Science, focusing on Russia and Central Asia. All views my own.
@katiemariedavies.bsky.social
Journalist + editor covering society, tech + politics in Russia, CEE and Central Asia. ☀️ www.katiemariedavies.com
@threatologist.com
I talk about Russian security issues. Each issue of my newsletter unpacks a major news story from the world of Russian security — tracing the relationships, trends, and deeper meaning behind it. www.threatologist.com/newsletter
@nmacfarquhar.bsky.social
New York Times correspondent and author covering Russia, the Middle East and sometimes homegrown extremism.
@timfrye.bsky.social
Political Science at Columbia, Editor Post-Soviet Affairs, Political economy, autocracy, and the NBA, and not always in that order. Most recently, Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia.
@ilitschko.bsky.social
Russian cyber espionage and cybercrime| Carleton University and MGIMO | GTA Khachipuri
@euraknot.bsky.social
Making an audio documentary about Lovett Fort-Whiteman, the only known Black American victim of Stalin's Terror. "Nothing of them is left over except the same ghostly objecthood—a bare gelatinous blob of undifferentiated human labor."--Marx, Capital.
@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 📧 n.vontwickel@greyfriars.oxon.org; @niktwick.69 on Signal
@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
@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
@jgmaber.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. Researching and teaching on Russian politics and security, and gender and conflict. Expect cat photos.
@alextasy.bsky.social
Producer of Mediazona YouTube channel https://youtube.com/@mediazzzona
@nicolegrajewski.bsky.social
Fellow with Carnegie’s Nuclear Policy Program and Associate with Harvard’s Managing the Atom | PhD from Oxford | working on nuclear issues involving Russia and Iran | author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine (OUP/Hurst)
@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
@emilycouchuk.bsky.social
Reluctant swamp dweller supporting civil society in 🇺🇦 | Anti-racism, decolonisation | ✒️ in Foreign Policy, The Moscow Times, Index on Censorship &c | Views mine
@minczifra.bsky.social
Political & security analyst. 🇪🇺🇭🇺🇺🇸. FPRI Eurasia fellow, Bear Market Brief contributor. Ex-CEPA, ESI. Posts about 🇷🇺, 🇪🇺, illiberalism and its limits. Posts reflect my own views. Здесь вам не Toth. www.noyardstick.com minczifra.substack.com
@lokshin.bsky.social
Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Caucasus, Central Asia. Mostly for Germany’s “Die Welt". 📍Zürich
@mshagina.bsky.social
Diamond-Brown Senior Research Fellow for Economic Sanctions, Standards and Strategy, IISS | Ex @FIIA_fi and UniZurich | Economic statecraft, sanctions & energy.
@thebarentsobserver.com
Europe's northernmost independent English-Russian online newspaper. Cross-border news from the Arctic, Russia, and Nordic. Fighting censorship, supporting democracy! Our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thebarentsobserver
@tonyhalpin.bsky.social
Team Leader and editor at Bloomberg News covering Russia, Ukraine, central Asia and the Caucasus region. Presently in Dubai.
@jakluge.de
Russia & Economics Deputy Head of Eastern Europe & Eurasia Division German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP Berlin) Picture: Tamek Kowalski
@merrik.bsky.social
gory media associated with newsworthy events Yid Army | ・ ෴ ・ | zona.media
@borodikhin.bsky.social
Reporter and Editor at Mediazona (en.zona.media). I mostly dislike things
@georgikantchev.bsky.social
Wall Street Journal correspondent based in Berlin | Bulgarian abroad | georgi.kantchev@wsj.com |
@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
@sambreazeale.bsky.social
Senior news editor at Meduza in English @meduza.io. Based in Riga, Latvia. Contact: breazeale@meduza.io
@ichbinilya.bsky.social
Writer and senior editor at OCCRP. Investigative journalism, democracy, corruption, US politics, Europe and Eurasia. More fun than this profile IRL. Currently in Amsterdam!
@eilishhart.bsky.social
Editor of Meduza’s long-reads newsletter, The Beet, covering Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. 📧 Send tips & pitches: beet@meduza.io
@goryash.bsky.social
@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
@massdara.bsky.social
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Russia and Eurasia Program. I cover military issues in Russia and Eurasia.
@vpkivimaki.bsky.social
Intelligence analyst by day, OSINT in academia, engineer at heart. Now: Finnish Security and Intelligence Service. Adjunct, Johns Hopkins. Past: Finnish Defence Forces, Bellingcat, Microsoft, Nokia.
@themoscowtimes.com
Independent news from Russia since 1992. https://linktr.ee/moscowtimes Photo: Sergei Kiselev / Moskva News Agency
@meduza.io
Breaking news in Russia, investigative reports, interviews, and opinions. In English. You’re welcome. https://meduza.io/en