Following

@aglayasnetkov.bsky.social

Richard Nephew @richardmnephew.bsky.social Senior Research Scholar at Columbia U. Former Anti-Corruption Coordinator at Dept of State (among other things), White House and Dept of Energy. Personal acct. Author of "The Art of Sanctions" (2018)
Nicole Grajewski @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Sciences Po CERI | Associate with Harvard’s Managing the Atom | working on nuclear issues involving Russia and Iran | author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine (OUP/Hurst)
Rebecca Adler-Nissen @adler-nissen.bsky.social I’m a Professor of International Relations at the University of Copenhagen. Diplomacy, Digital Technologies, Global Tech Policy, Geopolitics, European Union, International Political Sociology and Social Practice
Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social Professor, Johns Hopkins SAIS. Study very bad things that happen to people who don't deserve it, write books, overuse sarcasm. Lviv-Haifa-Jerusalem-Madison-New Haven-Washington-Bologna.
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global. Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com Democracy Skies in Blueness
Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social Political science professor at McGill 🇨🇦⚜️Hiram Mills Chair; Co-Director, Jean Monnet Centre Montreal; Russo-Ukrainian war; Rule of law, (anti)corruption; European politics 🇺🇦 🇧🇬 🇪🇺. Opinions mine. https://linktr.ee/popovaprof
Sam Greene @samagreene.bsky.social Professor of Russian Politics, King's College London. Political sociologist. Progressive. Co-author, Putin v the People. 🇬🇧/🇺🇸
Janis Kluge @jakluge.de Russia & Economics All views private German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP Berlin) Picture: Tamek Kowalski
Ivan U. KŁYSZCZ @ivanklyszcz.com Insights on int'l security, intel, Russia | Research Fellow @ICDS-Tallinn.bsky.social | ivanklyszcz.com | Tweets reflect my views only
Emily Couch (Куч, не 🛋️) @emilycouchuk.bsky.social Human rights & democracy in Europe & Eurasia | Anti-racism, decolonisation | 🖊️ in Foreign Policy, The Moscow Times, Index on Censorship &c | Views mine
Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social Saarf-Londoner. Cat Dad. Assoc Prof at the Swedish Defence University. PhD from KCL. Associate, IWM Institute. Senior fellow at Global & National Security Institute, Uni of South Florida. ex-West Point fellow. FRHistS. Series editor @Hurst Publishers
Maximilian Hess @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
Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Teaches at @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
Veli-Pekka Kivimäki @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.
Olya Oliker aka Dr. Olga Oliker (she/her) @olyaoliker.bsky.social Director, European Security @crisisgroup.org / Feminist / Migrant / ❤️ punk rock (but not only) / Opinions own / Endorsements clearly marked / podcast: https://www.crisisgroup.org/pod/europe/war-peace
Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social Write and research on Russia. Work at Aarhus University, but opinions my own, not those of employer.
Michael Weiss @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
Dylan Primakoff @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.
Seva @seva.bsky.social book: http://amzn.to/2oRD2yG. substack: https://hegemon.substack.com/
Thomas Rid @ridt.bsky.social @ridt on X
Dmitri Alperovitch @dmitri.silverado.org Geopolitics, Russia, China, Cyber Chairman @silverado.org Author of WorldOnTheBrink.com Host GeopoliticsDecanted.com podcast Founder Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS Co-Founder CrowdStrike @DAlperovitch elsewhere
Joshua Tucker @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
Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com Chief Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times. 16 years living and reporting 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
Natalia Antonova🇺🇸🇺🇦 @nataliaantonova.bsky.social Ukrainian-American. Writer. President, Concerned MILFs for America. Safer Dating Now creator. OSINT, but making it girly. Advocate for the glorious Normie Restoration ☀️
Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me Russia watcher supreme at @meduza.io. (All skeets here are my views alone.) Ugly American based in Portland, Oregon. Signal: @KevinRothrock.01 / Find all my junk here: https://linktr.ee/kevinrothrock
Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org We're an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting - IWPR @iwpr.net IWPR gives voice to people at the frontlines of conflict and transition to help them drive change.
@opendemocracy.net @opendemocracy.net Free thinking for the world 🌍 We're an independent media organisation. Find us > opendemocracy.net Also at @openDemocracy@newsie.social for those who toot too.
RAND @rand.org We arm leaders with the information they need to tackle the toughest policy problems. Nonprofit, nonpartisan. 📥 Get our newsletter: https://bit.ly/4haSUVK www.rand.org
War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social Experience. Conflict. Commentary. Join our community: https://warontherocks.com/membership/
Olga Onuch @oonuch.bsky.social Professor of Comparative & Ukrainian Pols UoM Democracy in Wartime/GeoPol/EU/DisInfo/Elections/Protest/Identity/Surveys 🇺🇦🇵🇱🇦🇷🇪🇺 📚Zelensky Effect 📚Mapping Mass Mobilization VProf College D’Europe Prev @ox.ac.uk Nuffield/StAntonys @harvard.edu @uoft.bsky.social
Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social Russia, Eurasia, nationalism, propaganda, autocracy
Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Strategists and Strategy: collected essays, 2014-2024. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social Prof of Totalitarian Studies @ 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 | 🇨🇦
Ignas Karvelis 🇱🇹🇺🇦 @karvelis.bsky.social Intelligence | Counterinsurgency | Hybrid war | LatAm | documentary photography | tacos | beer. Not necessarily in that order. #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
Benjamin Tallis @bctallis.bsky.social Head of Policy & Analysis at Helsing - AI to Protect Our Democracies | Chair @DSI_Strategy |🇺🇦🇪🇺🇩🇪🇨🇿🇬🇧 | #NeoIdealism | Post=personal, Repost ≠ endorse. Views mine
Kadri Liik @kadriliik.bsky.social Professional focus on Russia, other interests many and varied.
Olesya Khromeychuk @okhromeychuk.bsky.social Historian of East-Central Europe, PhD. Author of The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister (2022), ‘Undetermined’ Ukrainians (2013). Director of Ukrainian Institute London. www.olesyakhromeychuk.com
Caroline de Gruyter @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social Europe observer. Brussels correspondent/columnist for NRC, Foreign Policy, De Standaard, EUobserver. www.carolinedegruyter.eu Book: with peace no longer a given, how will Europeans - children of fortune - deal with war and violence?
Sergey Radchenko @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.”
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years. Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
Laurence Broers @laurencebroers.bsky.social Researcher and practitioner, contemporary South Caucasus | associate fellow, Chatham House | co-editor-in-chief, Caucasus Survey
abi karas @abikaras.bsky.social likes roofs 𓆏 leverhulme ECF uni of st andrews. (post-)soviet urban space, local politics + identity. she/her/она
Gwendolyn Sasse @gwendolynsasse.bsky.social Director@zois.bsky.social, Prof @humboldtuni.bsky.social, Senior Research Fellow @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Non-res.Senior Fellow @carnegieeurope.bsky.social, Author @chbeckliteratur.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social
Charlie Hancock @hancock2001.bsky.social Opinion Editor at The Moscow Times – Pitch to c.hancock@themoscowtimes.com | Also studying MA IR&War at KCL and writing "Crisis Europa" Substack on European security | Ex-Bloomberg | My Views | Also on bird app, trying to post here more
Ruth Deyermond @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.
Kevork Oskanian @drkevorko.bsky.social IR, International (Dis)Order, Eurasian Politics. Lecturer at @uniexeter.bsky.social. Onetime Liberal. Enemy of Pigeonholes. X refugee. Personal views, Repost ≠ 'Like'. Cosmopolitan mutt: roots in 🇦🇲🇬🇷🇩🇪🇱🇧🇧🇪🇬🇧.
Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social Live straight out of Bucha 🇺🇦 Pre-order my new book "The Land of Tears and Hope": https://geni.us/tearsandhope
Mark Youngman @threatologist.com Helping analysts cut through the noise on Russian security — open-source investigation, verified intelligence, rigorous analysis. Founder of Threatologist and the Russian Security Research Lab. Newsletter: Tracing Patterns.
Edward Lemon @edwardlemon.bsky.social Central Asia, authoritarianism, security and books
Dr Sandra Buchanan @drsbuchanan.bsky.social Peace │ Conflict │ International Relations │ Development │ Refugees │ Environment │ Education │ Author │ Anthophile | Photographer | Travel │ Comms 🇮🇪 🌏 - https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719088230/
Eilish Hart @eilishhart.bsky.social Writing, editing, and translating stories about Russia, Ukraine, and beyond. Former @meduza.io deputy editor, best known for The Beet. DM for 📧 or📱
Oxana Shevel @oxanashevel.bsky.social Prof @TuftsPoliSci. Post-communism, nationalism, identity, citizenship, memory, religion. 2024 book: 🇷🇺 and 🇺🇦 : Entangled Histories, Diverging States. https://tinyurl.com/5y8nvemb
Ian Bond @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.
Jens Siegert @siegert.bsky.social Freedom for all political prisoners in Russia, Belarus and elsewhere. Neues Buch: https://www.hirzel.de/wohin-treibt-russland/9783777634890
Dr Maria Shagina @mshagina.bsky.social Diamond-Brown Senior Research Fellow for Economic Sanctions, Standards and Strategy, IISS | Ex @FIIA_fi and UniZurich | Economic statecraft, sanctions & energy.
Joshua R. Kroeker @joshuarkroeker.bsky.social Russia, Ukraine / Geopolitics, History, Security. Consultant, Analyst, CEO @ReaktionGroup (founder). All opinions my own. RT(BS?) ≠ endors
Rob Dale @robdale.bsky.social Historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. Cyclist, marathon runner, train traveller. Based in Newcastle and York. Osbaldwick cricket club cap no.247
Uilleam Blacker @uilleamblacker.bsky.social I write about Ukraine and eastern Europe, literature and culture, memory and cities. I translate Ukrainian literature. I'm from Scotland.
Jenny Mathers @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.
Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk Military analyst, naval officer, based in Denmark, mostly #Russia and the war in #Ukraine. YouTube: https://youtube.com/@anderspuck Newsletter: https://www.logicofwar.com Author of The Logic of War: https://a.co/d/01Ep6RtI
Allan Sikk @allansikk.bsky.social Parties, candidates, elections, democracy. Prof of Comparative Politics, UCL SSEES. http://tiny.cc/partypeople Co-PI on http://instapartyproject.com
Sven Daniel Wolfe @sdwolfe.bsky.social Professor of Social & Cultural Geography, not representing my Uni. Here to lament / rant on mega-events, geopolitics, sustainability, UKR-RUS-USA, the end of things and how it could be better. Latest book, open access: https://tinyurl.com/SDWHESP.
Olga Tokariuk @olgatokariuk.bsky.social Academy Associate, Chatham House. Journalist, disinfo researcher, occasionally lecturer, speaker and moderator. Proud Ukrainian, currently in the UK
Kristi Raik @kristiraik.bsky.social Director, International Centre for Defence and Security in Tallinn. Adjunct Professor, University of Turku. Feeling home in Estonia, Finland and at sea.
Jocelyn Mawdsley @jocelynmawdsley.eurosky.social Researching European security, arms trade, EU politics. Co-editor of @Europeansecurity.bsky.social & Professor of European Politics at @nclpolitics.bsky.social - all views my own.
Laura Kayali @laukaya.bsky.social Senior defense correspondent at POLITICO Europe in Paris. lkayali@politico.eu
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union | Global Dialogue @boelleu.bsky.social 🟢 We are the EU | Global Dialogue office of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (@boell.de), the German Green political foundation, located in Brussels 🌻🇪🇺 Posts by @jmlanfranco.bsky.social All our socials: https://linktr.ee/boell_eu
Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social Prof, Foreign Policy and IR, OU. Writes on British defence, intel and foreign policy. Associate Fellow, Chatham House. Views my own.
Olga Belogolova 🌻 @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.
Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social Director @ukandeu.bsky.social Bitter and twisted observer of politics. ‘Not yoda’ (DC) ‘Slightly matey politics don' (Q. Letts) Trustee, @fullfact #LUFC Most views someone else’s
Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social Political columnist, The Guardian Author, Politics, A Survivor's Guide Website: https://rafaelbehr.com/
Jana Puglierin @jpuglierin.bsky.social Foreign policy nerd, especially interested in European security & transatlantic relations. Head of @ecfrberlin.bsky.social. FirstGen. Author of „Wer verteidigt Europa“ published with Rowohlt in January 2026. DB Ruhebereich Ultra and deltidsvärmlänning.
Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social European economics editor @TheEconomist. London via Berlin, Stockholm and Cologne. Have no plans to write a book.
Denis Trubetskoy @denistrubetskoy.bsky.social Political correspondent in Kyiv, Ukraine. Writing about Ukraine, Belarus & Russia. Mainly in German. Contact: denis.trubetskoy(at)gmx.de
Paul Mason @paulmason.bsky.social 📖 Writer 🌏 Security & Resilience 🚩Labour 🏭 Industrial strategist 🐾 Wheaten Terrier owner 📖 https://t.co/BjHB4lzjMG
U Ulrich Speck @ulrichspeck.bsky.social Foreign policy analyst and writer. Weekly analysis for NZZ. Ex: Carnegie Brussels, Transatlantic Academy Washington, GMF Berlin, RFE/RL Prague; PhD in history. Bylines: NYT, FT, Moscow Times, Foreign Policy, Int Politik ...
Oz Katerji @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
Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social Managing Director, Europe and co-head of London office, Eurasia Group. Formerly HM Treasury and European Commission. Senior Research Fellow, LSE European Institute. ECFR Council Member. My views. Seeking analytical truth https://www.eurasiagroup.net
Ilya Lozovsky @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!
Katie Marie Davies @katiemariedavies.bsky.social Journalist reporting on tech, social affairs and business, with a focus on Russia, Belarus, Central Asia and the South Caucasus☀️
Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social Journalist; author of Butler to the World and Moneyland
@Maxine David.bsky.social.com @maxinedavid.bsky.social Brit abroad. Critical friend of the EU. Foreign Policy analyst (EU, Russia, UK, US) at Leiden University. Teaching = my way of not despairing about the world. Of course they're my views.
Julia Smirnova @jsmirnova.bsky.social Senior researcher for @cemas.io. Disinfo, extremism, technology. Previously, @isdglobal and journalist writing for @spiegel, @zeit, @welt. Alumna @warstudies
Meduza in English @meduza.io Breaking news in Russia, investigative reports, interviews, and opinions. In English. You’re welcome. https://meduza.io/en
Matti Pesu @pesumatti.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland, Northern Europe, NATO
Sabine Fischer @sabfis3.bsky.social Senior Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, here in personal capacity, views strictly my own.
Stephan Faris @stephanfaris.bsky.social Associate editor, Enterprise, POLITICO Europe. On the trail of Joan of Arc.
Keir Giles @keirgiles.bsky.social Twitter refugee #1,383,497
Marion Messmer @mgmessmer.bsky.social Programme Director for International Security at Chatham House Former BASIC, King's College London
M @marcinkaczmarski.bsky.social @marcinkaczmarski.bsky.social
Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social Associate Professor in Law @UCL Public international law, children’s rights, forced migration, treaties, Ukraine https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/84647-yulia-ioffe
Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social Analyst @sceeus-ui.bsky.social at @uisweden.bsky.social | Associate Fellow @chathamhouse.org | @cepa.org Fellow | Council Member @ecfr.eu 📸 Stas Kartashov 🎙️ co-host Mildly Alarmed ✍️ Northern Flank Notes: https://open.substack.com/pub/minnalander
Alexander Etkind @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 am writing for the New Statesman.
Evghenia Sleptsova @evghenia.bsky.social Economist at Oxford Economics (Ukraine, sovereign risk). MA from SSEES, PhD from CREES Birmingham.
Hanna Notte @hannanotte.bsky.social Russia | Director for Eurasia @JamesMartinCNS | Snr Associate @csiserep | Fellow @kennaninstitute | Book: WE SHALL OUTLAST THEM | http://hannanotte.com | Berlin-based
Dominique Arel @darelasn.bsky.social Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Ottawa Co-author, Ukraine's Unnamed War: Before the Russian Invasion of 2022 (Cambridge University Press, 2023)