Jessica Buxbaum @jewessbux.bsky.social Journalist covering Palestine, Israel, Syria, Egypt
Lala Darchinova @louisemichelone.bsky.social Schizophrenic stuck between dying and the world yet to be born.
Pessimism of intellect, optimism of will.
Philological Essayist @pessayist.bsky.social The site I share translations and thoughts of philological interest on: https://philologicaltryouts.substack.com/. Enjoys dabbling in Literary Chinese, Semitic Studies, Sanskrit, Pāli, Polemical Texts, and other stuff. Trying to discover Albanian & Burmese
Campaign to End Repression in Azerbaijan @endrepression-az.org 🕊️Free political prisoners
🫶Restore civic space & media freedoms
⚖️Uphold human rights & rule of law
https://endrepression-az.org
MENALIB @menalib.bsky.social Your Middle East virtual library. Posts of the #Fachinformationsdienst #Nahost / #Specialisedinformationservice #MiddleEast at the Universitäts- & Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle
Our homepage: https://www.menalib.de/
Никола Миковић / Nikola Mikovic @nikolamikovic.bsky.social Analyst/journalist/columnist. Focus: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, South Caucasus, Central Asia, Balkans, energy, among other topics
Posts in English, српски & по-русски
http://muckrack.com/nikola-mikovic
Yéléna Mac-Glandières @macglandieres.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ifgeopolitique.bsky.social
ATER @universitereims.bsky.social
Pol-geog & geopo of logistics and infrastructure in the Caspian Sea.
I see creolizations everywhere
Hasmik @hasmiks.bsky.social Linguist, manuscript admirer, coffee lover, amateur piano player, potential biker...
All you need is love, peace, true friendships, social justice, and gender equality. And taxing the rich.
Still figuring out Bluesky.
Germany, Armenia.
(She/Her)
Cesare Figari Barberis @cesarebarberis.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at ISGA, Leiden University. My research focuses on Emotions, Stigma and Ideology in the Caucasus and in the European Union
@tinaymushdiyeva.bsky.social @tinaymushdiyeva.bsky.social 
László Róbert Mézes @laszlorobertmezes.bsky.social 📍lives in🇬🇪 - Journalist 📹covering mainly 🇬🇪 - 💗of🇬🇪 | born in 🇭🇺 | “non-establishment mainstreamer”; activist; 📝🇪🇺🇭🇺🇬🇪politics, societies, economies | founder of @eebc.bsky.social
Alex MacFarlane @aghowes.bsky.social Book cataloguer and peripatetic scholar, researching the medieval Armenian Alexander Romance and 19th-century Caucasus cosmopolitanism. Films, trains, British. They/them.
Sifarişsiz Jurnalist @elmishamilon.bsky.social Journalist, Media manager
Samed Rahimli @samedrahimli.bsky.social Human rights lawyer. Classical liberal.
Temporarily exhausted soul.
I pursued Consul Romanum, fate gave Elba’s exsul.
bikem su piket @perceptualmachine.bsky.social compelling body of evidence
Samira Alakbarli @samiraalakbarli.bsky.social 
@nigarasadzd.bsky.social @nigarasadzd.bsky.social 
@shafagmv.bsky.social @shafagmv.bsky.social 
zahra @zahraism.bsky.social 
Ulviyya Ali @ulviyyaali.bsky.social A #journalist with a travel ban engaged in a profession banned in #Azerbaijan.
Burak Bilgin Kaya @zwiegesprach.bsky.social #35mm photographer, metalhead
https://linktr.ee/bilginkaya
Dustin @dustingilbreath.bsky.social Researcher currently working on climate. Lots of Georgia!
Arman Kalyani @armankalyani.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood socialist oppo guy
Freelance these days but previously @ Bernie 2020 and Priorities
All American Headbanger @americanheadbanger.bsky.social Nazi hating metal head. Co-host of Metal Life Crisis podcast. Pedal boards rule! Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Sabres & LA Dodgers!
James Dowsett @jdowsea.bsky.social Investigative reporter @occrp.org
Cristina Maza @cmaza.bsky.social Journalist. Covering foreign policy & defence. Editing @ Euractiv.
www.cristinamaza.com
Write: https://lazoletters.substack.com/welcome
email:
c.maza@protonmail.com
cristina.maza@euractiv.com
Signal: Cmaza.12
Zaniassss🐍 @zanias.bsky.social Ethereal iron ⚔️
Serpentskin / Linea Aspera / more to come
Bookings: giorgio@swampbooking.com
Antonia Langford @antonialangford.bsky.social international journalist, as seen in The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times, The Kyiv Post, The i and many more
Neil Hauer @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.
bobmeddin @bobmeddin.bsky.social nec plus ultra
@easlanov.bsky.social @easlanov.bsky.social 
Thomas de Waal @tomdewaal.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Europe, all things Caucasus, Eastern Europe, Black Sea. Also Russian poetry. 
Laurence Broers @laurencebroers.bsky.social Scholar-practitioner, contemporary South Caucasus | associate fellow, Chatham House | co-editor-in-chief, Caucasus Survey
Teišeba Biainli @timurn.bsky.social tech ai history art USArmyCavalry SaveTheManuals Motorsport GoBlue no opinions bout nuthin, shameless aesthete, TrumanProject Fellow 🇺🇸 🇦🇲 bylines just_security strategy_bridge 
Firat Ciftci @firatciftci.com Software Engineer working on Digital Humanities at the University of Chicago
Brooklyn, NY
firatciftci.com
free bahruz samadov (mike) @molenasreddin.bsky.social personal account of an intergovernmental quasi-bureaucrat in stockholm. apologies in advance for all posts
ido @ido.bsky.social European cybersecurity editor, Ingeniøren; before that at the BBC and New Statesman.
Joanna Lillis @joannalillis.bsky.social Almaty-based journalist reporting on Central Asia, author of Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan (2019) and Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan (out in November 2025)
Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me Russia watcher supreme at @meduza.io. Ugly American based in Portland, Oregon. Signal: @KevinRothrock.01 / Find all my junk here: https://linktr.ee/kevinrothrock
Lameen Souag @lameensouag.bsky.social Linguist, mainly focused on historical change and contact in northern Africa (Arabic, Berber, Songhay - and now Nilotic...)
Ilkin Huseynli @ilkinmetdan.bsky.social Political philosopher. https://ilkinhuseynli.com/
Alex Mutnansky @alexmutnansky.bsky.social 
Gela Merabishvili @gmerabishv.bsky.social Political geography postdoc at KU Leuven
@fuadshahbazov.bsky.social @fuadshahbazov.bsky.social Mostly Geopolitics I #CheveningFCDO Scholar I Formerly with #CfSC #DanielMorganGS, #SAM_Baku, #GlobalMedia I MSc. Terrorism #Bergamo_Univ I MSc. Defense #Durham_SGIA I MA. Political Science #VMU I Strictly Personal ©
firuza rahimova @rahimova.bsky.social neuroscience, robots, psychoanalysis, and all that connects
berlin
Joshua Kucera @joshuakucera.bsky.social Iowan in Tbilisi. Senior analyst, South Caucasus, International Crisis Group.
Simone Zoppellaro @simonezop.bsky.social Researcher & journalist | Italian by birth, German by choice, European by belief | Focused on reconciliation, memory & disinformation
• Email: simone.zpl@gmail.com
• Signal: @SimoneZop.01
Vahid Aliyev @rafaeloghlu.bsky.social Global Civic Fellow at Amnesty In'lt, LGBTQI+ rights defender from AZE
Aykhan Zayedzadeh @zayedzadeh.bsky.social researcher, certified metalhead+raver
Yavuz Ömer @yvzmr.bsky.social full time architect / part time artist (maybe)
https://www.instagram.com/yvz.mr/
Lachin Aghasiyev @lachinaghasiyev.bsky.social Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive
Dilara Orujzade @delya7.bsky.social Twitter migrant in bluesky
Gumru Aliyeva @gumruali.bsky.social Trying to find her new journey.
Mariam Nikuradze @mariamnikuradze.bsky.social Reporter and photojournalist based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Co-founder and Executive Director at OC Media
Robin Fabbro @robinfabbro.bsky.social Serial procrastinator and editor-in-chief at OC Media. Host of the Caucasus Digest podcast.
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
OC Media @ocmedia.bsky.social Open Caucasus Media — the Caucasus with depth. News, commentary, and multimedia from the North and South Caucasus.
AzadlıqRadiosu [Unofficial] @azadliq.org.web.brid.gy Azərbaycanda və dünyada baş verən hadisələr haqda operativ xəbər, analiz, müsahibə. Siyasət, cəmiyyət, insan haqları, iqtidar, müxalifət mübarizəsi, ölkə həyatına dair […]
🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://azadliq.org/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/azadliq.org
🐉 Urwë Ամճա ♊ Εὐῳδός 🎶 @urwendur.bsky.social Ertuğrul İnanç: Used to perform & composes music; studied Classics & co-wrote a book (TR): https://bit.ly/3ha7lLU ; Tolkiendil. Culé. ― ⚽ (♂️ & ♀️) 🏐 (♀️) ⚾ (He etc.) 🌻🍉
Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social senior editor @bindinghook.bsky.social / freelance editor & writer (eater, eurasianet, moscow times, oc media, oxford analytica, saveur, etc)
based in oegstgeest
also: birds, bikes, georgian, snacks, trains
John Lechner @johnalechner.bsky.social Writer, journalist, amateur linguist. DEATH IS OUR BUSINESS out with Bloomsbury March 2025. BEGINNER’S CHECHEN out with Hippocrene
https://www.johnlechnerauthor.com/
Jonas Löffler @jloeffl.bsky.social Resident Fellow, Max Weber Network Eastern Europe
History | Music | Caucasus
Doctorate @Uni Cologne: Musical Change in Tiflis/Tbilisi around 1900
Otherwise: language learning, food, wine.
📍Vienna
Alex Scrivener ალეკო სკრივენერი @alscriv.bsky.social British-Georgian NGO guy based in Tbilisi at @demsecinstitute.bsky.social
"CIA-funded socialist".
Fighting hard for the debandzification of Georgia
Ragnar Hjalmarsson @iamragnar.bsky.social Researcher on transitional justice and economic crises. Engaged with constitutional change processes and Nordic security and defence. PhD in Governance, Hertie School 🎓. From 🇮🇸, thriving in Berlin 🇩🇪.
Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social Senior International Correspondent for The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper. Now based in London, after stops in Moscow, Beijing and the Middle East. Author of The New Cold War (the book, not the thing).
Add me to your top-secret group chats!
Aleksej Tilman @tilmanalioscia.bsky.social Caucasus, Space Exploration, History |
Read me on meridiano13.it, @valigiablu.it & others |
A collection of my articles: https://linktr.ee/aleksej_tilman
Michael Hall @mishahall.bsky.social Bostonian expat living in New York. Human rights. Academic freedom. Languages/linguistics. Russia, Central/Inner Asia. Politics of memory/commemoration. Books. The occasional lighthouse. Personal account, views expressed are my own. Repost≠endorsement. 🇺🇦🍉
Maurice Paulussen @mauricepaulussen.bsky.social NL diplomat with @netherlandsmfa.bsky.social/ @minbz.bsky.social
Deputy Head of Mission in Tbilisi, Georgia 🇬🇪
Previously worked in 🇽🇰/ 🇳🇬/ 🇺🇳
(usual disclaimers)
Davide Trentacoste @davide88.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow, HCMH
Medici-Safavid Diplomacy in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0303-9344
Academia: https://haifa.academia.edu/DavideTrentacoste
Dominic Rohner @dominic-rohner.bsky.social Economics Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute & the University of Lausanne, studying conflict, development & institutions. Leader of several expert groups on armed conflict. Associate Editor of the "Economic Journal". Author of "The Peace Formula".
Sébastien Bourdon @sebastienbourdon.bsky.social Journaliste indépendant
📖 « Drapeau noir, jeunesses blanches » (2025) - Éditions du Seuil.
📖 « Une vie de lutte plutôt qu’une minute de silence » (2023).
Michal Kranz @michalkranz.bsky.social Journalist | Eastern Europe + Middle East | Work in foreignpolicy.com, unherd.com, aljazeera.com, newlinesmag.com, thedailybeast.com, and more
Newsletter: https://theeasternflank.substack.com/
Website: michalkranz.com
Mike Raybourne - Mehelle @mikeraybourne.bsky.social Alternative archivist and tactical hauntologist.
Research fellow in Sacred Spaces at Dominican University
Two new projects soon at mehelle.org
Shahlar Alakbarli @shahlaralakbar.bsky.social 
Kənan @kananius.bsky.social Legalism, human rights, freedom and Besiktas
Rüstəm İsmayılbəyli @ismayilbaylir.bsky.social Social democrat. Activist. Master's Student in Middle East Studies at Oslo University.
Hazal @mortermit.bsky.social 
najmin kamilsoy @knecmin.bsky.social phd in public and social policy / lecturer @charlesuni.cuni.cz / policy process research, political regimes, international development, south caucasus
rober koptaş @roberkoptas.bsky.social 
Arzu Geybulla @arzugeybulla.bsky.social Co-Executive Director, Access Now
Journalist
Afsun Mehmani @afsunny.bsky.social No bio. Just chaos.
Scott Rose @rprose.bsky.social News product at Bloomberg. Before that, was in Moscow for 15 years with @bloomberg.com & @themoscowtimes.com. Still one eye on Russia. Chess fan. Views are mine
🕳️ @xaxcxe.bsky.social 
Elif @kedi.bsky.social sovyetova & satine
Legal wordsmith, domestic goddess, better half of a fisherman, feline servant, once a wanderer of the commi world
Musa @punhan.bsky.social 
Yan Matusevich @ymatusik.bsky.social Journalist writing about politics, culture, migration and society in Central Asia and Eurasia more broadly | PhD candidate in Anthropology at CUNY GC | en-ru-fr-de | кыргызча сүйлөйм
Words in @economist.com, @foreignpolicy.com, @eurasianet.bsky.social
Silvia Stöber @tavisupleba.bsky.social Senior Reporterin CORRECTIV Sicherheits-und Außenpolitik, Osteuropa und darüber hinaus. Buch: “Mord im Tiergarten. Putins Staatsterror in Europa” im Verlag Herder.
Husik Ghulyan @husikghulyan.bsky.social Researcher at Cornell (@cornelluniversity.bsky.social), Caucasus Heritage Watch (CHW, @caucasushw.bsky.social)
DifferentialSpace.com
Candan Badem @candanbadem.bsky.social Osmanlı, Rusya ve SSCB tarihi doçenti, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi İşletme 1992 mezunu.
https://independentscholar.academia.edu/CandanBadem
Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social 1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/)
2. Obsessed with lists
3. COMMON PEOPLE
4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS
5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
Olesya Vartanyan @olesyavart.bsky.social Conflicts and security issues in the South Caucasus. Former senior analyst at Crisis Group and journalist at the New York Times & Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. King's College London/War Studies alumna. Contact me at olesya.vartanyan@gmail.com
Isik Mater @isik5.bsky.social Director of Research @netblocks, #infosec, Internet activist, Developer, OSINT enthusiast, NewsKitten, Nerd, HDR photographer. GPG:0x0EB41110
https://twitter.com/isik5
Rovshan @cagdasmedia.bsky.social Blogger, trainer, former RFE/RL broadcaster
Ariz Kader @kaderariz.bsky.social Yes, that Ariz Kader.
Sonja Schiffers @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.
Katy Pearce @katypearce.bsky.social Associate Prof @uwcomm. I study tech & inequality in 🇦🇲 & 🇦🇿. Posts research & pop culture & parenting. She/her.