Clément Plaisant @cplaisant.bsky.social International Relations | Diplomacy | Turkey-Syria | Et un peu d'@OL. Personal views here
laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social the best goddamn dancer in the american ballet academy // lauraolin.com
V-Dem Institute @vdeminstitute.bsky.social The V-Dem Institute is an independent research institute and the Headquarters of the V-Dem project, based at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The V-Dem project (Varieties of Democracy) is a unique approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy. 
Eurosky Social @eurosky.social Building open social web infrastructure and apps in Europe. Public interest non-profit, part of Modal Foundation.
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SSRS @ssrsresearch.bsky.social SSRS is redefining research to impact positive change. Our passion for solving problems is relentless, and we foster transparency through collaboration.
Terje Helland @terjehelland.bsky.social Geopolitics. Generous with compliments. Dedicated to helping others. Consultant. Communication. Rhetoric. Politics. Media.
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Global Defenders Collective @globaldefenders.bsky.social www.global-defenders.org
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
The Relevant Organs @relevantorgans.bsky.social China's soft-power vanguard, rectifying your thought since 2010. Claiming this handle as an inalienable part of China.
Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social Books! One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, & a Nabokov bio. Now working on Snowblind: Death on the Polar Ice. Former karateka & record store clerk. Newsletter & podcast: andreapitzer.com.
Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social Managing editor/local at ProPublica, past prez of AHCJ, Detroit Lions fan. Email: charles.ornstein@propublica.org. Posts are my own.
Maria Gerth-Niculescu @mariag-n.bsky.social Freelance journalist 🎥 / 📝 / 🎙️
Currently based in 🇲🇩, also covering 🇷🇴
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Mikhail Zygar @zygaro.bsky.social Writer, journalist, criminal (according to Putin’s Russia)
Authoritarian Political Systems Group @apsgworkshop.bsky.social The first public workshop on autocracies. Hosted by @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social Siyun Jiang @emisimison.bsky.social Ikromjon Tuhtasunov
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Jonathan Spicer @jonathanspicer.bsky.social Journalist and Reuters bureau chief in Turkey. Native of Canada. Views my own 
Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social Asst Prof, Berkeley, Political Science: 1/ Agenda Seeding http://j.mp/agenda-seeding 2/ Race as a Bundle of Sticks http://j.mp/bundle-of 3/ Text as Behavior https://cup.org/4cUmoXi 4/ Plutopopulism http://cup.org/4cfm0Az
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free bahruz samadov (mike) @molenasreddin.bsky.social personal account of an intergovernmental quasi-bureaucrat in stockholm. apologies in advance for all posts
hromadske @hromadske.bsky.social 🇺🇦 Independent Ukrainian media outlet founded by journalists on November 22, 2013, at the dawn of the Revolution of Dignity.
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social Texas. Senior director of polling at YouGov. Adviser to Young Men Research Initiative.
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64 Project @64project.bsky.social Explanatory Media Platform from Georgia 🇬🇪 | Covering #GeorgiaProtests and more
Gian-Paolo Accardo @gpaccardo.bsky.social 🇮🇹 + 🇳🇱 in 🇧🇪 & 🇫🇷 | 🇪🇺 journalist | cofounder Voxeurop EDJNet europanow! | VP AJE France | Contributing to Internazionale & Libex | Oxford Climate Journalism Network alumnus | ECPMF SB member. Everything Europe.
Roman A. @romanad.bsky.social Investigate disinformation, extremism and other fun things.
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RoguePollster @roguepollster.bsky.social aka Dina Smeltz. International polling expert, senior fellow of public opinion and foreign policy at The Chicago Council, film fanatic, chihuahua whisperer, explorer
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.
Coda Story @codastory.com Journalism that unpacks the global authoritarian toolkit, such as the abuse of new technologies, the rise of oligarchy and the manipulation of scientific fact.
Elene Panchulidze @elenepanchulidze.bsky.social Research Coordinator at @epd.eu & @europeandemocracyhub.epd.eu
Protest 24 @protest24.bsky.social Protest 24 is a page focused on sharing information about protests in #Georgia and providing daily updates on its dynamics.
Moldova Matters @moldovamatters.md The #1 source for news about Moldova in English.
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Mary Glantz @tarheelmary.bsky.social Former USIP Senior Advisor on Russia and Europe. Former US Foreign Service Officer focused on Russia and Eastern Europe. Historian of U.S.-Soviet relations (military, diplomatic, and social history). Data scientist focused on sentiment analysis.
Dustin @dustingilbreath.bsky.social Researcher currently working on climate. Lots of Georgia!
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Informed Alarmist @informedalarmist.bsky.social Subscribe at informedalarmist.substack.com
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Cristina Maza @cmaza.bsky.social Journalist. Covering foreign policy & defence. Editing @ Euractiv.
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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social Syria, Middle East politics, and Mediterranean security at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI). Associate fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Occasional freelance writer.
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)
Michael Meyer-Resende @meyer-resende.bsky.social Writer and Executive Director, Democracy Reporting International. Lisbon & Berlin.
Consensus is gemütlich. Debate is inspiring.
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Marika Djolai 🇵🇸🇺🇦☮️ @madzarica.bsky.social Madzarica from Novi Sad. Anti-war and pro democracy 💯
Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe.bsky.social Author of MOTHERLAND: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy. A finalist for the National Book Award.
DC correspondent at Puck.
All views my own.
Javier Corrales @javiercorrales.bsky.social 
Jonas W. Schmid @jonaswschmid.bsky.social Researching autocratic politics, ministers & international cooperation at the University of Oslo.
Mareike Ohlberg @mareikeohlberg.bsky.social CCP interference, digital, media, ideology | Permanent email/DM bankruptcy | #peasantpride | Usual disclaimers
Kristina Hook @kristinahook.bsky.social Asst. Professor, Conflict Management, Kennesaw State University. Fellow, Atlantic Council. PhD, University of Notre Dame. Anthropology in Ukraine since 2015. Genocide/atrocity prevention 
Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social Former governor still on a mission to build a clean energy economy and protect our democracy.
hannah draper @jankypants.bsky.social the jankier the pants, the player you get
birdsite asylum seeker (formerly draperha) making this my new home
type-a bureaucrat professionally pushing papers in/around the middle east. history nerd, arabist, turkophile, news junkie, perpetually tired
Jeremy Konyndyk @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social President of @refugeesintl.bsky.social
Humanitarianism, baking, biking. Former lead for COVID (46) and disaster response (44) at USAID.
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Daron Acemoglu @dacemoglumit.bsky.social Institute Professor, MIT Economics. Co-Director of @mitshapingwork.bsky.social. Author of Why Nations Fail, The Narrow Corridor, and Power & Progress.
Shit Nonprofits Say @nonprofitssay.bsky.social Capturing the aesthetic beauty of nonprofit organizational expression. From the people who brought you the same on Twitter/X.
Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social 🦫, professor, coordinator BiEPAG, director CSEES Uni. Graz, President ASN, in english, Deutsch i naški. Seriously Balkans Podcast.
Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social Independent and informed news and insight on Polish politics, culture, business and history.
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KA SEMENOVA @kasemenova.bsky.social Writer, editor, lapsed Russianist
That guy up there on the left is Vladimir, in Titicut Follies. He was my uncle. I’m writing abt him on Substack.
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Nassim Assefi @nassefi.bsky.social women's health/global health/human rights physician, novelist, creative content catalyst, TED(+MED)ster, single mama, Iranian-American, global nomad, feminist, thrillionaire; www.nassimassefi.com
Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Oregon. Rotisserie chicken enthusiast. Senate’s resident privacy hawk.
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Florencia Guerzovich @guerzovich.bsky.social Consultant & Systems Convener: at the intersection of governance, monitoring, evaluation, research & learning
Co-founder @act4delivery
Collaborating w/#Politeia
PONARS Eurasia @ponarseurasia.bsky.social New approaches to research on security, politics, economics, and society in Russia & Eurasia. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of George Washington University
https://www.ponarseurasia.org/
IERES @ GWU
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social Senior Correspondent at Vox covering the crisis of global democracy. Author of The Reactionary Spirit, a book on that topic, and a '25-'26 distinguished visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House.
Zselyke Csaky @zecsaky.bsky.social Senior research fellow CER @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social. Mostly EU stuff, sprinkled with some democracy & Central Europe. Past lives Freedom House, EUI, Bloomberg.
Arzu Geybulla @arzugeybulla.bsky.social Co-Executive Director, Access Now
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Garbage Day @garbageday.email I'm a newsletter (and sometimes other stuff) about the internet (and sometimes other stuff)
Paula Erizanu @paulaerizanu.bsky.social Journalist & writer from Moldova. Often in Romania. Lived in the UK for 12 years.
Words: The Guardian, FT, BBC, London Review of Books etc.
Laura Starink @laurastarink.bsky.social Slavicist, journalist, writer. Former Moscow correspondent of Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. Published 5 books: 'Mail from Russia', 'The Russian Hangover', 'German Roots', 'The Shadow of Big Brother' and 'A Land from Hearsay
VSquare.org @vsquare.bsky.social 🔎 Investigating Central Europe | We are a non-profit investigative journalism platform: https://vsquare.org
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Thomas de Waal @tomdewaal.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Europe, all things Caucasus, Eastern Europe, Black Sea. Also Russian poetry. 
Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social Journalist investigating Central Europe 🇭🇺🇵🇱🇸🇰🇨🇿 at VSquare.org. Corruption, illiberalism, 🇷🇺 and 🇨🇳 meddling.
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Giorgi Revishvili @revishvili.bsky.social Military Analyst • Former Senior Advisor at the NSC of Georgia• Focused on Russian Foreign and Security Policy • Views my own https://russiaanalyzed.substack.com
Cathy Young @cathyyoung63.bsky.social Writer: Bulwark, Newsday, others. Former Soviet Jewish American gal. Otter afficionada. You know the drill.
Paul Saproza @paulsaproza.com Political Theory / Democratic Innovations
Luiss University, Roma
https://x.com/paulsaproza
https://linkedin.com/in/boscolebrun/
Kristina Jeffers @kaijeffers.bsky.social Just doing my part to knock down autocrats (and aspiring autocrats) wherever I can
Farida Rustamova @faridaily.bsky.social all about Russian politics | 'Vlast' newsletter about Russian power | ex-BBC Russian, Meduza, RBC
Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social Freelance journalist living and working in Kyiv, Ukraine
BBC local radio freelance reporter, sometimes heard on LBC radio
Very biased: against fascist and authoritarian regimes; for democracy, rule of law, and human rights.
Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social 
David Smith @dsmith890.bsky.social American entrepreneur living in Moldova. I write a newsletter about Moldovan political and economic news each week in English at Moldova Matters.
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Sébastien Gobert @sebagobert.bsky.social Expert Ukraine & mer Noire | 15+ ans journaliste
📝 Correspondant @la-croix.com
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📕Auteur: L'Ukraine, la République et les oligarques
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Dimitar Bechev @dimitarbechev.bsky.social Director of the Dahrendorf Programme
St Antony's College, Oxford and Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe
Author: Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe and Turkey under Erdoğan (Yale)
Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social Journalist and editor, providing news and analysis on the drastic reversal of liberal democratic values in Georgia 🇬🇪 Supporting Ukraine with all my heart and passion 🇺🇦
Democratic Security Institute @demsecinstitute.bsky.social Independent think tank focused on democracy and security in Eurasia. Home of the Eurasia Democratic Security Network. 
Carnegie Democracy @carnegiedcg.bsky.social The Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment conducts independent analysis on global policy, polarization, tech, equality & more.
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Katy Lee @katyinparis.bsky.social Journalist in Paris. Co-host of The Europeans, an award-winning podcast about Europe europeanspod.bsky.social
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
Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social 🇵🇱🇩🇪🇪🇺⚖️ Senior Research Coordinator at @democracyreporting.bsky.social, re:constitution programme - rule of law in the EU. Lives on a Berlin-Poznań-Warszawa train. "European Elitist". He/him. Full-time nerd. I'm a fan of bios longer than 160 characters.
will neal @willneal.bsky.social writer, investigative journalist | 2025 Livingston Award finalist, Amnesty Media Award shortlistee | 2024 John Schofield Trust fellow | contact via willneal.org/
Hassan Hassan @hhassan.bsky.social Founder and Editor in Chief, @newlinesmag.bsky.social. New York Times Bestselling Author https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1682450201/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1699110557&sr=8-1. Father of two boys
@charleslister1.bsky.social @charleslister1.bsky.social 
Sabine Freizer Gunes @sabinefreizer.bsky.social 
Sabra Ayres @sabraayres.bsky.social Journalist based in Ukraine. Frequently in the @latimes.com Working to support local media here for Fondation Hirondelle. Will entertain any and all conversations about dogs. Portfolio: www.sabraayres.com
Mary Ilyushina @ilyushina.bsky.social The Washington Post Eastern Europe Reporter, mainly covering Russia and Ukraine
Diane de Vignemont @diane2v.bsky.social Freelance journalist, always open to commissions
✍️ New Lines Magazine, Prospect Magazine, Jacobin Magazine, Libération, L'Humanité Magazine, Arrêt sur images, Causette, Têtu·, Retronews, France-Amérique Magazine
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social Award-winning foreign correspondent. Former @washingtonpost.com staff writer. Now: London. Previously: Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo. Email me: louisaloveluck@gmail.com.
OC Media @ocmedia.bsky.social Open Caucasus Media — the Caucasus with depth. News, commentary, and multimedia from the North and South Caucasus.
Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org Nonpartisan, nonadvocacy data and analysis. Visit us at https://www.pewresearch.org/