Jeff @jeffbell.bsky.social Into Central Asia, democracy, (anti-)kleptocracy, bikes, urbanism, and a touch of tech.
He/Him/Он/El
English/Russian/working on Spanish
Not here to take myself too seriously. Opinions are my own.
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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Drew Sullivan - OCCRP @drewoccrp.bsky.social Publisher and Co-Founder OCCRP. Creating a global space where reporters can cover corruption and organized crime.
The Associated Press @apnews.com Advancing the power of facts, globally 🌎
Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social Journalist investigating Central Europe 🇭🇺🇵🇱🇸🇰🇨🇿 at VSquare.org. Corruption, illiberalism, 🇷🇺 and 🇨🇳 meddling.
🙏 buymeacoffee.com/szabolcspanyi
📝 panyiszabolcs.substack.com
🗞️ vsquare.org/newsletter
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Roman Dobrokhotov @dobrokhotov.bsky.social Verified parody account
Theins.press editor-in-chief
Stephen M. Bland @stephenmbland.bsky.social Managing Editor & Head of Investigations @timesca.com - author, journalist & expert specializing in Central Asia & the Caucasus.
Власть @vlastkz.bsky.social Айтары бар Власть / Интернет-журнал со своим мнением https://vlast.kz
Самые важные тексты и новости о Казахстане 
Filip Noubel @nasredinhoja.bsky.social Journalist&researcher on Central Europe, Central Asia, China, Taiwan. Literary translator&reporter. Cosmopolitan found between Taipei, Tashkent and Prague. Drinks tea only. GlobalVoices CapsUnlock Asymptote Journal. All views my own. All about context
Diyora Shadijanova @thediyora.bsky.social work in progressive comms, occasional journalist and writer 🌿
hothouse bookclub co-organiser
email: diyora.shadijanova@gmail.com
website: diyorashadijanova.xyz
she/they
Sherzod Eraliev @shrzd.bsky.social Lund University & University of Helsinki.
State & Society, Migration, International Relations
Jen Brick Murtazashvili @jmurtazashvili.bsky.social 
Aijan Sharshenova @aijanco.bsky.social Political analyst
Academic tamada
Research: political populism, foreign policy analysis, political risk analysis, occasionally sustainable energy
@pannierb.bsky.social @pannierb.bsky.social 
Frederik Obermaier @frederikobermaier.com journalist | pulitzer prize #PanamaPapers | member of @icij.org | board member @arijnetwork.bsky.social | co-founder @acdatacollective.bsky.social & @papertrailmedia.de (www.papertrailmedia.de) | www.frederikobermaier.com
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!
Aubrey Belford @abelf.bsky.social Investigative reporter / editor across the Asia-Pacific for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (occrp.org). Drugs/Bribes/Spies/Scams
Nikita Makarenko @nikmccaren.bsky.social Journalist and TV / Movie producer from Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org We are a network of journalists exposing crime and corruption so the public can hold power to account.
Our journalism has so far helped return $10+ billion to the public sphere and led to 700+ arrests, indictments, and sentences.
Mihra Rittmann @mihrarittmann.bsky.social Senior Central Asia Researcher / Human Rights Watch
Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social Legal/Political Anthropology, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan, Lacan, Arendt
📙Rethinking Community in Myanmar https://manifold.uhpress.hawaii.edu/projects/rethinking-community-in-myanmar
🖋️: statelessness, expert activism, listening
www.judithbeyer.com
private account
TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social Trans-led non-profit for the rights and wellbeing of trans people. Over 200 member organisations across 50 countries in Europe & Central Asia 🏳️⚧️
Co-funded by the EU
https://linktr.ee/tgeuorg
The Times of Central Asia @timesca.com The First English Language media outlet on the region, est. 1999. Central Asia's independent news source - covering politics, economics, culture, social issues, and foreign affairs. timesca.com Contact us: bit.ly/4g1ijim
Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publications, research support, and career development.
Human Rights Watch @hrw.org 🔎 🌎 ✊
Exposing human rights abuses around the world.
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
Marina Rudyak 卢玛丽 @rudyakmarina.bsky.social China scholar @UniHeidelberg | Decoding (Global) China, #ChineseAid, 🇨🇳-🇷🇺& 🇨🇳-Central Asia relations | ex aid-worker | 🌹
www.decodingchina.eu
www.deconspirator.eu
Out now: Dialog mit dem Drachen (in German)
Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social Epidemics, environments, and state power in the USSR. Currently: Research Fellow in Global Health History at the University of Leeds. 🇨🇦 in 🇬🇧. PhD from New York University (2025)
Caroline Eden @edentravels.bsky.social Writer about places. Red Sands: Reportage & Recipes Through Central Asia, ‘book of the year’ for the Sunday Times, FT and New Yorker. New memoir 'Cold Kitchen' (Bloomsbury) out now www.carolineeden.com
Nick Fraser @nicholasfraser.bsky.social Urban Transport, Air Pollution, Tropical Birds, Cycling, Plov.
Shower Cat @shower-cat.bsky.social A cat who took showers. 💔 Kittens who romp. 😻 My hooman is interested in cats, politics, Russia, Ukraine, and Central Asia, and nuclear weapons and nonproliferation but mostly cats
Eva Cukier @evacukier.bsky.social All things Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Caucasus, Central Asia. Nomadic linguïst. Author of 'RuZland. Land in oorlog met zichzelf en met de wereld' (2024) Dutch in France www.nrc.nl/auteur/eva-cukier/
Sasha Slobodov @sashaslobodov.bsky.social Editor, Researcher & Journalist | Russia & Belarus Researcher at ACLED | Formerly: News Editor at Meduza in English, International Fellow at Caucasus Research Resource Center | South Caucasus, Central Asia & Russia | Portfolio: sashaslobodov.com
Kathleen Hermans @kathleenhermans.bsky.social Geographer and senior researcher @iamo.bsky.social
Environmental change, land use, human migration
Central Asia and East Africa
Eli Lee 🧿 @eelilee.bsky.social DC resident and rat lover. Nerdy about a lot of things, including US/UK politics; Turkey, the Caucasus, and Central Asia; punk music; fighting games; and securities and finance law (but in a cool chill way)
Pavel Bacherikov @pbacherikov.bsky.social PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley Haas • Econ History, Development, Urban-Spatial & Political Economics • https://pbacherikov.github.io
Alex Yusupov @alexyus.bsky.social Director @ Russia Programme // Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, previously Myanmar-Afghanistan-Central Asia, со-ведущий «Канцлер и Бергхайн»
Julie Billaud @juliebillaud.bsky.social Anthropologist. Member of @Allegra_Lab editorial collective. Interested in law, human rights, humanitarianism, global justice.
Umay_Aryk @umayfm.bsky.social Свобода это процесс в ходе которого вы развиваете привычку быть недоступным для рабства. 🇰🇬
alga Kyrgyzstan glory to Ukraine- C Claudia Eggart @ceggart.bsky.social PhD @UoMAnthropology, ISRF First Book Fellow @ZMO Berlin, researching lived geopolitics, markets and infrastructure in and in-between Moldova, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan
Begimai @begimai.bsky.social ✔️Public Affairs, Gender, Diplomacy
📍Netherlands/Kyrgyzstan
marins @marinsoxo.bsky.social Nintendo enthusiast and fanartist🎨
18 y.o. (she/her)
currently playing: M&L: Bowser's inside story🔥🐢
twt: @marins_oxo
Plita @plita.bsky.social He/him
Made from Asia
I'm aspiring artist. I usually draw portraits and sketches
Infp-a
National: Kyrgyzstan
Uzbek Forum for Human Rights @uzbekforum.bsky.social Defending Human Rights in Uzbekistan
https://www.uzbekforum.org/
Jamshid Muslimov @jamshid-muslimov.bsky.social Trying to think
Islam
Philosophy
Jadids and NeoJadids
Uzbek, Uzbekistan
TURAN
Sabina Sagynbayeva @sabinastro.bsky.social (astro)Physics PhD. Astrobites alum. From Kazakhstan 🇰🇿. She/her.
Musical theater nerd, so pretty much insufferable.
Statistics, planets, and stellar cartography.
https://ssagynbayeva.github.io
Info Shymkent @infoshymkent.bsky.social A passionate 🇰🇿-🇩🇪 traveler couple is bringing #CentralAsia closer to you.
All photos & texts are ours - unless otherwise stated.
Our online magazine: www.shymkent.info 
Peer Teschendorf @peerte.bsky.social Dealing with European Foreign and Security Policy at Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation. Formerly based in Russia and Kazakhstan. All tweets are only my personal views.
Hugo Estecahandy @hugoesteca.bsky.social PhD candidate at French Institute of Geopolitics / GEODE project.
#Geopolitics, #cryptocurrency and #mining #Russia #CentralAsia #Kazakhstan. Working group "Digital Materialities" at CIS/CNRS : https://cis.cnrs.fr/en/digital-materialities/
Jennifer @pennifer.bsky.social Environmentalist, wildlife conservation, raptors and felids, Indigenous ally
Katherine E. Young @katherineeyoung.bsky.social Poet Laureate emerita, Arlington, VA. Winner (w/ Akram Aylisli), 2026 EBRD Literature Prize. Translator of Akram Aylisli (fiction), Anna Starobinets (memoir), & Russian-language poets from Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine. https://katherine-young-poet.com/
Botakoz Kassymbekova @kassymbekova.bsky.social Professor of eastern European history, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Russian and Russo-Soviet colonialism, imperialism, stalinism, post-stalinism.
John Heathershaw @jheathershaw.bsky.social Professor @cais-exeter.bsky.social University of Exeter, UK. Author of "Security After Christendom" (2024) and "Indulging Kleptocracy" (2025). Academic freedom by/for/of academics.
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
Luca Anceschi @anceschistan.bsky.social Professor in Eurasian Studies at the University of Glasgow
Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social Political Sociologist, Decolonial Writer, Central Asian to the core.
Lecturing at @UCLSSEES.
Most of the times you can find me writing or rummaging around the steppe, deserts and valleys.
Fellow at Homerton College, previously at Cambridge Sociology
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☀️
Nationalities Papers @nationalitiesp.bsky.social ▫️Nationalities Papers is a peer-reviewed journal on nationalism & ethnicity published by Cambridge University Press
▫️Editor-in-chief @harrismylonas.bsky.social
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nationalities-papers
Leila Seiitbek @leilaseiitbek.bsky.social 
Setsen Altan-Ochir @setsen.bsky.social A mongolian killjoy stranded in Paris, focused on broken worlds, running along the Seine with fibromyalgia and depersonalization-derealization.
Earth science (MSc@ENS) & history of science (MA-in-making@EHESS) & all things Mongolia.
Truelle la Vie @truellelavie.bsky.social Dr. en archéologie. Venez découvrir mon coup de truelle inimitable sur la chaîne #Youtube dédiée à l'#archéologie de #Japon , #Corée & #Chine #préhistoire #histoire
Elle nous déterrera tous ! ⛏️⛏️⛏️
https://youtube.com/@TruellelaVie?si=XjYN_kIlk2TTl06k
Ed Schatz @edwardschatz.bsky.social Political Scientist, Central Asianist, University of Toronto
Posting about politics, authoritarianism, and Central Asia.
Togzhan Kassenova @togzhankassenova.bsky.social Almaty-born, DC-based expert on nuclear politics and financial crime prevention
Author of Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb (Stanford University Press, 2022)
http://www.togzhankassenova.com
Eugene Huskey @eehj.bsky.social Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Stetson University. Deland, Fl and Tulsa, Ok. Interests in politics and law in Eurasia and American populism.
Dr Frank Maracchione - 马峰澜 @frankmaracchione.bsky.social Postdoc SOAS University of London - Global Political Economy, South-South development, China, Central Asia, Uzbekistan. With SPERI - Sheffield Pol Economy Inst and Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs. (he/him)
Anna Jordanova @jordanovaan.bsky.social On #CentralAsia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. #PhD&memes, mostly. Call sign: Academic kelin. PlovINT, random rants.
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. 🇺🇦🍉
David Hansen @bioarchnomad.bsky.social Bioarchaeology PhD Candidate @ CU Boulder | Central Asia + Central Europe | Black Death | Paleodemography | Gamecocks fan 🤙🏼🐓
Women’s Center “Gulrukhsor” @gulrukhsor.bsky.social Khujand, Tajikistan, Central Asia. The largest provider of free of charge services to women victims of domestic violence. Shelter. Crisis center. Defender of women’s rights. Follow for real life insights into responding to and preventing vaw. 
björn reichhardt @bjoernr.bsky.social social anthropologist with a love for
• community
• film photography
• radical liberation
• mongolia and central asia
[he/him]
Donnacha Ó Beacháin @donnachadcu.bsky.social Professor of Politics, Dublin City University (DCU)
Ukraine | Russian imperialism | South Caucasus | Central Asia | Belarus | Moldova | unrecognised states | Irish history, politics and foreign policy
Asel Doolotkeldieva @adoolotkeldieva.bsky.social Protest & contentious politics. Autocracy, populism.
Geopolitics, critical raw materials, extractive industries.
Knowledge production, Central Asia
asel.doolotkeldieva@gmail.com
Eurasianet @eurasianet.bsky.social Critical perspectives and on-the-ground reporting from the #Caucasus and #CentralAsia, with analyses you won't find elsewhere: 🔗 https://eurasianet.org/
Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social Human rights expert. Global authoritarianism, transnational repression, Turkey and Eurasia, academic freedom. Entirely personal account.
Abby Scripka @abbyscripka.bsky.social chinese-lithuanian american-thai studying tengrism in central asia
phd zzf potsdam + ceu comp his
researching in kazakh and sometimes russian
📍Berlin + Central Asia
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
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Erica Marat 🇺🇦 @ericamarat.bsky.social Professor. Opinions are my personal. Posting as a private citizen. Do not represent any institution or group. 
Edward Lemon @edwardlemon.bsky.social Central Asia, authoritarianism, security and books
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📱
Sam Breazeale @sambreazeale.bsky.social Editor of Novaya Gazeta Europe’s international edition. Previously @meduza.io. Based in Riga, Latvia. Contact: s.breazeale@novayagazeta.eu
Temur Umarov @tumarov.bsky.social Fellow at @carnegieendowment.org I write about Central Asia for @ceip-politika.bsky.social
https://carnegieendowment.org/people/temur-umarov?lang=en¢er=russia-eurasia
Abhi Goyal @abhigoyal.bsky.social Cities | Democracy | Migration
Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social Visual Investigations reporter at The New York Times. Previously with Bellingcat and Airwars. Retired hitchhiker.
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
Nicholas Walmsley @hulegu.bsky.social Gentleman at Large | Bishkek, Tokyo| I do what I enjoy and enjoy what I do | IG: ngwalmsley
“Some constipated pedant who will take an eternity to get anything done”
colleen wood @colleenwood.rocks I teach political science at a big community college in Minnesota. I study digital politics and authoritarianism in Central Asia. Opinions expressed here are mine; views do not reflect the state of Minnesota or U.S. government.
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet. 
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