Polina Nikolskaya @reporter-polina.bsky.social Investigative journalist focused on #Russia and CIS countries. Currently at @Reuters.com Opinions are all my own.
https://www.instagram.com/polina_reports
The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, economics, books, culture, ideas, science, history, tech, data...
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Gönül Tol @gonultol.bsky.social Director of Middle East Institute's Turkish Program / Author of Erdoğan’s War: A Strongman’s Struggle at Home and in Syria.
Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social Do investigations for the FT, into dubious accounting and dodgy characters mainly. Wrote a book called Money Men about a spectacular fraud
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.
Elia Kabanov @kabanov.bsky.social Science writer and data journalist making sense of cities, nature and technology. Easily distracted by local history. 📨 My newsletter: kabanov.org/hyper
deptford.org
Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Ezra Klein’s tweets, articles, clips and podcasts on Bluesky.
Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social Elephant Lover
Yashar.substack.com
Twitter: @yashar
IG/Threads @yasharali
David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social Middle East correspondent at The Economist.
Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social DC reporter for Reuters on crime, justice and investigations. Data, documents and "convoluted KGB style back-door" stuff. Lawyer, but not yours. 202-527-9709, brad.heath@tr.com
Aijan Sharshenova @aijanco.bsky.social Political analyst
Academic tamada
Research: political populism, foreign policy analysis, political risk analysis, occasionally sustainable energy
Sher Khashimov @skhashimov.bsky.social Freelance journalist and researcher covering press freedom, regional conflicts, migration, and digital politics in Eurasia.
sherkhashimov.com
Brent Hierman @bhierman.bsky.social Political Science, Central Asia, Land Reform, Political Economy
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
Fuad Alakbarov @alakbarov.bsky.social Political Commentator. Journalist. Photographer. Interests: South Caucasus, Central Asia, football. Director at Caspian Circle.
Bylines at Daily Sabah, Open Democracy, The Jamestown Foundation, The Jerusalem Post.
Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com Central Asia wanderer 🇰🇿🇸🇱🇰🇬 | Cricket writer 🏏 | Also Norfolk, Eurasia and Ukraine 🇺🇦
🌏 jonathancampion.com
🏏 jonathancampion.com/cricket
📷 lifeincentralasia.picfair.com
📲 youtube.com/@20SecondTravels
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)
Anna Jordanova @jordanovaan.bsky.social On #CentralAsia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. #PhD&memes, mostly. Call sign: Academic kelin. PlovINT, random rants.
Thomas de Waal @tomdewaal.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Europe, all things Caucasus, Eastern Europe, Black Sea. Also Russian poetry. 
Hov Nazaretyan @hovnzrt.bsky.social updates on Armenia (mostly foreign affairs, security & defense) | staff writer at EVN Report | Telegram (backup & longer posts): https://t.me/armeniaobserved
Vassili Golod @golod.bsky.social Journalist • Studioleiter & Korrespondent ARD Kyjiw • Podcast „Machiavelli – Rap & Politik“
Karl Friedhoff @kfriedhoff.bsky.social 
Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social Chief TV Critic: @theindependent
Podcaster in Chief: @podotpods
Other "chief" roles: tbc
@charleslister1.bsky.social @charleslister1.bsky.social 
Nedal Al-Amari @nedalalamari.bsky.social Syrian political activist from #Daraa #Syria Freedom. Ya Hala 👋 8.12.2024
buymeacoffee.com/nedal
Sandro 🇬🇪 @sandrog.bsky.social Renewables, Science, Governance
George Melashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @mel.ge 🦊 Europe-Georgia Institute, President. Patriot of 🇬🇪. Believer in Georgia's 🇪🇺 Future & Transatlantic Alliance.
Thomas van Linge @thomasvlinge.bsky.social Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for the struggle for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation
Emma Beals @ejbeals.bsky.social Constructive disrupter. Working on: the crisis in peace/conflict, disrupting aid, democracy/human rights, systems change and the mess we’re in. Former: Syria. Do: research, analysis, policy, piloting. Affiliations: EIP, MEI. Opinions my own. EmmaBeals.com
Nathan Ruser @nrg8000.bsky.social @Nrg8000 on twitter. Will fill this out when twitter inevitably burns.
Ruslan Trad @ruslantrad.bsky.social Researcher on info ops, narratives, security-related topics, and hybrid warfare from Syria to Eurasia.
Editor, Security and Defense, Capital.
Non-Resident Fellow at DFRLab.
DRM Journal co-founder.
https://bio.link/ruslantrad
Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social Washington correspondent for The New York Times focused on cyber conflict, digital espionage and intelligence. Prior stops at WSJ, Reuters, National Journal. https://www.nytimes.com/by/dustin-volz
Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social Droa Party Foreign Affairs. Lecturer, researcher. CEE Europe & Central Asia. University of St Andrews alumna.
Aspiring to foster a tangible Democracy, Inc.
Steve Stecklow @stecklow.bsky.social Global investigative reporter @Reuters. Previously worked at Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer. Fishes with flies. 
Andrew RC Marshall @journotopia.bsky.social Investigative reporter for Reuters • Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner • Author of "The Trouser People: Burma in the Shadow of the Empire" • Co-author of “Aum: The Cult at the End of the World” • Signal: AndrewMarshall.13 • thetrouserpeople.com
Jason Szep @jasonszep.bsky.social International Political Investigations Editor @ Reuters. 2xPulitzer winner. Boston native.
Marla Dickerson @lamarla.bsky.social Enterprise editor at Reuters. Formerly WSJ, LA Times. @LAMarlaD at that other site.
Antoni Slodkowski @antonislodkowski.bsky.social Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for Reuters based in China
Alexandra Ulmer @alexandraulmer.bsky.social Reuters reporter covering U.S. politics with a focus on Trump, Musk and $. Previously in Venezuela, India, Chile & Argentina. alexandra.ulmer@tr.com
Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social I write investigative and narrative stories about immigration and criminal justice for Reuters. 2x Pulitzer Prize winner. Please send story tips!
📍San Francisco
kristina.cooke@reuters.com
Signal: kristinacooke.08
Brian Fung @brianfung.me Googler and former tech policy reporter for CNN, The Washington Post, The Atlantic & National Journal. A few things I enjoy: 🎮 🚴🏕️🍳🖖
Streaming at @BrainFungi on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/brainfungi
Guga Chomakhidze @gugachomakhidze.bsky.social Researcher | Europe, Eurasia & Caucasus | Seen in @ForeignPolicy.com, @France24.com, @cepa.org and @bylinetimes.bsky.social
ЗДЕСЬ ШЕПЕЛИН @ishepelin.bsky.social Илья Шепелин. Веду Зомбоящик, а еще – свой ютуб и телегу
http://t.me/ilyashepelin
Maria Tsvetkova @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
Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social საზოგადოებრივ-პოლიტიკური ონლაინგამოცემა
Socio-political online media based in Georgia 🇬🇪
Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social Probably the only Wisła Kraków fan on bluesky.
Christian Lowe @christianlowe.bsky.social Special Correspondent at Reuters, with a focus on Russia
Michael Williams @williamsmjw.bsky.social Editor at Reuters. Plus other things.
Pierre Briançon @pierrebri.bsky.social Columnist, Reuters Breakingviews, Berlin.
Andrew Gray @andrewramsaygray.bsky.social European Affairs Editor at Reuters, covering EU & NATO from Brussels. Previously: Lanark, London, Germany, Geneva, Balkans, Iraq, West Africa & Washington. Ex-Politico editor/podcaster.
Mari Saito @saitomri.bsky.social Special Correspondent, Reuters. DM for Signal #
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-war-frontline/
Reade Levinson @readelev.bsky.social Visual investigations at Reuters
Alex Sakalis @alexsakalis.bsky.social Writer. Words in BBC, The Guardian, Daily Beast, New York Times
https://www.instagram.com/sakalisalex/
Michael Birnbaum @mbirnbaum.bsky.social White House correspondent @washingtonpost.com.
Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social Centre-left politics. Fan of AS Roma and the New York Mets, for my sins. Nerd stuff
Arnold Platon @arnoldplaton.bsky.social Cartography and data-viz enthusiast. “Hobby-etymologist”. 🇪🇺 Europhile of multiple identities 🇷🇴/🇭🇺 |✸☽︎|. Immigrant 🇫🇷. Was an architect once.
Steve Gutterman @sgutterman.bsky.social Russia, Ukraine, Belarus Editor at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social Covering politics, elections and data at The Economist
Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social Private sector economist. Former professor at China's Tsinghua University and Columbia SIPA. Author of “Cleared for the Option: A Year Learning to Fly”, now available on Amazon. Visit me at http://patrickchovanec.com
Raluca Terry-Enescu @ralucahippie.bsky.social Health policy wonk. Start-up co-founder. Data cruncher, purveyor of pretty graphs. Relentlessly hopeful. Kitchen gadgets addict, poster of cat pics, wearer of too many florals. Mum. She/her. Views my own. #QISky
Alec Luhn @alecluhn.com Environment reporter @NewScientist.com | Kavli, Schmidt & Covering Climate Now winner 🏆 | 2x Emmy nominee | non-beefeater 🚫🐄 | icemushroom.substack.com ✉️
Steve Richards @steverichards.bsky.social Political writer, broadcaster, podcaster and host of Rock N Roll Politics live shows. Latest book-Turning Points in Modern Britain
Katharine Viner @katharineviner.bsky.social Editor-in-chief, the Guardian
Tom Phillips @tomphillips.bsky.social Latin America correspondent for the @guardian based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 🇧🇷 via London 🇬🇧, Beijing 🇨🇳 and Mexico City 🇲🇽 Say hello: tom.phillips@theguardian.com
Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social Politics, history. Europe, MENA.
Almut Rochowanski @almutrochowanski.bsky.social Feminist activist. Working on women's rights, peace, justice, civil society in post-Soviet Eurasia while harboring grave doubts about how this work is done. Non-resident fellow @quincyinst.bsky.social.
Mathieu von Rohr @mathieuvonrohr.bsky.social Journalist @DerSPIEGEL • Ressortleiter Ausland • International Editor • 🇨🇭 in 🇩🇪
Marko Attila Hoare 🇬🇧🏴🇺🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺 @markoah.bsky.social Balkan historian. Full Professor, SSST. Author of five books on modern Bosnian and Serbian history. Tweet mostly about current affairs. Anti-fascist conservative. Low tolerance for pro-Putin or woke politics.
Alex Goodall @alexinternational.bsky.social International historian at UCL. Author of Loyalty and Liberty (2013) and The Open Door Era (2017). Current project is on late-nineteenth-century US imperialism in the Caribbean from the bottom up.
Bob Deen @bobdeen.bsky.social Head of Security Unit & Senior Researcher at Clingendael Institute, Netherlands | Security & Defence | Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia
George Greenwood @georgegreenwood.bsky.social "Ever active" investigations reporter at The Times.
george.greenwood@thetimes.co.uk or DM for Signal.
My musings on transparency are at https://relightmyfoia.blog
Sarah Rainsford @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
Andrei Soldatov @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
Pjotr Sauer @pjotrsauer.bsky.social Reporter covering Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia for The Guardian. Write to me: pjotr.sauer@theguardian.com
Tom Harwood @tomhfharwood.bsky.social politics and policy
Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social Chief Executive of Total Politics Group. Writer, broadcaster, media CEO. Publisher of PoliticsHome, The House magazine, Holyrood magazine, The Parliament magazine, Civil Service World, ConservativeHome and more. Columnist for the i paper. Never a dull day.
Sam Coates @samcoatessky.bsky.social Deputy Political Editor, Sky News
Co-host Politics at Jack and Sam’s Podcast
Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social Former political researcher and professional elections nerd specialising in electoral and party systems. Current day market research analyst for museums, heritage, the arts and charities around the world. UK's number one Romania-phile. Still a nerd. He/him
ellegist 🦋 @ellegist.ingroup.social new liver same eagles
Andrey Baklitskiy @baklitskiy.bsky.social Nukes at UNIDIR. Views own, RT/❤️ ≠ endorsement
Katerina Ang @katerina.bsky.social An enterprise editor at Reuters. Formerly WSJ & Washington Post. Interested in globalization, Asia’s future and le monde francophone. #MUFC, #MUWomen and #USWNT hype woman.
Fabian Burkhardt @faburkhardt.bsky.social Senior Researcher, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies |
Russia & executive power, elites, digital authoritarianism | "post-Soviet" space |
Co-Editor at Russian Analytical Digest, Russland-Analysen, Ukraine-Analysen
Dave Wasserman @redistrict.bsky.social Fiddle player who calls elections on the side.
Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including NYT best selling biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
@christogrozev.bsky.social @christogrozev.bsky.social 
Alexander Gabuev 陈寒士 @alexgabuev.bsky.social Director of Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin. Senior Advisor at DGA Group.
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
Pavel Podvig @russianforces.org Russian nuclear forces, nuclear arms control, disarmament, verification. Strictly personal views here.
All coordinates are at http://russianforces.org/podvig
Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky.com A leader of the Russian opposition, reformer. Ex-political prisoner (2003–2013). Follow for insights on current events in Russia and beyond.
My book 'How to Slay a Dragon: Building a New Russia After Putin' is available here — https://a.co/d/ai95jkW 
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/
Mark Duursma @markduursma.eurosky.social Buitenlandredacteur NRC. Posts over Midden- en Oost-Europa, Balkan, Kaukasus, Oekraïne, Rusland / Foreign desk NRC. Posts about Central and Eastern Europe, Balkans, Caucasus, Ukraine, Russia
www.nrc.nl
Jonny Tickle @jonnytickle.bsky.social Brit in Moscow since 2017. I post about life in Russia.
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social Charlemagne columnist & Brussels bureau chief, The Economist.
Past stints in Paris, Mumbai, London. Français. Personal feed.
Bio 👇. https://medium.com/@spignal/stanley-pignal-bio-2acd9b705ceb
Charlemagne@economist.com
Alberto Nardelli @albertonardelli.bsky.social Reporter at Bloomberg. In Europe, mostly. I have strong opinions about food and football. DM for Signal.
POLITICO Europe @politico.eu Nobody knows politics and policy like we do.
Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team Founder & Chief Innovation Officer @ Bluesky
Working on @attie.ai
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