Matthew Frear @mattchik.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Leiden University. Russian and Eurasian Studies, including 🇧🇾🇺🇦
Vassili Golod @golod.bsky.social Journalist • Studioleiter & Korrespondent ARD Kyjiw • Podcast „Machiavelli – Rap & Politik“
Tom Keatinge @keatingetom.bsky.social Director, Centre for Finance & Security at RUSI
Caroline Wyatt @carolinewyatt.bsky.social Journalist, presenter BBC R4 Saturday PM. Former foreign correspondent. Living with MS.
@mjluxmoore.bsky.social @mjluxmoore.bsky.social Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent based in London
Ned Garvey @nedgarvey.bsky.social Currently: Moscow Times | Зануда | Formerly: Meduza in English | European champion of ultimate frisbee
Farida Rustamova @faridaily.bsky.social all about Russian politics | 'Vlast' newsletter about Russian power | ex-BBC Russian, Meduza, RBC
Lucian Kim @luciankim.bsky.social Senior Ukraine Analyst @crisisgroup.org, former correspondent based in Berlin and Moscow, author of @columbiaup.bsky.social book on why Russia invaded Ukraine, soon in paperback. Rarely seen on social media.
EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu We counter Kremlin information warfare, one claim at a time | Not official EU position
Iryna Matviyishyn @imatv.bsky.social Independent reporter in Ukraine 🇺🇦| 2024 Vaclav Havel Fellow, RFE/RL. Ex- Kyiv Independent. Words in BBC, NPR and others| EMA in Human Rights and Democratization, Europe.
Radosław Sikorski @radek-sikorski.bsky.social Minister Spraw Zagranicznych 🇵🇱🇪🇺
Ilia Rozhdestvenskii @rozhdestvenskii.bsky.social Reporter at the Dossier Center
iliarozhdestvenskii_contact@proton.me
Signal — iliarozhdestvenskii.01
Sébastien Gobert @sebagobert.bsky.social Expert Ukraine & mer Noire | 15+ ans journaliste
📝 Correspondant @la-croix.com
🎥 YouTubeur: https://www.youtube.com/@sebagobert
📕Auteur: L'Ukraine, la République et les oligarques
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social Journalist investigating Central Europe 🇭🇺🇵🇱🇸🇰🇨🇿 at VSquare.org. Corruption, illiberalism, 🇷🇺 and 🇨🇳 meddling.
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📝 panyiszabolcs.substack.com
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Mirosława van der Boom @miroslawavdboom.bsky.social Pronunciation: Mirɔswava. Journalist & military historian. Poland editor @ The European Correspondent. Bylines: NRC, Trouw
Rosemary Thomas @rozzthomas.bsky.social 🇺🇦 Former diplomat: Eastern Europe and IHL. Ex Ambassador to Belarus. EU Border Mission in Ukraine. Here to support Ukraine and Belarus. NAFO Fella traveller.
Ryan McNeill @mcneill.bsky.social Reuters deputy editor, data journalism. Europe, Middle East, Africa. #okstate alum....... send tips: ryan.mcneill@tr.com
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
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
Alex Hardy @alexhardy1987.bsky.social Researcher @ Liverpool University
Research Interests: Digital Innovation/ Disinformation/ Cyber/ Geopolitics
Permanently unhappy sports fan:
Boro ⚽️ New York Giants 🏈 England 🏏
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
Mary Ilyushina @ilyushina.bsky.social The Washington Post Eastern Europe Reporter, mainly covering Russia and Ukraine
Steve Gutterman @sgutterman.bsky.social Russia, Ukraine, Belarus Editor at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
Jake Cordell @jakecordell.bsky.social Russia & Ukraine reporter @afpnews.bsky.social
Now: Warsaw
Before: Moscow, Tbilisi, Prague, London
jake.cordell@afp.com
Nigel Gould-Davies @nigelgould-davies.bsky.social Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia, International Institute for Strategic Studies. Contributing editor, Survival. Fmr Ambassador to Belarus. Victims' rights advocate. Views mine.
Andreas Umland @umland.eurosky.social Fellow @epik-ukraine.bsky.social & Analyst @sceeus-ui.bsky.social @uisweden.bsky.social. Editor, book series SPPS & Ukrainian Voices: www.ibidem.eu/en/Series/Society-Politics/. Assoc. Prof., Kyiv-Mohyla Academy: orcid.org/0000-0001-7916-4646.
Georgi Kantchev @georgikantchev.bsky.social Wall Street Journal correspondent based in Berlin | Bulgarian abroad | georgi.kantchev@wsj.com |
Joshua Kucera @joshuakucera.bsky.social Iowan in Tbilisi. Senior analyst, South Caucasus, International Crisis Group. https://t.co/5NNXBYA2ec
Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social Investigator | Human Rights | Hybrid Wars
- Makes videos on maps, data & #OSINT
- Director of Investigations at @cen4infores.bsky.social
- Prev CIR, BBC, Bellingcat.
Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social Staff writer @newyorker, proud wife of @peterbakernyt and mom of @tab_delete, co-author, "Kremlin Rising," "The Man Who Ran Washington," and "The Divider: Trump in the White House."
Kotelnaya: Life in Moscow @kotelnaya.bsky.social Observations on life in Moscow, stoked in the Kotelnaya
SUBSTACK: https://kotelnaya.substack.com
The Insider @theins.press The Insider is a Russia-focused, independent media outlet. We're fully committed to investigative journalism and to debunking fake news.
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Charles Hecker @charleshecker.bsky.social Author, Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia, from @hurstpublishers (UK) and Oxford University Press (US). Russia geek. Lots of priors. https://amzn.eu/d/akcwgL6 & https://a.co/d/godZKis
Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social Economist & author, specializing in the economics of Eastern Europe, especially Russia & Ukraine.
Marijn Trio @marijntriovrt.bsky.social Buitenlandjournalist VRT NWS // Belgian public broadcaster @vrtnws.be // славист // Rusland, Oekraïne, Oost-Europa
Brady Africk @bradyafr.bsky.social Data, maps, and satellite imagery 🛰🌻🔭
viewsfromabove.bradyafrick.com
Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social CFR fellow, Washington Post columnist. Pulitzer finalist for biography. Author: REAGAN: HIS LIFE AND LEGEND, NYT bestseller and NYT 10 best books of 2024. Man of many hats. Repost ≠ endorsement. maxboot.net.
Abdujalil Abdurasulov @abdujalil.bsky.social BBC News journalist in Kyiv
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
Financial Times @financialtimes.com The best of FT journalism, including breaking news and analysis.
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Neil Robinson @n-robinson.bsky.social “Ireland’s Most Unflappable Man of 2025”, Sunday Independent. Prof of comparative politics, University of Limerick, Ireland, interested in Russian and post-Soviet politics, hoping for an end to Putin and Putinism.
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
Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social Doctor of History at LSE International History. Freeman of the Glaizers. Book Failure of Russian Democratic Transition 1990-1993 coming in 2028. I use to live in DC and do geopolitics, and anti-extremism. Dyslexic Academic. Find a way or make one! he/him
Dominicwaghorn @dominicwaghorn.bsky.social Sky News International Affairs Editor
London
Mathieu von Rohr @mathieuvonrohr.bsky.social Journalist @DerSPIEGEL • Ressortleiter Ausland • International Editor • 🇨🇭 in 🇩🇪
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/
MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social ☕️ buymeacoffee.com/MAKS22
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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social 100% pure nuance.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jonathan-liew
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
Scott Reid @ascottreid.bsky.social At BBC Sport. Bouncing between Glasgow (nearly) and Salford. Will go on about news, sport, Scottish stuff, Eurovision etc. Any rare views are very much my opinion alone.
James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social Professor of Modern North American History at the University of Oslo, Norway. Nuclear strategy and arms control.
Lydia Chantler-Hicks @lydiach.bsky.social Senior reporter at Schools Week, with a special focus on Ofsted and the teacher workforce
Email lydia.chantler-hicks@schoolsweek.co.uk
Kerry Jamison @journokj.bsky.social Senior Journalist @BBCNewsNI
Email: kerry.jamison@bbc.co.uk
Kevin Hirten @kdhirten.bsky.social @AJIunit Senior Producer.
Podcast host, ‘Al Jazeera Investigates’
& ‘The Take’ BAFTA-nominated.
Sometimes just posts travel photos. Opinions are my own.
Jen Stout @jenstout.bsky.social 🏴 Author of NIGHT TRAIN TO ODESA (2024, Polygon). Winner 'First Book', Saltire Society Literary Awards 2024. Journalist, photographer. Ex-BBC.
www.jenstout.net
Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social 🇬🇧 Former British Soldier & 🇺🇦 Ukrainian Marine | Author of Live.Fight.Survive | Public Speaker | Defender of Mariupol | Writer & Independent Journalist ✍️
Edward Lucas @edwardlucas.bsky.social Journalist, author, thinktanker, baker, swimmer, politician. Lifelong Kremlin-basher.
Keir Giles @keirgiles.bsky.social Twitter refugee #1,383,497
Rory Stewart @rory-stewart.bsky.social Author The Middleland linktr.ee/middleland, PlacesinBetween, Jackson/Yale. PoliticsOnTheEdge. @Restispolitics podcast w Alastair Campbell.
Parody
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
@christogrozev.bsky.social @christogrozev.bsky.social 
Gert-Jan Dennekamp @gjdennekamp.bsky.social Reporter Dutch tv Nieuwsuur, previously in Moskou, Brussels, Netherlands, now mainly in Ukraine
Pjotr Sauer @pjotrsauer.bsky.social Reporter covering Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia for The Guardian. Write to me: pjotr.sauer@theguardian.com
Ilgin Karlidag @ilginkarl.bsky.social Writer and educator. Previously with the BBC in Istanbul.
@patrickbury.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social Reader (Snr Assoc Prof) in Warfare + Counter-Terrorism, University of Bath. UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Fmr 1 Royal Irish and NATO PA.
Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social 🇬🇧 London-based. 🇺🇸/🇬🇧 dual citizen. CBRN expert. Freeman of the City of London. Liveryman. "Legal Juggernaut". Anglican. Ex Verger. Author. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Scourge of llamas. Former US Army. Former USSS. #NAFO Fella
Mika Mäkeläinen @mikareport.bsky.social Ukraine, OSINT, UAP & DX. Foreign news journalist at the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle). Based in Finland, ex-China & USA. @jskstanford.bsky.social Fellow 2004. Author of the book "Kimlandia" about North Korea. http://facebook.com/Mikareport
Fabian Hoffmann, PhD @frhoffmann.bsky.social Doctoral Research Fellow at the Oslo Nuclear Project, University of Oslo. Defense policy, missile technology, and nuclear strategy.
Weekly analysis of missile tech, nuclear strategy, and European deterrence 👇
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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social Independent Defense Analysis, Unconventional Naval Warfare, author, submarines, #OSINT, illustrations. Mostly typos
http://www.hisutton.com/
Mesut Ersöz @mesutersoz.com Curious & Skeptical || Senior Motion Designer @BBC #BBCVerify
The supreme guide in life is knowledge.
Mostly busy with MapMaking/OSINT/Dataviz/Animation/AI
Geraint Owen @geraintowen.bsky.social Wales Bureau Editor 🏴, BBC News.
Golygydd Newyddion i'r BBC.
News and #FPL obsessive (🌍21st in 23/24 if you must ask).
A bit of cycling too.
Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com Data visualisation designer at BBC News focusing on satellite data, climate change and cartography | previously at @esa.int | Co-founder of @chartle.cc - A daily chart game
Daniel Sandford @bbcdaniels.bsky.social I am UK/Home Affairs Correspondent for BBC News. Police, prisons, law, crime and terrorism. Before that Moscow Correspondent so still post about Russia/Ukraine.
Alex Horton @alexhorton.bsky.social Military reporter at The Washington Post. Iraq veteran. Signal: alexhorton.85
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Joe Tidy BBC News @joetidy.bsky.social Cyber Correspondent, BBC News. Author of Ctrl+Alt+Chaos. I cover cyber security, online safety, crypto, AI, social networks and everything 💻📱📡. Global news mainly. DMs always open for tips/ feedback.
Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social Fmr. Nuclear & Missile Operations Officer USAF
YouTuber ~ 700,000+ Subscribers
Keep Defending the Truth
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Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social Investigative journalist @tbij.bsky.social. garethdavies@tbij.com. Supporter of local journalism and Tottenham Hotspur. Runner. PC & board gamer 
Axios @axios.com Smart Brevity worthy of people's time, attention and trust.
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Kayleen Devlin @kayleendevlin.bsky.social BBC Verify journalist
📧 Kayleen.devlin@bbc.co.uk
Signal: kayd.05
Ailbhe Rea @pronouncedalva.bsky.social Political Editor, New Statesman
Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social Vice-president of the World Liberty Congress. Founder & Chair of the Renew Democracy Initiative. Board of the Human Rights Foundation. Father, activist, author, speaker, 13th World Chess Champion.
Benedict Garman @benedictgarman.com Investigative journalist, currently with BBC Verify.
Derk Sauer @derksauer.bsky.social Founder The Moscow Times
Laura Cain @lauracain.bsky.social Freelance broadcast journalist and producer at BBC. Sometimes heard during Morning Edition on NPR. Cautiously optimistic SunderlandAFC fan. Views mine (obvs)
Eleni Courea @ecourea.bsky.social Political correspondent for the Guardian
Get in touch — eleni.courea@theguardian.com or carob7@proton.me
Nadia Ragozhina @nadiaragozhina.bsky.social Journalist (BBC News) and Author (Worlds Apart: The Journeys of my Jewish Family in Twentieth-Century Europe)
www.nadiaragozhina.com
Interested in genealogy, family history, sustainability and climate change. 
Ekaterina Shengeliya @ekesa.bsky.social Designed in 🇺🇦🇬🇪, manufactured in RU / GW'23 / KCL ‘25 / daughter of a 'foreign agent' / RT & follow ≠ endorsement
Vicky Etchells @vickyetchells.bsky.social Director, Podcasts @Global
Commissions and overseeing great podcasts like @thenewsagents, The Sports Agents, My Therapist Ghosted Me and Filthy Ritual.
Sergey Vasiliev @sevslv.bsky.social International courts, accountability, transitional justice; 🚮 fascist dictatorships
I profess international law | Open University https://research.ou.nl/en/persons/sergey-vasiliev
TG по-русски https://t.me/nuremberhague
🐘 https://mastodon.social/@sevslv
Iain Overton @iainoverton.bsky.social ⚔ Investigative journalist and reporting on war - Action on Armed Violence
📗 History of suicide bomber: The Price of Paradise
📘 Global gun harm: Gun Baby Gun
☞ PhD for war-reporting
☞ Write for Byline Times / Declassified / The Guardian
Oana Lungescu @oanalungescu.bsky.social Longest-serving & 1st woman #NATO Spokesperson (2010-2023), Distinguished Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, ex #BBC correspondent
Tom Gardner @tomgardner18.bsky.social Africa correspondent @TheEconomist
Author, "The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia”
Retweet ≠ endorsement / views my own
Still on X (for now) @tomgardner18
Tintin au Pays des Soviets @haskell.bsky.social Former professional investor, now farm owner. Trump hater since 1986. Mostly re-posting from this account.
Son loves Tintin, I am not actually a Belgian journalist, nor do I live in the Soviet Union.
Roland Oliphant @rolandoliphant.bsky.social Chief Foreign Something @telegraph.co.uk
Nataliya Vasilyeva @nataliyavasilyeva.bsky.social Freelance reporter @nytimes.com Past: Jerusalem and Moscow, ex-Telegraph, AP survivor. Shortlisted for 2024 UK Press Awards Foreign Correspondent of the Year.
Katja Bego @katjabego.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House |Author of "Deep Connections: the hidden battles to control undersea cables" (Polity, Sep 26) | Europe, geoeconomics of tech, tech sovereignty | Amsterdammer in London 🇪🇺
Keiran Pedley @keiranpedley.bsky.social Pollster at Ipsos. Genuine poll Boffin. Expect Spurs polling and politics!!