Chess.com Titled Bans @chesscombans.bsky.social New public bans of titled accounts on chess.com.
They are rare, expect ~5 posts a month.
In some cases, chess.com removes a player's title after a ban for some unknown reason. I won't post those.
This account is not affiliated with chess.com
Nick Trickett @ruboyinthehood.bsky.social 
@mjluxmoore.bsky.social @mjluxmoore.bsky.social Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent based in London
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
firozah @firozah.com https://firozah.com
Euroopan rajalla? @euroopanrajalla.bsky.social #Turkey & neighbouring regions, human rights, politics, political violence | #HJK & Finnish football | Dogs | Tea, not coffee | EN, FI, TR.
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.
Laurence Broers @laurencebroers.bsky.social Researcher and practitioner, contemporary South Caucasus | associate fellow, Chatham House | co-editor-in-chief, Caucasus Survey
Joshua Kucera @joshuakucera.bsky.social Iowan in Tbilisi. Senior analyst, South Caucasus, International Crisis Group. https://t.co/5NNXBYA2ec
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/
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
Andro @thisisandro.bsky.social Tbilisian in Kraków. Making a relocation from Twitter. Interest in Tbilisi stories, some politics & enjoy a good podcast. Arsenal fan. Not on here to pick fights.
Thomas Wier @trwier.bsky.social Linguist & Caucasologist • Professor at the Free University of Tbilisi • Research languages of the Caucasus, the Tonkawa language • Author of 'Tonkawa Texts' • Weekly Georgian Etymologies
Academic research: https://freeuni.academia.edu/ThomasWier
Karena Avedissian @karena1.bsky.social Eurasian politics and foreign affairs, covering Russia, former Soviet space, Turkey and Syria. I focus on conflicts, political crises & narratives. Senior Analyst RCDS.am. Member @fromtheperiphery.com. Fellow thersa.org. Substack: itskarena.com
Stefan Applis @doinggeography.bsky.social Professor @unifau.bsky.social Erlangen Germany, Geography, Ethics
#Georgia, #SouthCaucasus
Research in the field of geography, books via https://stefan-applis-geographien.com/
OERde educational issues, #bluelz #twlz #bllz https://doinggeoandethics.com
OC Media @ocmedia.bsky.social Open Caucasus Media — the Caucasus with depth. News, commentary, and multimedia from the North and South Caucasus.
Dominik K Cagara @dkcagara.bsky.social Co-founder and CFO at @ocmedia.bsky.social. Pronounced [t͡saˈɡara]. 🇵🇱🇪🇺
Cavid Ağa @cavid.info You know who I am
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 🇺🇦
Mariam Nikuradze @mariamnikuradze.bsky.social Reporter and photojournalist based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Co-founder and Executive Director at OC Media
Bahruz Samadov @smdov.bsky.social Researcher focused on Azerbaijan, authoritarianism, nationalism. Post-structuralist, into Lacan, Laclau, Derrida, Zizek. Currently doing PhD in Political Science at Charles University in Prague.
Katie Shoshiashvili @kshoshiashvili.bsky.social 
Artyom Tonoyan @tonoyan.bsky.social A gentleman and a scholar. South Caucasus
Shota Hintsagty @hintsagty.bsky.social Interested in religion and nationalism, gender and queer politics, and media and democracy, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. Doctoral researcher at Lund University. https://linktr.ee/hintsagty
Robin Fabbro @robinfabbro.bsky.social Serial procrastinator and editor-in-chief at OC Media. Host of the Caucasus Digest podcast.
Caucasus Survey @caucasussurvey.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal publishing social science and humanities research on the Caucasus. Website: https://brill.com/view/journals/casu/casu-overview.xml
Max Fras @maxfras.bsky.social Researcher, international development consultant.
Europe, Caucasus, Middle East, Africa, bad puns.
Not Dmitry Medvedev.
Not quite the master of understatement.
Hans Gutbrod @hansgutbrod.bsky.social Interest in policy, think tanks, Caucasus, dogs, ethics. Teach at Ilia State University.
Jelger Groeneveld @jelgerg.bsky.social |🇬🇪Georgia|🏔️Caucasus | Strictly personal | Raadslid D66 Delft (cie Ruimte & Verkeer: mobiliteit & energietransitie)
www: https://eastwatch.eu
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/
Irakli Sirbiladze @iraklisirbiladze.bsky.social Researcher; Georgia, the EU and Eurasia; IR Theory; GMF's ReThink.CEE Fellow 2023; Queen Mary University of London graduate.
Giorgi Koberidze @koberidze.bsky.social Political analyst;
Professor at Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA).
Political commentator on International Security.
maikl @mhikaric.bsky.social Now and currently. Ex fmr + previously. ≠.
Guga Chomakhidze @gugachomakhidze.bsky.social Researcher | Europe, Eurasia & Caucasus | Seen in @ForeignPolicy.com, @France24.com, @cepa.org and @bylinetimes.bsky.social
Sam Harshbarger @samharshbarger.bsky.social Writer and researcher interested in the history and politics of Eurasia.
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.
najmin kamilsoy @knecmin.bsky.social phd in public and social policy / lecturer @charlesuni.cuni.cz / policy process research, political regimes, international development, south caucasus
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.
theins.press/en
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.
🍏 Vladimir Kara-Murza @vkaramurza.bsky.social Политик, историк, публицист, бывший з/к / Russian opposition politician, historian, author, former prisoner
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
Jake Cordell @jakecordell.bsky.social Russia & Ukraine reporter @afpnews.bsky.social
Now: Warsaw
Before: Moscow, Tbilisi, Prague, London
jake.cordell@afp.com
Steve Gutterman @sgutterman.bsky.social Russia, Ukraine, Belarus Editor at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
Agustín Cosovschi @cosovschi.bsky.social Historian of Southeast Europe and the global Cold War. Researcher at the Institute of contemporary history in Ljubljana. Editor at the Programming Historian. Language nerd.
📍Ljubljana/Belgrade/Paris
digitalkosovski.github.io
Aleksandra Ancite-Jepifánova @alexandraancite.bsky.social Senior Fellow @CEU Democracy Institute and Research Affiliate @Refugee Law Initiative, University of London. Migration, asylum and human rights
📓Author of The Concept of Marriages of Convenience in EU Free Movement Law: EU and UK Perspectives (Brill,2024)
Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social .
Prof int'l law & int'l relations, Central European University
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www.patryklabuda.com
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International law, peace and security, global history
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Global East(ern Europe)-Global South
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Formerly DRC, Sudans, Tunisia/Libya, Senegal
Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social Philosopher / global (health) justice, critical perspectives on East-West hierarchies of knowledge / decolonial, antifascist and CEE feminisms and art / she/they/Dr
RUTA Association (Board Member), CEE Feminist Research Network, IRG-GHJ
Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social Historian of international crime, international law, human rights and the illiberal right in Germany at ZZF Potsdam. Also teaching at FU Berlin. he/him.
Latest book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-democratic-republic-9781350341517/
Ben Van Zee @benvanzee.bsky.social Max Weber Fellow @EUI | History PhD @UChicago | Modern Germany, Poland, East Central Europe | Migration and Empire
Artur Banaszewski @arturbanaszewski.bsky.social • PhD Researcher in Intellectual History, European University Institute
• 20th century, Cold War, Marxism, Liberalism, Eastern Europe
• Convenor @inthiseui.bsky.social
• Graduate Associate @gpolthought.bsky.social
• Formerly @jhideas.bsky.social 
Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social Romanian/German sociologist, Head of School of the Global Studies Program @UniFreiburg, writes about global inequalities, empire, race, citizenship & forgotten Europes https://tinyurl.com/wbt9wyrm
Aleks Lewicki @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social Political sociologist @sussex.ac.uk, writing on #racialisation, political economy of race-making, east-west inequalities in Europe, #migration, political resistance: Reader in #Sociology & Director @sei-sussex.bsky.social
Luka Ivan Jukic @ljukic.bsky.social Reading and writing
https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/central-europe/
Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social I write books and academic things. OG AI hater.
https://jsubotic.com
I have a new book! "The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution" https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-art-of-status-9780198909750?lang=3n&cc=at#
Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social Art historian. Currently working on a book about visual art and Witold Gombrowicz
Magdalena Kozłowska @magdalenakozlowska.bsky.social academia & ngo (or in the reverse order); writing in my own name; she/her; book on orientalism and Eastern Europe published with @berghahnbooks in 2022
Aleksandra Spalinska @alexspalinska.bsky.social IR theory, world order, non-state actors, hybrid and irregular warfare, new medievalism, postmodernity.
Research Associate at the University of Sussex and a Visiting Fellow at the Global Security Programme, Pembroke College, University of Oxford.
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
edin h @edinh.bsky.social 
Alexander Leistner @alexanderleistner.bsky.social post-doc in sociology | https://www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/institut-fuer-kulturwissenschaften/institut/team/lehrbeauftragte/alexander-leistner | http://erbe89.de | https://waysacrossthecountry.de
#firstgen
"Für ein offnes Land mit freien Menschen."
Besnik Pula @besnikpula.bsky.social Political economist & social theorist | Researching knowledge, phenomenology, and computation in the Cold War and after (not always in that order) | Author of books | Personal account | besnikpula.com
carolyn taratko @carotaratko.bsky.social historian | food security, autarky, and environment in modern german and international history
@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social | visiting fellow @remarquenyu.bsky.social
Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social Historian of gender, sexuality and sex work in Central Eastern Europe. PhD in progress on transnational sex tourism/ masculinity/ transactional intimacy in state-socialist Hungary. HU Berlin.
@Maxine David.bsky.social.com @maxinedavid.bsky.social Brit abroad. Critical friend of the EU. Foreign Policy analyst (EU, Russia, UK, US) at Leiden University. Teaching = my way of not despairing about the world. Of course they're my views.
Dr Bohdana Kurylo @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social Ukrainian academic in the UK | LSE Fellow in Qualitative Methodology | PhD from UCL SSEES | Research: security, critical IR & post-Soviet politics: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/People/Academic-Staff/Bohdana-Kurylo/Bohdana-Kurylo
Elaine Kelly @elainekelly.bsky.social Music historian @University of Edinburgh | East Germany, 2nd-3rd World musical relations, cultural diplomacy
Current book project: Music and Anti-Imperial Solidarity: East Germany and the Third World
Monika Kubova @monikakubova.bsky.social PhD from Central European University | Historical IR and Eastern European politics | Working on a conceptual history of neutrality
Julie Ault @aultjuli.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Utah. German, Central and Eastern European History. Environmental and Transnational History.
Paulina Kewes @paulinakewes.bsky.social Prof. of English Literature, Jesus College, Univ. of Oxford.
E-m British & European literature, history, & political thought; succession; parliamentary culture & Indigenous assemblies.
Pole in GB; pro-Ukraine; contra anti-Semitism. All views mine alone.
Juliette Bretan @jcbretan.bsky.social Researcher, writer, and broadcaster on East-Central Europe, culture, history, and politics. Words in The TLS, The Public Domain Review and more; on BBC Radio 3.
juliettebretan.com
Elzbieta M. Gozdziak @egozdziak.bsky.social Migration scholar, anthropologist, Kdrama addict, novel reader, mom to one human and two canines
bloging at
https://www.elzbietagozdziak.com/
https://www.goodbeginnings.blog/
Kasia Jezowska @kjezowska.bsky.social Historian of Eastern Europe. Socialist things, industrial exhibitions, and cultural bureaucracies.
Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social International Political Economy, banking and finance, Eastern Europe, Vienna
@sarafhall.bsky.social @sarafhall.bsky.social 
Petra Matić @petramatic.bsky.social Balkan girl uncovering Non-Aligned histories. Dreamer and doer in a world where the funding is the curator. Educated by ruangrupa, New Art School Modality, Bureau d'Études, and BLOK. 2024 fellow of TheMuseumsLab and Global Cultural Relations.
David Cadier @davidcadier.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow on European Security at IRSEM. Visiting Professor at the College of Europe. Associate Researcher at CERI-Sciences Po
https://www.davidcadier.com/
Françoïs Guesnet @guesnet.bsky.social Based in London and Berlin.
Modern Jewish history @ University College London, focus Poland/Eastern Central Europe.
Co-chair Board of Editors of 'Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry', Secretary European Association for Jewish Studies.
Stand with Ukraine!
Emilija Tudzarovska @tudzarovska.bsky.social Assistant Professor in European Politics, Charles Uni| Research Fellow, Academy of Science, CZ| Form.Vis.Fellow, Cambridge Uni, CRASSH|MSCA Fellow, EU Democratic Legitimacy| ARENA🇳🇴
Previously: FCO, 🇬🇧Embassy MKD
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
Kevork Oskanian @drkevorko.bsky.social IR, International (Dis)Order, Eurasian Politics. Lecturer at @uniexeter.bsky.social. Onetime Liberal. Enemy of Pigeonholes. X refugee. Personal views, Repost ≠ 'Like'. Cosmopolitan mutt: roots in 🇦🇲🇬🇷🇩🇪🇱🇧🇧🇪🇬🇧.
Kate Holland @fyodor76.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Russian Lit at U of Toronto. Torontonian, reader, Mum, soprano, Great Lakes swimmer, Digital Humanist, Computational Text analyst. 19th Russian lit scholar. Dostoevskian. Pres of North American Dostoevsky Society. No DMs if I don't know you.
José Vergara @josevergara.bsky.social Writes about things: Russian lit, Joycean links, prisons, PTA, weird books, Chornobyl, other passions (and whims). Teaches at Bryn Mawr College. Tends to ducks.
Dr. Katya Jordan @drkatyajordan.bsky.social Researcher of propaganda, teacher of Russian literature and language, chocolate lover, tomato grower, and aspiring minimalist 🧳 https://hum.byu.edu/directory/katya-jordan
Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social Literary/cultural history, computational methods, poetry & metres; sometimes video games.
Researcher @ Institute of Czech Literature CAS @ Prague
Curator of the multilingual poetry corpus poeTree.org
Yelena Furman @yelenafurman.bsky.social Academic, writer, book reviewer of Russian/East European/FSU immigrant literatures
Co-founder, Punctured Lines, a blog about literatures of the former USSR & diaspora, w/ Olga Zilberbourg
Mariia Shuvalova @mariiashuvalova.bsky.social Kyiv-based literary scholar. Lecturer at National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy and Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University (2019-2020). Resist, research, and run projects. Fundraise for birds and write short stuff late at night. 🇺🇦 will prevail!
Ana Sekulić @anasekulic.bsky.social Historian & writer. Editor & co-founder of Women* Write the Balkans. Aspiring corgi haver.
Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social Librarian by day. Even more maladroit in person! Sundry book and textile arts, cross-cultural gastronomica, and ever taller piles of things on every available surface. Always hoping for funny, but ending up at earnest. she/вона/она/ona/αυτή
❌👑 ❌🤖 ✅🗳️ ✅📖📝
Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social German prof, writer about the material things that metaphors hide 📚The Icon Curtain; Linguistic Disobedience • Pre-order: On a Wire above the Abyss: Walking the Tightrope thru the Rise & Fall of Nazism • next: bio of Curious George • ❤️ in E. Europe • 🍄,🪡
Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social Reader of books. Weeder of garden. Feeder of Cat.
Olga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social Fiction writer. Like Water & Other Stories (WTAW Press)
Co-moderator, San Francisco Writers Workshop (Tuesdays 7-9 pm at Noisebridge)
Co-founder, Punctured Lines, a blog ab literatures of the former USSR & diaspora, w Yelena Furman
Finishing 1st novel
Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social Translator from Russian to English. Iliazd, _Rapture_. 2019 NEA Translation Fellowship for Iliazd, _PhiloSophia_ (excerpts from Rab-Rab Press). Iliazd's _Speechless Sentence_ and excerpts from _parisites_ and _dUnkee fərEnt_ in _TYPO_ #7.
Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS: THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST IN POST-COLD-WAR EUROPE due from Manchester University Press in 2027. She/her.
Chloe Papadopoulos @chloespumpkins.bsky.social Asst. prof., 19c Russophone literature and visual culture, USC Slavic 
North American Dostoevsky Society @dostoevskysociety.bsky.social We are the North American Dostoevsky Society and post about Dostoevsky & related topics! Check out our blog: http://bloggerskaramazov.com. We stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦
Polly McMichael @pollymcmichael.bsky.social Russianist
Sarah Clovis Bishop @sclovisbishop.bsky.social Associate Professor of Russian, Willamette University
Louise Hardiman @louisehardiman.bsky.social Art / Design History, Russia, Ukraine, Soviet Union, British-Russian cultural exchange, international Arts & Crafts, c19th British art, #womensart
B. Amarilis Lugo de Fabritz, Ph. D. @boricuaslavist.bsky.social Master Instructor of Russian at Howard University, PTA policy follower, boricua de pura cepa. Oh, and it is Old Bay, y'all. 
Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social Cultural historian of modern Europe. Associate Professor @uvahumanities.bsky.social
Books: "The Making of Mămăligă", "Networks, Narratives and Nations", “Un boem la Bucureşti” &c.
https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/d/r/a.j.drace-francis/a.j.drace-francis.html