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Sophia Winkler @sophiawinkler.bsky.social doctoral researcher @ZOiS | MoveMeRu (ERC) | media analysis, political communication, collective memory, Russians abroad
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James Rodgers @jmacrodgers.bsky.social Author. Journalist. Fellow Royal Historical Soc. Linguist.
Editorial Adviser, History Today.
Ex correspondent in Moscow, Brussels, Gaza.
New book, The Return of Russia, out now.
https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300270815/the-return-of-russia/
(Mis)Translating Deceit (AHRC-funded project) @m-deceit.bsky.social 3-year AHRC-funded project ‘(Mis)Translating Deceit: Disinformation as a Translingual, Discursive Dynamic’. PI: Stephen Hutchings / Lead Co-I: Vera Tolz
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Katerina Tertytchnaya @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at Oxford studying authoritarianism. https://katerinatertytchnaya.com
The British Association of the Study of Ukraine @thebasuorg.bsky.social A multidisciplinary community for those who work on, study &/or want to learn more about Ukraine. For academics, policy makers, & practitioners.
Founded April 2024
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Alissa de Carbonnel @alissadecarbonnel.bsky.social International security analyst | former Deputy Director @CrisisGroup & Senior Correspondent @Reuters | Writing on European rearmament, Russia & Ukraine
Denisa Kostovicova @denisakost.bsky.social Professor of Global Politics, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science
https://www.lse.ac.uk/european-institute/people/kostovicova-denisa
Kohei Watanabe @koheiw.bsky.social I analyze textual data for a living and fun using R packages that I develop. Visit https://blog.koheiw.net for more details.
Max Alyukov @max-alyukov.bsky.social Lecturer at the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews
Liliia Sablina @liliiasablina.bsky.social Postdoc at Vienna School of International Studies / Diplomatische Akademie Wien | PhD in Political Science, Central European University | Researching transnational digital authoritarianism & illiberal mobilization
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford @resc25.bsky.social Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre (RESC) at St Antony's College, Oxford. Founded 1 April 1953 with appointment of first Director David Footman. https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/russian-and-eurasian/russian-and-eurasian-studies-centre/
Jokubas Salyga @jokubassalyga.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Political Science at UT RGV
Associate Editor @gpejournal.bsky.social
Political economist exploring post-communist Europe, capitalism and social change.
🌐 jokubassalyga.lt
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Bakhytzhan Kurmanov @bkurmanov.bsky.social Researcher/scholar based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Central Asia
Open government, digital activism, authoritarian politics and memory
Senior research fellow at University of Central Asia. Views are my own.
Russia Watcher @russiawatcher.bsky.social The Russia Watcher is a daily tracking survey of Russian public opinion, run by political scientists from the Department of Politics at Princeton University. Learn more at http://russiawatcher.com.
Emil Kamalov @emilkamalov.bsky.social Political scientist | Postdoc at Stanford
Principal investigator | OutRush
Migration, repression, authoritarianism, Russia
PhD EUI
emilkamalov.com
outrush.io
UCSB Media Skill Lab @mediaskill.bsky.social The media skill lab, led by Dr. Kristy Hamilton, uses empirical research to understand how aspects of our digital environment enable & alter strategic decision-making surrounding our media use
https://www.kristyahamilton.comm.ucsb.edu/media-skill-lab/ 
Berikbol Dukeyev @berikboldukeyev.bsky.social Postdoctoral Scholar at Nazarbayev University in Astana. Memory politics, politics& security in Central Asia. Views mine.
Nations and Nationalism @nationsnationalism.bsky.social Journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism
Danyliw Seminar on Ukraine @danyliwseminar.bsky.social Danyliw Research Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine
25-27 September 2025
University of Ottawa, Canada
#Danyliw25
@uottawa.bsky.social
Mikhail Polianskii @polianskii.bsky.social PhD @goetheuni.bsky.social; Post-Doctoral Researcher at @prif.org
PATTERN Project (https://www.prif.org/en/research/projects/pattern). Russian Foreign Policy, Post-Soviet Space, European Security, Cold War History
Maksim Kurnikov @mkournikov.bsky.social Journalist 
Andrey Davydov @andreydavydov.bsky.social PhD Candidate @ McGill University | Political Science | Eastern Europe, Ethnonationalism, Radical Right, Media
Gëzim Krasniqi @gezimk.bsky.social Lecturer in Nationalism & Political Sociology; Programme Co-Director, MSc Nationalism in Global Perspective https://tinyurl.com/ymp99suc @uoe-sps.bsky.social
Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies @ieres-gwu.bsky.social Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at GWU Elliott School for International Affairs. Home of @illsp.bsky.social
Anton Shirikov @antonshirikov.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas, previously a postdoc at Columbia University. I study Russian propaganda, disinformation, media, trust, and the politics of post-communism.
Sean R. Roberts @robertsreport.bsky.social Professor of Int'l Development @GWU. Follow culture and politics of Central Asia with a particular focus on the Uyghur people. Author of "The War on the Uyghurs" (Princeton University Press, 2020)
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 
Susanne Wengle @susawe.bsky.social professor, aca-dork, aca-mama, writer-of-things, finder-of-things, fixer-of-things, inter alia
Nargis Kassenova @nargiskassenova.bsky.social A Central Asian/Central Asianist currently living in Cambridge, MA.
Pauline Jones @profpjones.bsky.social UM Prof. of Political Science + Director Michigan in Washington
study autocracies, believe in democracies, aspire to train future leaders- L Dr. Elizabeth Wishnick @lizwish.bsky.social Researcher on China, Russia, Sino-Russian relations, Central Asia, Arctic, resources, non-traditional security.
The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com North America’s Trusted Source Of News
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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.- R Jean-François Ratelle @ratellejeff.bsky.social
Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America - Regensburg @europeamerica.bsky.social Area Studies research cluster on European-American connections & entanglements, historically & today. A joint platform of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) & the University of Regensburg. Funded by the Leibniz Association.
Nikolas Gvosdev @fpriorbis.bsky.social Someone who follows geopolitical and geo-economic trends and studies how national security decisions get made. All comments are personal opinions and do not reflect any official/institutional views.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikolas-gvosdev-925485301/
Jeremy Teigen @profteigen.bsky.social Poli Sci Prof @ Ramapo College and former Fulbright Scholar, writes on US elections, military, & vets. Author of Why Veterans Run https://goo.gl/zEDBFo
James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social Professor of History. Writer of books.
Host of "History's Devils" ⬇️
https://historysdevils.buzzsprout.com/
https://youtube.com/@historysdevils
#history #spies, #extremism, fake news, weird stories, terrible people and things that are not real 🗃️ 📚
Emily L @laskin.bsky.social At the moment I'm a professional translator, somehow. Also I'm a former former academic and current high-level sage. All of my opinions belong to you. https://www.emilylaskin.com/
@abarnes3.bsky.social @abarnes3.bsky.social 
WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social 🇪🇪 Estonian blogger focusing on Russia/Ukraine | 18+ version: https://t.me/wartranslated | Glory to #Ukraine!
Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social Founding Director @perilresearch.bsky.social, testing ideas to prevent violence & build social cohesion. Author, Man Up, Hate in the Homeland, The Extreme Gone Mainstream. 2025-27 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. New book on Gen Z & gender divides coming 2028.
DE-CONSPIRATOR @deconspirator.bsky.social DE-CONSPIRATOR is a Horizon Europe project at the forefront of the battle against Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI).
Learn more about us: https://deconspirator.eu/
Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral
markcarney.ca 
Danylo Korbabicz @danylokorbabicz.bsky.social 
Laura Dean 🇱🇻🇺🇦 @lauradean.bsky.social Associate Professor of Government & International Affairs and Director of the Human Trafficking Research Lab at Augustana University (she/her) 🇱🇻🇺🇦
Edward Walker @gnuggat.bsky.social Retired. 1993-2017 Exec Director of the Berkeley Program in Soviet/Post-Soviet Affairs, Adj Assoc Prof Political Science.
Framework @frame.work Remaking consumer electronics to respect people and the planet. 💻🪛
For support visit http://support.frame.work
@profeernesto1.bsky.social @profeernesto1.bsky.social 
Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social One of the best #migrationresearch centres in Europe. We celebrated our 30th birthday in 2023
Lisa Sundstrom @lisasundstrom.bsky.social UBC political scientist studying Russia, NGOs, democracy, human rights and gender politics. Posting about these and anything else that grabs my attention.
Sarah Wilson Sokhey @sarahwilsonsokhey.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., Pol. Science, Univ. Colorado Boulder, founding director of www.colorado.edu/research/studiolab
pol. economy, post-communism, central and eastern Europe, social policy & welfare state, local public goods provision in Ukraine
#UkraineisEurope
Nicolas Bouchet @nickbouchet.bsky.social German Marshall Fund Senior Visiting Fellow.
US foreign policy, democratization, democracy promotion, civil society. Throw in some Eastern Europe and Russia and we're mostly good to go.
Anatoly Reshetnikov @reshetnikov.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Webster University in Vienna. I am researching international politics of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and broader Eurasia. Associate editor at New Perspectives.
Jarrod Hayes @jarrodhayes.bsky.social IR prof, international security, climate change @UML by way of OU and GaTech. “known in the future as the Kris Kristofferson of IR.” Queens of Scotland dad. “undertones that promote extreme feminism” Fulbright/NSF scholar 2024/2025
Natalia Forrat @nataliaforrat.bsky.social Comments and opinions are my own. Retweets and shares are not endorsements.
Achim Hurrelmann @achimhurrelmann.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Carleton University. Co-Director, Centre for European Studies. President of @ecsac.bsky.social. 
DOXA Journal in English @doxajournal.bsky.social Independent reportage and analysis from and on Russia. We cover everything from war and rising authoritarianism to inequality, discrimination, and the climate crisis. Subscribe to our English newsletter! https://doxaenglish.substack.com/subscribe
Erin Jenne @erinjenne.bsky.social Professor of International Relations at Central European University in Vienna, Austria, specializing in nationalism, populism, ethnic conflict, and foreign policy.
Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity @queensucsdd.bsky.social Interdisciplinary centre at Queen's University, Canada, aimed at advancing research and teaching on the intersections of #democracy and #diversity.
🌐 https://www.queensu.ca/csdd/
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
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Tena Prelec @tenaprelec.bsky.social Dr. of the semi-useless type. Anticorruption, Balkans, Russia, EU, Londongrad. Asst Prof at the University of Rijeka, honorary research fellow at Exeter & Sussex, BiEPAG member. WP leader, GEO-POWER-EU. Co-author of Indulging Kleptocracy (OUP, 2025)
Journal of International Relations and Development @jird-jour.bsky.social We are a generalist IR journal addressing contemporary world politics from a plurality of methodological and theoretical perspectives. JIRD is the official journal of the Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA).
Lanabi @lanabi.bsky.social Computational poli sci and IR
Fellow at LSE Methodology and teaching at LSE IR Dept
Political Communication, Dictators, Transitional Justice, Gender
Russia, Ukraine, the Balkans
lanabilalova.com
Oleksiy Bondarenko @oleksiybondarenko.bsky.social Political scientist - University of Birmingham | UniKent PhD | authoritarianism - informal institutions - neopatrimonialism - decentralization - political parties - Ukraine, Russia & post-communist politics |
CERiM CEEhub - Grounded knowledge for challenging times @umceehub.bsky.social CERiM Central and Eastern Europe hub (CEEhub) brings together research, outreach and education on Central and Eastern Europe at @maastrichtu.bsky.social.
Learn more about our key areas of expertise: https://cerim.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ceehub
@daniellejprice.bsky.social @daniellejprice.bsky.social 
IRSEM @irsem.bsky.social Institut de recherche stratégique de l'Ecole militaire (ministère des Armées, France) | Institute for Strategic Research (Ministry for Armed Forces, France)
Jess Pearson @jesspearson.bsky.social Historian of Modern France and Decolonization | Author of The Colonial Politics of Global Health (Harvard, 2018) | Associate Prof. of History @ Macalester College
Mila Dragojević @milals.bsky.social Poltical scientist, nationalism, poltical violence, memory politics, immigration, Balkans.
Caress Schenk @cschenk.bsky.social Political ethnographer in Kazakhstan. Migration. State-society relations in Eurasia. Informality. Identity. Author: Why Control Immigration?
Dimitri Algret Minic @dimitrialgretminic.bsky.social Scientific Director, Russia/Eurasia Observatory @IFRI | Historian of IR & Russia, PhD (Sorbonne) | Author: Russian Strategic Thought & Culture
Theodora Dragostinova @theodorad.bsky.social Historian & professor @Ohio State.
Books on Eastern Europe & the Balkans: nationalism, migration, borderlands, Cold War culture. Current work on post-1918 divided families & displaced children.
2025 ACLS Fellow.
Nicole M Butkovich Kraus @drnicolekraus.bsky.social Sociologist of xenophobia, forced migration, class/race/gender, rurality, and Russia. #FirstGen UW-Madison PhD 🦡 Personal account
Lawrence Markowitz @lawrencemarkowitz.bsky.social Professor of Political Science @ Rowan University. Interested in state building, political violence, global security, Central Asia / Eurasia.- A Ángel Torres Adán @angeltorresadan.bsky.social Research fellow at the Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (Bratislava🇸🇰). PhD in Politics (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Researching individual geopolitical preferences in post-communist Europe and beyond.
Nick Vant (Reuters) @nickvant.bsky.social Reuters Producer
Ex-researcher @ M&C Saatchi World Services. KCL War Studies grad (MA Int’l Conflict Studies)
Views my own.
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)
Europe-Asia Studies @europe-asia.bsky.social Since 1949, the principal academic journal in the world focusing on history + current political-social-economic affairs in Russia, Eastern Europe, Eurasia.
Central Asia-Caucasus Institute (CACI) @caci-silkroad.bsky.social Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center. Research on Central Asia, Caucasus, and Turkey (AFPC and ISDP Sweden).
https://www.silkroadstudies.org/
Matthew Frear @mattchik.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Leiden University. Russian and Eurasian Studies, including 🇧🇾🇺🇦
Nino Lezhava @ninolezhava.bsky.social Research Analyst, Lecturer, and Freelance Publisher specializing in the Black Sea Security, South Caucasus Dynamics, Connectivity, and Euro-Atlantic Relations.
Canadian Slavonic Papers @canslavpapers.bsky.social Canadian Slavonic Papers, founded in 1956, is a quarterly, interdisciplinary journal of the Canadian Association of Slavists, publishing in English and French.
Ivan Fomin @fomin-i.bsky.social Russian politics expert, semiotician, discourse analyst, head of @ideasforrussia.bsky.social at the Boris Nemtsov Foundation, teaching at Nemtsov program at Charles University, Democracy Fellow @cepa.bsky.social
Links: bento.me/fomin-i
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty [Unofficial] @rferl.org.web.brid.gy Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is an international media organization headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, and Washington, D.C. RFE/RL’s mission is to promote […]
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Farida Rustamova @faridaily.bsky.social all about Russian politics | 'Vlast' newsletter about Russian power | ex-BBC Russian, Meduza, RBC
Sanja Vico @sanjavico.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Exeter | Collaborator, LSE | Research & teach digital media in contexts of migration, identity, nationalism, post-conflict justice & peacebuilding | Mixed-method research | Londoner
UChicago Center for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies @ceeres-uchicago.bsky.social The Center for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Chicago.
ceeres.uchicago.edu
Inna Shtakser @innash.bsky.social I am a historian of social movements in the Russian empire and an author of Palgrave published The Making of Jewish Revolutionaries in the Pale of Settlement: Community and Identity During the Russian Revolution and Its Immediate Aftermath, 1905–07.
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.
A.S. Paglayan @aspaglayan.bsky.social Prof. Paglayan at UCSanDiego; Non-Resident Fellow at CGDev.
Author of "Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education."
I write and teach about politics and education.
https://www.amazon.com/Raised-Obey-Education-Princeton-Economic/dp/069126127X/
RUSI @rusi.bsky.social Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. Founded in 1831, RUSI is the oldest defence and security think tank in the world.
Website 💻: https://rusi.org/
WhatsApp 📱: https://bit.ly/4h0M5FQ
@stevhutch.bsky.social @stevhutch.bsky.social 
@florian-toepfl.bsky.social @florian-toepfl.bsky.social Professor of Political Communication with a Focus on Eastern Europe and the Post-Soviet Region, PI of ERC consolidator project RUSINFORM on Russia's informational influence abroad. All opinions private.
Journal of Disaster Studies @jds-disasters.bsky.social Official BlueSky account of the Journal of Disaster Studies, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
https://www.pennpress.org/journals/journal/journal-of-disaster-studies/
Adrian Zenz @adrianzenz.bsky.social Director in China Studies, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Member, European Commission Expert Group on Forced Labor. Research: Xinjiang, Tibet, ILO, state-imposed forced labor, OSINT. https://victimsofcommunism.org/leader/adrian-zenz-phd