Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social Historian of American responses to the Holocaust, author of "Rescue Board" (Doubleday, 2018). Love cats, books, TV, travel, teachers, fighting for a better world. Opinions mine.
Jane Bradley @bradleyjane.bsky.social UK Investigative Correspondent for The New York Times. Not from New York City from (near) Rotherham.
Used to be mid-tier on Twitter. Don't know if I have the energy for another social media platform.
Elisabeth Braw @elisabethbraw.bsky.social Atlantic Council, Foreign Policy, Politico Europe. Author of the upcoming The Undersea War (John Murray & Basic Books this October). Geopolitics & globalisation/greyzone aggression/total defence/societal resilience. Own views
Derk Sauer @derksauer.bsky.social Founder The Moscow Times
Charlie English @charlieenglish1.bsky.social Writer of narrative non-fiction. Formerly Guardian foreign editor. Out now in the UK: The CIA Book Club. Coming to the US July 1.
Katerina Oikonomakou @katoiko.bsky.social Athens based journalist at https://insidestory.gr/, curious about everything, slow but persistent runner
Howard Amos @howardamos.bsky.social Author at @bloomscontinuum.bsky.social | Editor at @carnegieendowment.org | My book 'Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire' is out now! | Order here: https://linktr.ee/russiastartshere
Dr. Manisha Ganguly @manisha.bsky.social The Guardian's investigations correspondent & visual forensics lead. Currently writing a book. tech x conflict x human rights. friend to cats. manishaganguly.com
Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu Associate Professor, SWPS University. Welsh by birth. English by upbringing. Irish by design. Polish by choice. I am a lineman for the county.
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social Senior international correspondent at The Guardian. Author of the Secret Life of War. Orwell Prize winner.
María Ramírez @mariaramirez.bsky.social Journalist, writer. Deputy Managing Editor @eldiario.es. Contributor @theguardian.com. Long story as a reporter in New York, Brussels, Milan, Madrid and now Oxford, UK. @niemanfoundation.bsky.social @uchipolitics.bsky.social @columbiajournalism.bsky.social
Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social National Security Attorney, Comic Book Historian, University of Rochester Alum
John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social Former CIA clandestine service. Spycraft Entertainment, Atlantic Council, NAFO. Host of Mission implausible podcast. Friend of dogs everywhere. Jimothy welcome here!
Ben Quinn @benquinn75.bsky.social Guardian Political Correspondent
UK current affairs (with a fair bit on the Far Right, populism, disinfo)
Irish Londoner
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Sarah Whitmore @drsarahwhitmore.bsky.social Reader in Politics, Oxford Brookes University. Researching Ukrainian politics since 1998, current projects: defence reform; parliament@war. Lang: Ukr, Rus
Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social Human rights expert. Global authoritarianism, transnational repression, Turkey and Eurasia, academic freedom. Entirely personal account.
Zselyke Csaky @zecsaky.bsky.social Senior research fellow CER @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social. Mostly EU stuff, sprinkled with some democracy & Central Europe. Past lives Freedom House, EUI, Bloomberg.
Zsuzsanna Vegh @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social Political analyst | Hungary | Radical right + intl affairs & democracy | Working with GMF, ECFR | Views are my own
Paulina Milewska @pamilewska.bsky.social Lecturer and Malyi Fellow at University of Chicago | associate editor I•CONnect blog| NYU Fulbright and EUI alumna | ex Helsinki Foundation Poland, ECPMF & Gazeta Wyborcza | SLAPPs, EU law, media freedom | feminist
auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social Every system is a sensor if you hold it right.
Main arena, Baltics. 🇸🇪
mastodon.world/@auonsson , x.com/auonsson backup 🇸🇪
Charles Beaumont @aspyalone.bsky.social I write books about spies.
The Cipher Brief @thecipherbrief.bsky.social The Cipher Brief is the only media outlet focused exclusively on bringing you a higher level of confidence around national security events via news, analysis, and interviews with government and private sector leaders.
Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social Investigative Reporter @ TPM | Author | Words In: The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, The Atlantic
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Graham Snowdon @gsnowdon.bsky.social Guardian Weekly editor | Perpetually recovering #lufc fan
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social Live straight out of Bucha 🇺🇦
Pre-order my new book "The Land of Tears and Hope": https://geni.us/tearsandhope
Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social Historian of Poland and CEE in the world based in Warsaw, Poland. Might be the odd political skeet here and there. Private views
The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com Independent English-language journalism in Ukraine
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Nick Ames @nickames82.bsky.social European sports correspondent, the Guardian
Alessio Mamo @alessiomamo.bsky.social World Press Photo award-winner photographer based between Sicily and Middle East. He covers issues related to refugees and social-political affairs.
Alessio is a regular contributor to The Guardian.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
@christogrozev.bsky.social @christogrozev.bsky.social
Robert Tait @rstait.bsky.social Guardian journalist in Washington DC. Used to be Tehran, Jerusalem, Istanbul, Prague and a few other places. Tired but not yet clapped out.
Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social Berlin correspondent, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/deborah-cole
deborah.cole(at)theguardian.com
Sam Jones @swajones.bsky.social Madrid correspondent for the Guardian. Concebollista.
Volha Charnysh @vcharnysh.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT. Book: “Uprooted: How post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe.” I write and teach about the historical political economy of migration, conflict, and state building. http://charnysh.net/
Pjotr Sauer @pjotrsauer.bsky.social Reporter covering Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia for The Guardian. Write to me: pjotr.sauer@theguardian.com
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social Paris-based writer of European allsorts at the Guardian
George Barros @georgewbarros.bsky.social Russia Team & GEOINT Team Lead at the Institute for the Study of War. I study war, 🇺🇦, 🇷🇺, & 🇧🇾. Maker of maps and fan of GIS. Led grassroots effort to provide Ukraine Javelins in 2014. W&M alum.
https://understandingwar.org/press-media/staff-bios/g
Ben Smith @semaforben.bsky.social Semafor EIC, author of "Traffic" out May 2
Dmitri Alperovitch @dmitri.silverado.org Geopolitics, Russia, China, Cyber
Chairman @silverado.org
Author of WorldOnTheBrink.com
Host GeopoliticsDecanted.com podcast
Founder Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS
Co-Founder CrowdStrike
@DAlperovitch elsewhere
Bianna Golodryga @biannagolodryga.bsky.social CNN Senior Global Affairs Analyst, Anchor.
Wife, mom, stepmom, proud immigrant, Houston, TX ❤️🤘
Jakub Janovsky @rebel44cz.bsky.social Military history, SCW, OSINT, space, electric cars. NATO/EU/Ukraine supporter. Oryx Blog Administrator.
http://ko-fi.com/rebel44cz
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
Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer for European Politics and History at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement.
Also to be found at @APHClarkson
https://www.ullstein.de/werke/die-macht-der-diaspora/hardcover/978354910
Jane Lytvynenko @janelytv.bsky.social Reporting on tech and conflict for NBC News.
Previously WSJ, Harvard Shorenstein Center, BuzzFeed News.
Email: jane.lytvynenko@nbcuni.com
Signal: janelytv.74
Currently based in New York.
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social Visual Investigations at The New York Times
Sam Greene @samagreene.bsky.social Professor of Russian Politics, King's College London. Political sociologist. Progressive. Co-author, Putin v the People. 🇬🇧/🇺🇸
Mike Eckel @mikeeckel.bsky.social Opponent of Quiet Desperation. Contains Multitudes. In Search Of Meanness Or Sublimity. Former Moscow Correspondent. Vladivostok Fanboy. Chaotic Good. @RFERL
Matthew Bodner @bodner.bsky.social NBC News international reporter. Moscow bureau exile. Now in London. Tweets on Russia, etc. Former Space Camp shuttle commander. Sailor.
Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social Professor, Johns Hopkins SAIS. Study very bad things that happen to people who don't deserve it, write books, overuse sarcasm. Lviv-Haifa-Jerusalem-Madison-New Haven-Washington-Bologna.
Fabrice Deprez @fabricedeprez.bsky.social Journalist covering #Ukraine with the Financial Times / Also seen in La Croix, Les Jours, Foreign Policy & others
Olivia Kortas @oliviakortas.bsky.social Ukraine Correspondent for Die Zeit
Olga Tokariuk @olgatokariuk.bsky.social Academy Associate, Chatham House. Journalist, disinfo researcher, occasionally lecturer, speaker and moderator. Proud Ukrainian, currently in the UK
Mathieu von Rohr @mathieuvonrohr.bsky.social Journalist @DerSPIEGEL • Ressortleiter Ausland • International Editor • 🇨🇭 in 🇩🇪
Anastasia Rodi (exMagazova) 🌻 @anastasiarodi.bsky.social Journalist | PhD Candidate in Political Science, HU Berlin.
Building bridges between 🇺🇦&🇩🇪.
Ex-corr for DW, RFERL. From Crimea.
Board @n-ost.bsky.social
Maria Avdeeva @mariainkharkiv.bsky.social Security Expert | Amplifying Ukraine's Global Voice | Former Twitter Enthusiast
Gulliver Cragg @gullivercragg.bsky.social Correspondent for France 24 in Kyiv, Ukraine since 2013. Born in London.
Stephane Siohan @stefsiohan.bsky.social Reporter in Ukraine since 2013 for Libération @libe @lesoir. Based in Kyiv. Author of a book about Zelensky. Writing about Ukraine, Central & Eastern Europe + Black Sea space. FR, EN & UA. Love creative docs
Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social Czar for life of all Russians. Master Strategist. Tea connoisseur. Author. Window installer. Wanted in 123 countries. Parody, apparently.
War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social Experience. Conflict. Commentary.
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Paul Gogo @paugog.bsky.social Journaliste basé à Moscou. Ex corres en Ukraine.
Correspondant Ouest-France, la Libre Belgique, BFM... en Russie.
"Moscou parano" aux éditions du Rocher le 11 mars
paulgogo2@gmail.com
Sergey Radchenko @radchenko.bsky.social Historian of the Cold War and after. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. The author of “To Run the World.”
Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua Official English page of Ukrainian media outlet "Ukrainska Pravda"
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/
Alec Luhn @alecluhn.com Environment reporter @NewScientist.com | Kavli, Schmidt & Covering Climate Now winner 🏆 | 2x Emmy nominee | non-beefeater 🚫🐄 | icemushroom.substack.com ✉️
Медиазона @zona.media Независимое новостное медиа
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Evgeny Feldman @evgenyfeldman.bsky.social photographer & photo editor | часто пишу про американскую политику | rtwt≠согласие
Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social Senior International Correspondent for The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper. Now based in London, after stops in Moscow, Beijing and the Middle East. Author of The New Cold War (the book, not the thing).
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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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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
Kirill Shamiev @kirland.bsky.social Civ-mil, public policy & RU politics. PhD in PoliSci. Fellow at @ECFR. Tweets in personal capacity only. Shamiev.org
Keir Giles @keirgiles.bsky.social Twitter refugee #1,383,497
Samantha Berkhead @samberkhead.bsky.social Editor-in-chief @themoscowtimes.com 🪆
Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social Journalist; author of Butler to the World and Moneyland
Georgi Kantchev @georgikantchev.bsky.social Wall Street Journal correspondent based in Berlin | Bulgarian abroad | georgi.kantchev@wsj.com |
Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social Deputy director, Centre for European Reform, London @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social . Supporter of democracy, the rule of law, the EU & Ukraine. Opponent of authoritarianism, corruption & Putin's Russia.
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
Nicole Grajewski @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Sciences Po CERI | Associate with Harvard’s Managing the Atom | working on nuclear issues involving Russia and Iran | author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine (OUP/Hurst)
Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social International Center for Ukrainian Victory (ICUV), Anti-corruption Action Center (AntAC). Kyiv, Ukraine.
Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social Freelance journalist living and working in Kyiv, Ukraine
BBC local radio freelance reporter, sometimes heard on LBC radio
Very biased: against fascist and authoritarian regimes; for democracy, rule of law, and human rights.
Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social Dad. Husband. Vet. Ex NSC/White House Staff.
Daria Kaleniuk @dkaleniuk.bsky.social 11 years in anticorruption in Ukraine, Executive Director of Anticorruption Action Centre, antac.org.ua/en
1.5 years in advocating globally for Ukrainian victory, Co-founder of International Centre for Ukrainian Victory, https://ukrainianvictory.org/
Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social Prof of Totalitarian Studies @ Pilecki Institute, Warsaw/Fellow @ Centre for International and Defence Policy, Ontario | FrHistS | Author of "Z Generation: Russia's Fascist Youth” - get it @ http://linktr.ee/igarner | 🇨🇦
Oskar Górzyński @oskargorzynski.bsky.social US Correspondent for the Polish Press Agency (PAP). Twitter refugee. Currently not big on hot takes
Gustav C Gressel @gresselgustav.bsky.social Security, Defence, Europe; #MilSky
Mattia Nelles @mattian.bsky.social Politologe & Ukraine-Watcher. CEO & Co-Founder of the German-Ukrainian Bureau (Deutsch-Ukrainisches Büro (DUB)) gGmbH). Working on and in 🇺🇦 since 2014.
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
Dara Massicot @massdara.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Russia and Eurasia Program. I cover military issues in Russia and Eurasia.
POLITICO Europe @politico.eu Nobody knows politics and policy like we do.
Niels Ackermann @nielsack.bsky.social Documentary photographer, 14 years of work in Ukraine. Passionate about politics, technology, datascience and image of course. Co founder of swiss photo agency Lundi13.
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Ioulia Shukan @ishukan.bsky.social Assistant Professor, sociologist, specialist of Ukraine at University Paris Nanterre - L Pavel Lokshin @lokshin.bsky.social Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Caucasus, Central Asia. Mostly for Germany’s “Die Welt". 📍Zürich
max seddon @maxseddon.bsky.social moscow bureau chief @financial times. in soviet russia, news reports you: max.seddon@ft.com
Andriy Taranov @ataranov.bsky.social Media expert, member of the board @ Suspilne Ukraine Public Broadcasting Company
Paul Ronzheimer @ronzheimer.bsky.social Journalist
Olesya Khromeychuk @okhromeychuk.bsky.social Historian of East-Central Europe, PhD. Author of The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister (2022), ‘Undetermined’ Ukrainians (2013). Director of Ukrainian Institute London. www.olesyakhromeychuk.com
Roman Waschuk @waschukcan.bsky.social Recovering ex-Amb of 🇨🇦 to 🇺🇦🇷🇸🇲🇪🇲🇰
Now Business Ombudsman 🇺🇦 Бізнес-омбудсмен
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