Leonardo Martinez-Diaz @leonardom-d.bsky.social I lead the Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics program @carnegieendow; we work on climate mobility, clean energy supply chains & study global climate activism. Fmr. #climatefinance head @ Office of Special Presidential Envoy for Climate
Corey Hinderstein @coreyah.bsky.social Talk to me about British quiz shows, podcasts, Mets, Caps, gymnastics, F1 (but not on Netflix), nukes, cozy cooking shows, and decaf melanges. She/Her.
Ash in China @ashinchina.bsky.social That guy who worked at Geely
Unofficial Hangzhou tourism board
Accidental outdoor content creator
国内平台就是阿什Ride
Alexander Thompson @thompsonreports.bsky.social Journalist in Central Asia
Journaliste en Asie centrale
Журналист в Центральной Азии
thompsonreports.com
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.
The RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social The RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asia Studies in Global Conversation
Jeffrey Prescott @jeffreyprescott.bsky.social Senior fellow @carnegieendowment.org. Former US Ambassador to the UN in Rome, State, NSC, WH. Personal account.
Dilmurad Yusupov @dyusupov.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow at Tokyo College, University of Tokyo advocating for disability inclusion and civil society development in #Uzbekistan and Central Asia.
More at dilmurad.me
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
The Eurasian Climate Brief @eurasianclimate.bsky.social Your climate podcast on a part of the world where environmental news is at best underreported and at worst a crime.
Hosted by @boris101.bsky.social & Angelina Davydova.
▶️ https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-eurasian-climate-brief/id159265549 ◀️
Nadine Godehardt @godehardt.bsky.social China | Connectivity | Political Thinking | Critical Geopolitics | German Institute for International and Security Politics (SWP Brussels) | Love running | Usual disclaimers
Sam Breazeale @sambreazeale.bsky.social Editor of Novaya Gazeta Europe’s international edition. Previously @meduza.io. Based in Riga, Latvia. Contact: s.breazeale@novayagazeta.eu- G Giulia 施朱丽 @giuliasciorati.bsky.social
Agnieszka Pikulicka @aga-pik.bsky.social Journalist focusing on Eastern Europe & Central Asia | Founder of Turan Tales | Author of "Nowy Uzbekistan" (in PL) | Words: Reuters, AJE, AP, the Guardian, FP
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
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)
Dr Rashid Gabdulhakov @plovism.bsky.social Assist. prof. in the Netherlands. Social Media, FIMI, Propaganda.
plovism.com
Tom Hazell @thomashazell.bsky.social DPhil/PhD in Politics @ Oxford. Authoritarianism, bureaucracy, and local politics + Kazakhstan + computational social science. https://t-hazell.github.io/.
Irina Matvienko @irinauz.bsky.social Gender expert, journalist from #Uzbekistan, Central Asia. Change maker ✊ #Chevening Alumni (LSE). Feminist activist and founder of Nemolchi.uz
Eva Xiao @fteva.bsky.social Data & 📝 @financialtimes.com 📍NYC
Previously @wsj.com, @afpfr.bsky.social covering China
✉️ eva.xiao@ft.com
📱 Signal: @evax.17
Kamila Smagulova @kamilask.bsky.social PhDing in history, Leiden University
Colonial history | Civic activism | Anti-nuclear movements in Kazakhstan
#peacemovementsproject
Aya Adachi @ayaadachi.bsky.social 
Henning Hoff @henninghoff.bsky.social Executive editor INTERNATIONALE POLITIK QUARTERLY @ipq.bsky.social / Editor-at-Large @internationalepolitik.de, published by the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP); International Fellow @congeostrategy.bsky.social; lapsed Londoner.
Carnegie Russia Eurasia @carnegierussia.bsky.social Latest insights from the Global Think Tank’s experts on Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia. Part of @CarnegieEndowment.org
RT ≠ endorsement.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Chong Ja Ian @chongjaian.bsky.social Political scientist from 🇸🇬. Works on security & foreign policy in NE & SE, major power competition. AcademiaSG co-editor. Non-Resident Scholar, Carnegie China. Currently teaches at the National University of Singapore. Comments mine alone.
Nargis Kassenova @nargiskassenova.bsky.social A Central Asian/Central Asianist currently living in Cambridge, MA.
Katya Andrusz @katyaandrusz.bsky.social Communicating for democracy and the rights of all, now head of communications at ecdc.europa.eu │ Previously odihr.osce.org │Disambiguation: UK/DE national │ Usual caveats apply
Andrew S. Weiss @andrewsweiss.bsky.social Vice President for Studies & James Family Chair, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Author, ACCIDENTAL CZAR: THE LIFE AND LIES OF VLADIMIR PUTIN
Usual RT cavet
andrewweiss.me
Syinat Sultanalieva @syinats.bsky.social Central Asia Researcher @HRW.org [Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan];
PhD (#nomadityofbeing); Writer [sci-fi]. Opinions are my own.
Farida Rustamova @faridaily.bsky.social all about Russian politics | 'Vlast' newsletter about Russian power | ex-BBC Russian, Meduza, RBC
Tobias Scholz @tobischolz.bsky.social South Asia researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin | @swp-asia.bsky.social & @swp-berlin.org
🔗 https://www.swp-berlin.org/wissenschaftler-in/tobias-scholz
@emiltair.bsky.social @emiltair.bsky.social 
The Diplomat @thediplomat.com The premier international affairs magazine for the Asia-Pacific, covering politics, defense and society from China and Kazakhstan to Myanmar and Australia. thediplomat.com
Carnegie Europe @carnegieeurope.bsky.social The go-to source for European foreign policy analysis. Part of @CarnegieEndowment.org, the Global Think Tank.
Eurasianet @eurasianet.bsky.social Critical perspectives and on-the-ground reporting from the #Caucasus and #CentralAsia, with analyses you won't find elsewhere: 🔗 https://eurasianet.org/
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
Jon Hillman @hillmanje.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations. Former advisor to Secretaries of Commerce, State, and USTR. Author, THE DIGITAL SILK ROAD: http://bit.ly/ChinaDSR
Pierre Dubouchet @pierredub.bsky.social Conseiller politique - France OTAN
Samuel Doveri Vesterbye @samueljsdv.bsky.social Director of European Neighbourhood Council | Author of Security Threats along EU’s 🇪🇺 Eastern Flanks (Palgrave: London) | #CentralAsia #Caucasus #Türkiye #MENA | Independence | Danish 🇩🇰🇪🇺 & Italian 🇮🇹🇪🇺|
Vladislav Son @vladislavson.bsky.social Publisher at Vlast
Charlie Hancock @hancock2001.bsky.social Opinion Editor at The Moscow Times – Pitch to c.hancock@themoscowtimes.com | Also studying MA IR&War at KCL and writing "Crisis Europa" Substack on European security | Ex-Bloomberg | My Views | Also on bird app, trying to post here more
William Yang @williamyang120.bsky.social Senior North East Asia Analyst at @crisisgroup.org
Foreign correspondent covering East Asia in my previous life.
Email: wyang@crisisgroup.org
M.E. Sarotte @sarotte.bsky.social Author of NOT ONE INCH: AMERICA, RUSSIA, AND THE MAKING OF POST-COLD WAR STALEMATE
Foreign-language editions now in press/in print, including German: NICHT EINEN SCHRITT WEITER NACH OSTEN (Not One Step to the East), C.H. Beck, 2023
Irna Hofman @irnahofman.bsky.social Rural Central Asia | Tajikistan | Global China | Critical agrarian studies | Everyday geopolitics | Ethnography | Labour | Cotton | Running |
@unileiden.bsky.social https://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/ihofman.html
Zaur Shiriyev @zaurshiriyev.bsky.social Nonresident scholar @carnegieendowment.org Senior Associate Research Fellow at ISPI. Scholar-practitioner on the Caucasus & Türkiye; energy & regional security. Literature & nonfiction enthusiast, no hierarchy.
Thomas de Waal @tomdewaal.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Europe, all things Caucasus, Eastern Europe, Black Sea. Also Russian poetry. 
Dionis Cenusa @dioniscenusa.bsky.social Risk Analyst, Assoc. Expert: @EESC_LT; @Expert_Grup; ex-@CEPS_thinktank; FP/Risk&Crisis/security/sanctions/energy/CIP/EU-Eurasia-Russia-China-GlobalSouth
Eva Seiwert @evaseiwert.bsky.social IR & China l Senior Analyst @MERICS l Prev.: Managing Editor @9DASHLINE, Postdoc @FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. Pre-order my book “The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and China’s Vision of International Relations”: https://shorturl.at/VEUlf.
Hanna Notte @hannanotte.bsky.social Russia | Director for Eurasia @JamesMartinCNS | Snr Associate @csiserep | Fellow @kennaninstitute | Book: WE SHALL OUTLAST THEM | http://hannanotte.com | Berlin-based
@victoriaclement.bsky.social @victoriaclement.bsky.social 
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.
@syerkes.bsky.social @syerkes.bsky.social 
Iikka Korhonen @iikkakorhonen.bsky.social Head of BOFIT (Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies), not representing the official views of my employer, RTs not endorsements
https://t.co/E0YqzEKBp7
Nazerke Mukhamediya @mukhamedian.bsky.social researcher, Central Asian,
currently working on successions, regimes, and foreign policy of CA
Tlegen Kuandykov @tlegen.bsky.social Program Coordinator at CAPS Unlock
Nathan Attrill @nathanattrill.bsky.social Senior Analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute | Editor of ASPI’s ‘State of the Strait’ - https://stateofthestrait.substack.com
Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) @cessnews.bsky.social Central Eurasia in Focus: Advancing Research, Building Community
Carnegie India @carnegieindia.bsky.social Carnegie India produces high-quality research about critical national, regional, and global issues. RT ≠ endorsement.
Lucas Daley @lucasdaley.bsky.social 
Sophia Yan @sophiayan.bsky.social Telegraph Senior Foreign Correspondent | Marie Colvin Award Winner | Posts: 🌍🌏🌎🎹🎶🥃🍜🧘🏻♀️| Now: IST Then: TPE PEK HKG TYO NYC DCA HNL
Dima @solaireastora.bsky.social i have opinions
Alex Colville @colvap.bsky.social Chinese AI researcher @ChinaMediaProject. Some words ft. @Economist, @FT, @thewirechina, @thechinaproject(RIP). Still recovering from zero-Covid.
Roli Asthana @ra-london.bsky.social Economist
Peter Leonard @peterleonard1.bsky.social Journalist, my writing can currently be found at havli.substack.com
Sam Bresnick @sambresnick.bsky.social Research Fellow @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social
China + Emerging Tech
Alice Su @aliceysu.bsky.social Covering China and Taiwan & co-hosting Drum Tower pod @TheEconomist. Former Beijing bureau chief @latimes, previously in the Middle East. alicesu@economist.com
Niginakhon Saida @niginakhon.bsky.social Central Asian(ist). PhDing in memory studies. Researcher and writer. Sometimes a journalist. (Gender issues, Islam, memory and identity). My pronouns are u/uning
Erik Brown @erikbrown.bsky.social Kansan | Nonresident Researcher at Carnegie | Recently Fulbright at GPPi | critical & emerging tech, digital infrastructure, and econ competition | Posts my own
Alper Coşkun @iacoskun.bsky.social Senior Fellow @Carnegie Endowment DC
Adjunct Prof. @Georgetown University
Former diplomat @MFA Türkiye
Sheena Chestnut Greitens @sheenagreitens.bsky.social Associate Professor at UT-Austin. I study authoritarian politics, security, & East Asia, especially China and Korea.
Non-resident scholar at Carnegie Endowment & U.S. Army War College, editor of the Texas National Security Review. Views my own.
@pannierb.bsky.social @pannierb.bsky.social 
Asel Doolotkeldieva @adoolotkeldieva.bsky.social Protest & contentious politics. Autocracy, populism.
Geopolitics, critical raw materials, extractive industries.
Knowledge production, Central Asia
asel.doolotkeldieva@gmail.com
Mihra Rittmann @mihrarittmann.bsky.social Senior Central Asia Researcher / Human Rights Watch
Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social BBC Russia Editor, Moscow
max seddon @maxseddon.bsky.social moscow bureau chief @financial times. in soviet russia, news reports you: max.seddon@ft.com
Ilya Lozovsky @ichbinilya.bsky.social Writer and senior editor at OCCRP. Investigative journalism, democracy, corruption, US politics, Europe and Eurasia. More fun than this profile IRL. Currently in Amsterdam!
Kirill Shamiev @kirland.bsky.social Civ-mil, public policy & RU politics. PhD in PoliSci. Fellow at @ECFR. Tweets in personal capacity only. Shamiev.org
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.
Alun Thomas @alunrthomas.bsky.social Associate Professor of Eurasian Studies at University of Staffordshire. Interested in Central Asia and Russia. Chair of Staffs UCU branch.
Eric Zhang @ericsiyizhang.bsky.social PhD Candidate | Universiteit van Amsterdam
Research Fellow | LeidenAsiaCentre
Digital technologies & foreign policy
EU, Russia, China
Industrial Policy| Standarisation
Computational methods
Sergey Utkin @usv1980.bsky.social International relations
Ross James Gildea @rjg77.bsky.social Lecturer in IR/Politics (Trinity College Dublin)
DPhil International Relations (Oxford)
Former Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University
Former Researcher at Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (Oxford)
Vyacheslav Abramov @vvabramov.bsky.social Central Asian editor at OCCRP, founder of Kazakh media Vlast
China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net https://chinadigitaltimes.net/ – a Berkeley-based nonprofit publishing news and translations focused on human rights and freedom of expression in China
ChinaFile @chinafile.bsky.social Online magazine from Asia Society
Reporting, Analysis, Photography, Video and Conversation on China
China Media Project @chinamediaproject.bsky.social The CMP is an independent research project studying the Chinese media landscape within the PRC and globally, as well as the CCP's media and political discourse.
Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social Watching 🇪🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 from Berlin. Try my newsletter: noahbarkin.substack.com
Emily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social NPR White House correspondent. 10 years in China and Taiwan. Author of Let Only Red Flowers Bloom (Crown 2025) and forthcoming book on Syria (CGR 2026) https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/our-hearts-burned-for-home
James Miles @jarmiles.bsky.social China writer-at-large at The Economist
Joshua Keating @joshuakeating.bsky.social Foreign policy/national security reporter
Author of Invisible Countries
Here, there, everywhere
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 | 🇨🇦
Marius Fossum @mariusfossum.bsky.social Regional Representative in Central Asia at the Norwegian Helsinki Committee
Boris Schneider @boris101.bsky.social All things Europe @cleanenergywire.bsky.social
Co-host of @eurasianclimate.bsky.social podcast.
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Stephen Conlon @stephenconlon.bsky.social British Ambassador to Turkmenistan since 2023.
Previously in Brussels (EU & NATO); Lithuania; Finland and Sweden.
Views own, reposts & links ≠ endorsements.
Carnegie Politika @ceip-politika.bsky.social Latest insights from the top experts on Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia, part of @carnegieendowment.org
https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia
Jeff @jeffbell.bsky.social Into Central Asia, democracy, (anti-)kleptocracy, bikes, urbanism, and a touch of tech.
He/Him/Он/El
English/Russian/working on Spanish
Not here to take myself too seriously. Opinions are my own.
Sinan Ulgen @sinanulgen.bsky.social Former Turkish Diplomat, Director of Istanbul based EDAM think tank, senior fellow at Carnegie Europe