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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · Sep 19

⚡️NATO confirms Russian incursion into Estonian airspace, calls it "reckless."

"NATO responded immediately and intercepted the Russian aircraft. This is yet another example of reckless Russian behaviour and NATO’s ability to respond," NATO Spokesperson Allison Hart said.

BREAKING: 3 Russian MiG-31 jets violate Estonian airspace, Tallinn says

Estonia summoned Russia's charge d'affaires on Sept. 19 after three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets entered the Baltic nation's airspace for 12 minutes, the Foreign Ministry said.

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iROZHLAS.cz @irozhlas.cz · Jul 24

Za dva měsíce se otevře kus historie. 19. září 2025 v 10.00 v přímém přenosu vysílání Českého rozhlasu se rozpečetí obálka s posledními slovy Tomáše Garrigua Masaryka. Text dopisu přečte Dagmar Hájková, historička z Masarykova ústavu a Archivu AV ČR. irozhl.as/wpP

Masaryk si nebral servítky, připomíná historička. Blíží se otevření obálky s jeho posledními slovy

„Masaryk si nebral v korespondencích, ale i normálně příliš servítky. Byl si vědom své úrovně a slovo hlupák se třeba v korespondenci s Edvardem Benešem vyskytuje často,“ říká historička Hájková.

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Johana Kłusek @klusek.bsky.social · Jul 22

I'm excited to be at #iccees2025 in London! We had a great debate on Eastern European national ideologies with @annaherran.bsky.social, Andreii Kepsha and Jakub Beneš on Monday. Three more days packed up with EE history and politics!

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Anna Herran @annaherran.bsky.social · Jul 23

looking forward to attending this later today!

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Anna Herran @annaherran.bsky.social · Jul 20

currently in London for #ICCEES2025 ! Looking forward to presenting tomorrow on how the Czechoslovak Communist Party appropriated, rejected, and eventually erased the holiday celebrating Czechoslovak Independence Day (October 28) in the immediate post WWII period 🇨🇿

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Anna Herran @annaherran.bsky.social · Jul 14

currently attending my very first Memory Studies Association Conference in Prague, aka the city that sparked my interest in memory studies! #msaPrague2025

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · Jun 21

⚡️ 'My husband is free' — Belarus opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky freed after US envoy visits Minsk.

Sergei Tikhanovsky was sentenced to 18 years in prison on politically motivated charges in 2021.

'My husband is free' — Belarus opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky freed after US envoy visits Minsk

Sergei Tikhanovsky was sentenced to 18 years in prison on politically motivated charges in 2021.

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · Jun 5

In a serious blow to scholars, the Russian authorities have outlawed the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) as an "undesirable organization." The designation poses legal risks for the organization's 3,200 members when researching in Russia. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Russia outlaws Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) as ‘undesirable organization’ — Meduza

Russia’s Justice Ministry has outlawed the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) as an “undesirable organization.”

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Rok Stergar @stergarr.bsky.social · Jun 4

This is German Kurrentschift. It says: Der Lehrkörper der allgemeinen Volksschule, Knabenbürgerschule u. Mädchenbürgerschule in Grulich; der Stadtrat und die Stadtsvertrertung der Stadtgemeinde Grulich.

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Anna Herran @annaherran.bsky.social · Jun 4

Thank you so much!

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Anna Herran @annaherran.bsky.social · Jun 4

anyone out there who can read what this says? Or at least what language it is in? (German??) Any help would be appreciated

For context, these are from a booklet from Žamberk (Eastern Bohemia) in which citizen groups and state official swore their loyalty to the Czechoslovak Republic in 1936

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Anna Herran @annaherran.bsky.social · Apr 25

Currently in Cambridge for #cbse2025 looking forward to presenting my paper on the celebrations of 90th anniversary of Estonian Independence on Saturday 🇪🇪

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · Jan 16

Czech martyr Jan Palach’s enduring legacy, 50 years today after his self-immolation english.radio.cz/czech-martyr...

Czech martyr Jan Palach’s enduring legacy, 50 years after his self-immolation

Fifty years ago on January 16, a young Czech university student named Jan Palach doused himself in petrol and set himself alight at the top of Prague’s Wenceslas Square…

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Anna Herran @annaherran.bsky.social · Jan 15

Big thanks to the Toronto Estonian community for featuring my piece on the integration of Setomaa into Interwar Estonia 🇪🇪
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Making Estonia, Shaping Setomaa: the Creation of Interwar Estonia and its Impact on the Southeastern Borderland - Eesti Elu

In 2020, Värska unveiled a monument to the soldiers of the Estonian War of Independence (1918-1920) in its Freedom Square. As the inscription on its base indicates, this monument was intended to be pl...

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Jelena Subotic @jelenasubotic.bsky.social · Dec 10

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Now with a volume, issue and page numbers in Millennium. @chrsjcksn.bsky.social and I wrote about the craziness of Skopje's faux neoclassical revamp, a huge statue of Alexander the Great, copy of Arc de Triomphe and things that are supposed to look like... Venice? It's a riot. Pics 👇

The Ontological Security-Seeking Paradox: Domestic and International Effects of Public Architecture in North Macedonia’s ‘Skopje 2014’ Project - Christopher M. Jackson, Jelena Subotic, 2024

This article theorises the relationship between material environment and state ontological security by analysing how public architecture is used to defend, asse...

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Anna Herran @annaherran.bsky.social · Dec 7

rare finds at the secondhand bookshop or a sign I should start learning a Baltic language soon? 🤔 sadly there wasn’t one for Estonian

Two white grammar books for learning Latvian and Lithuanian

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Fredrik Eriksson @fredrikeriksson.bsky.social · Dec 6

Today it is Finland’s independence day. Lit candles in windows is a somber reminder that independence is not to be taken for granted.

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Mark Baker @markbakerprague.bsky.social · Nov 25

Not exactly traditional, but not exactly a tourist trap either. This article sheds a little more light on the ‘trdelník’ mystery :)) www.czechology.com/trdelnik-his...

Trdelník – History and Recipe

Trdelník is a traditional Transylvanian-Hungarian dessert that arrived to the regions of eastern Moravia in the 18th - 19th century. Let's talk about its history, use in Czech folklore and I'll also s...

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Tomas Cvrcek @tomascvrcek.bsky.social · Nov 25

A new CfP for all those interested in the #econhist of Central & Eastern Europe in the long 20th century. To be held at IOS @leibniz-ios.de in lovely Regensburg, 26-27 June 2025. Submission deadline: 15th Dec 2024. #econsky

Call for Papers for a conference on interwar economic history of Cetnral and Eastern Europe, held in Regensburg, Germany, in June 2025.

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Týdeník Respekt @respektcz.bsky.social · Nov 23

Ivan Trojan a Erik Tabery: Češi a Slováci si politicky nikdy nebyli dál, společensky je to naopak.

🎧 Debata Respektu o tom, jak se vyvíjel vztah Čechů a Slováků od Sametové revoluce a jak si dnes můžeme vzájemně pomáhat.

Ivan Trojan a Erik Tabery: Češi a Slováci si politicky nikdy nebyli dál, společensky je to naopak

Debata Respektu o tom, jak se vyvíjel vztah Čechů a Slováků od Sametové revoluce a jak si dnes můžeme vzájemně pomáhat

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · Nov 22

Twenty years after the Orange Revolution, as Ukrainians continue to resist Russia’s full-scale war of aggression, many are looking back on the anniversary of that uprising as the first battle in their enduring fight for the nation’s independence.

'It was my first revolution' — Ukrainians look back on the Orange Revolution 20 years later

Two weeks before Ukraine's pivotal 2004 presidential election, 22-year-old filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk found herself at the center of a heated exchange during a trip to Moscow. The upcoming elections were ...

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Peripheral Histories? @peripheralhist.bsky.social · Nov 12

Then we have a post from Leah Johnson, in which she presents her fascinating oral history interviews with members of the Estonian American National Council who engaged in political activism throughout the second half of the twentieth century www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/far-awa...

Far Away but Never Powerless: Oral Histories of Estonian American Activists

Leah Johnson“We all grew up with the history of Estonia, the injustice of that history… what the Soviets did. And as I was growing up, there was a constant need to explain to people, what’s Estonia? W...

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · Nov 21

The Berliner Zeitung has been running a number of pieces along these lines attacking the idea that the GDR was a dictatorship and claiming that this is part of some kind of new Historikerstreit. There is a lot of sleight of hand going on here...

A tweet from the Berliner Zeitung promoing an article: Historikerstreit, Teil 3: Warum es fatal ist, die DDR als #Diktatur abzutun. Die Etikettierung der #DDR als Diktatur, so unser Autor, blockiert neue historische Erkenntnisgewinnung. Und nicht nur das: Sie befördert den Rechtsradikalismus.

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Anna Herran @annaherran.bsky.social · Nov 20

One of them seems to be Vladimír Baran, mayor of the village of Smilno in North Eastern Slovakia who seems to have indeed collected money for Kursk back in September. spravy.pravda.sk/domace/clano... No idea about the others

Obec na východe zbiera peniaze pre ľudí z Kurskej oblasti. Kritizuje zabíjanie Slovanov

Obec zároveň kritizuje českú iniciatívu na nákup munície pre Ukrajinu.

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Peripheral Histories? @peripheralhist.bsky.social · Nov 20

Our workshop on using archives and libraries in Eastern Europe & Eurasia is on 6 December 14:00-15:30 UK time. Join us to learn about conducting research in Central and Southeast Europe, Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, the Baltic States, the Caucasus & Central Asia. All welcome! forms.gle/hAC9jrrsdYbj...

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