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Franziska Davies @efdavies.bsky.social · 2d

But Miller is not anyone. Until 2022, he was among the internationally most renowned historians of imperial Russia, a respected colleague in Western academia.
Some reflections on Russo-centrism in academia, colonialism and how Western scholars failed Ukraine:
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Our colleague, the Kremlin apologist

Until Russia's full-scale invasion, Russian historian Alexei Miller was highly regarded in Western academia. Reflections on Russo-Centrism, colonialism and how Western scholars failed Ukraine.

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Franziska Davies @efdavies.bsky.social · 2d

Russia is seeking to legitimise its genocidal war against Ukraine through the construction of historical narratives. Among those supporting this effort is historian Alexei Miller, a professor of history in St. Petersburg and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Jan Rovny @jrovny.bsky.social · 2d

Many are concerned about the return of Babiš to the top of Czech politics. While the results of this weekend's Czech legislative election poses its concerns, I am an optimist. I think Babiš's victory is rather Pyrrhic. Here are some thoughts: blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

The 2025 Czech election – Andrej Babiš’s Pyrrhic victory

Andrej Babiš’s ANO won the 2025 Czech election on 3–4 October. Yet as Jan Rovny explains, Babiš will find it challenging to form a stable government.

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 5d

Arrived in Prague and sat down to sort through my ballot

Me: these are the worst elections I remember…

My mother: the worst elections are when there is a one party system and you can’t vote for anything else, but you have to turn up and vote anyway, because they surveil you

Me: ok, fair enough

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Erica Marat 🇺🇦 @ericamarat.bsky.social · 4d

My feed today

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Tata Chemia @tatach.bsky.social · 9d

Join Georgian immigrants on 4️⃣th October protest✊🏼 if you are nearby!

ძალა ერთობაშია • Strength is in unity!

Qarebi.Movement

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 10d

I'm finally looking forward to Russia's disinformation campaign no longer emailing us endless fake news videos about Moldova and Maia Sandu. Guess they won't be getting their bonuses
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pro-EU party in Moldova set to win vote mired in claims of Russian interference

The election was seen as critical for Moldova's EU path, and President Maia Sandu warned the country's future was in danger.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 11d

‘Before Bucha, there was Abkhazia.’ 32 yrs later, survivors of Russia’s war are waiting for justice. Women speak of systemic rape, describing patterns of perpetration typical across all documented Russian occupations, that remain unaccounted for and still ongoing
www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/...

‘Before Bucha in Ukraine, there was Abkhazia in Georgia’

Thirty years after the war in Georgia’s breakaway territory of Abkhazia, victims are still waiting for justice.

www.aljazeera.com

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Tata Chemia @tatach.bsky.social · 12d

32 years since the fall of Sokhumi.

These are just the part of russian warcrimes committed back from 1992/93 .
This is what russia did in our town in Gagra. There are so many more 💔

Never forget, never forgive!
Abkhazia is Georgia!

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 12d

🇬🇪 On Sept 27, 1993, Abkhaz separatists, backed by Russian forces, North Caucasus fighters & mercenaries, captured the city. By Sept 30, they occupied all of Abkhazia.

5,738 Georgian civilians were killed. Nearly 300,000 Georgians were forced from their homes.

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 13d

❗️ORTA is coming to Berlin in October with a performance that accounts for the immense cross-generational and environmental harm caused by Soviet nuclear testing in Qazaqstan

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 13d

New episode of YurtJurt podcast on decoloniality! with Intizor! A multi-disciplinary Uyghur artist!

Tune in here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 13d

Always so grateful to find the Sakha language as the Sakha letter in solidarity with Ukrainians under russian occupation is one of the most powerful pieces of writing I’ve read since the outbreak of the full-scale invasion. Link below, will read and quote from it again, again and again 🔥

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Philip Obaji Jr. @philipobaji.bsky.social · 16d

Russia is becoming more desperate in its war on Ukraine. Young Nigerian women are being recruited to build drones in a military-industrial compound 1,000km east of Moscow. The Nigerian education ministry’s website was hacked to promote this shady scheme.
www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlin...

INVESTIGATION: Road to Alabuga: Shady recruitment of young Nigerian women to Russia

Nigeria's education ministry tells PREMIUM TIMES its website was hacked to place the Alabuga advert on it.

www.premiumtimesng.com

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 19d

New episode of YurtJurt podcast just dropped!

Listen to me talking to Aysulu Toyshibek & hopefully you’d get the sound of the Issy Kol shore where we recorded this superb conversation (and many more conversations to come).

Subscribe to YurtJurt!

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...

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@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social · 21d

Please see the super line-up in our Autumn series of talks below 👇🏾 bsky.app/profile/iden...

Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 23d

Join us for our Autumn #IdentitiesEvents Series!

Register online:
www.eventbrite.com/c...

@uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social

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Russia-Ukraine Daily News @rvps2001.bsky.social · 25d

🇵🇱 Thousands of Poles are signing up for voluntary military training as Poland's army seeks to fill its ranks with professional and voluntary personnel amid escalating concerns over Russia's military aggression.

www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Fearful of Russian aggression, Poles flock to military training

More than 20,000 Poles signed up for voluntary military training in the first seven months of 2025 - in line with record levels last year.

www.reuters.com

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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 27d

The German Attorney General has searched the home of the chairperson of an association innocently called 'Peace Bridge War Victim Relief' for supporting Russian soldiers.The association's pro-Russian activities unite people from across the left and right fringes of the political spectrum in Germany.

Russische Einflussnahme - Eine deutsche Informantin des Kreml?

Weil ihr Verein "Friedensbrücke - Kriegsopferhilfe" pro-russische Kämpfer unterstützt haben soll, ermittelt der Generalbundesanwalt gegen Liane Kilinc. Recherchen von WDR, NDR, SZ und Monitor zeigen n...

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Kate Tsurkan @katetsurkan.bsky.social · 29d

The right wing in US, Europe don't care about Ukrainian lives unless their deaths can be weaponized to promote racist, xenophobic policies at home. My latest for @kyivindependent.com.

kyivindependent.com/how-the-righ...

How the right wing in US, Europe is weaponizing murders of Ukrainian refugees

Iryna Zarutska and her family fled Ukraine in 2022 to escape the threat of Russia’s full-scale war against her homeland, seeking safety and the promise of a new life in the United States. But that hop...

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Philip Obaji Jr. @philipobaji.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is how Russia recruits young African men & women to work in a drone factory in Alabuga, where they face pressure to join the war on Ukraine. Unfortunately, African governments offer little help and many returnees experience shame and trauma.
www.zammagazine.com/investigatio...

Migrant Battalion | Great Lakes

ZAM is an international multi-media platform celebrating African creativity and new thinking. Committed to giving an edgy and contemporary viewpoint on Africa, ZAM’s content is free of clichés, platit...

www.zammagazine.com

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Joanna Karolina Malinowska @malinowska.bsky.social · Sep 4

I’m truly honoured to have been elected to the Steering Committee of the EPSA @epsaphilsci.bsky.social .
Thank you for the trust and support! I look forward to working with colleagues to strengthen our community – and I’m grateful to those who have served before us for their work 💜
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European Philosophy of Science Association @epsaphilsci.bsky.social · Sep 4

🗳️ We are happy to announce that the following members have been elected to the Steering Committee:

- Catarina Dutilh Noaves (President)
- Julie Zahle
- Saana Jukola
- Magdalena Malecka
- Samuel Schindler
- Simon Lohse
- Joanna Karolina Malinowska

Congratulations to them! 👏

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · Sep 5

New episode of Yurt Jurt podcast about decolonial thought in North and Central Asia just dropped! Here I talk with Prof Madina Tlostanova about decolonial future, her new book and the term “postsoviet”.

available for free on Spotify, Apple Podcast & other major platforms!

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · Sep 2

Zuzana Uhde‘s work is always so worth reading. Also recommending her critical conceptualisation of ‘distorted emancipation’, whereby racially and socioeconomically privileged women get ahead through the outsourcing of care labour on othered women, while the gender division of labour stays unchanged

The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Sep 1

What do the experiences of cross-border care workers tell us about inequalities between Eastern and Western Europe?

Zuzana Uhde @sociologicky.bsky.social on marketisation, everyday bordering and the position of “white-but-not-Western”.

#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/4F7eSDs

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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · Aug 28

Tomorrow my country will commemorate the victims of the Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons testing site, clearly a colonial project of the Soviet Union to test poisonous weapons in the sacred steppe. Today we release YurtJurt podcast with anti-nuclear activist Aigerim Seitenova ❤️

Tune in!

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · Aug 26

There have been 80 documented attacks on maternity units since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and this is a read for the “it’s just a war in Ukraine not genocide” crowd. Imposing measures intended to prevent births, Article II of the genocide convention
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

‘Russia is targeting us deliberately’: how attacks on maternity hospitals fuelled a birth-rate crisis in Ukraine

The Guardian has visited three frontline hospitals to hear from women who say they have been left fearful of childbirth after more than 80 attacks on maternity units since Russia’s full-scale invasion

www.theguardian.com

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