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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 2d

Re-uping

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«Sam•Forsythe» @polymetis.bsky.social · 14d

terrifying myself by imagining that, somewhere out there, someone with more security clearance than brain cells is planning covert operations using chat gpt

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 2d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=icO5...

Is It Okay to Like Russia? | Russia Unfiltered #1

YouTube video by Russia Unfiltered

www.youtube.com

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 2d

So we decided to do a YouTube. Three guys talking about Russia.
Clickbait:
James: 'We won't call them [Americans going to Russia to live] white nationalists or anything'
Jonny: 'I think you just have'
Join us for what will hopefully be a recurring chat.
Link in the next post

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 4d

great example of alternative data science

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Current History @currenthistory1.bsky.social · 5d

In our new issue, @jeremymorris.bsky.social explains how the Kremlin manufactures and enforces consent for a war that benefits few Russians.

Maintaining the IllusionRussian Society After Three Years of War

Well into the fourth year of war since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian society remains largely compliant, even though few have benefited from the conflict. The working poor who make u...

online.ucpress.edu

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 5d

The loneliness of the long-distance war supporter in Russia. New Blogpost postsocialism.org/2025/10/03/t...

The loneliness of the long-distance war supporter in Russia

Irritation and isolation is the flipside of the ‘comfort’ culture. And perhaps what partly feeds demand for it. Most of all, though, war supporters feel lonely.

postsocialism.org

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 6d

By this decommunization logic, anyone who did any cultural production which saw the light of day between 1917-1991 is a collaborator with a colonial authority? Jeez, good luck with your postcolonial nation building!

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 6d

Like, no shit, Sherlock! Nowhere can the article admit that Shepitko was not just a Soviet filmmaker, but one of global stature in the 20thC. What a shame on (and for) Ukraine.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 6d

Ukrainian nationalists - aren't you going to run out of 'bad' Soviet Ukrainians soon? photo-lviv.in.ua/u-lvovi-demo...

"activist Oleg Radik... scrupulously researched the biography and work of the director, claiming that her activities were fully integrated into the Soviet cultural context"

У Львові демонтували меморіальну дошку радянській кінорежисерці Ларисі Шепітько • Фотографії старого Львова

У Львові, на вулиці Ковжуна, 8, демонтували меморіальну таблицю, присвячену радянській кінорежисерці Ларисі Шепітько. Ця подія стала результатом піврічної

photo-lviv.in.ua

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 7d

Volodya Z, you say?

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 8d

t.co/v9KUuQSiWZ

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649365.2025.2483712

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 8d

Current Reading: Maria Gunko, "Nothing there. A small Armenian town between
disappearance and endurance"

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 8d

From www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A crypto way out: cryptocurrency, techno-economic imaginaries, and crisis in Russia

Russia is a global forerunner in cryptocurrency adoption. This paper explores how cryptocurrency, as a techno-economic actant, informs the way Russians strategize their lives and imagine alternativ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 8d

Current reading: Crypto in Russia:
"Well, not to say anything out loud, let’s call it some kind of intensification of relations between different states.
They can make it so that at some point I will be left without the main source of income. Then I will have to do
it [invest in cryptocurrency]"

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Current History @currenthistory1.bsky.social · 9d

Our annual Russia and Eurasia issue is out! Featuring @jeremymorris.bsky.social on Russia’s compliant war society, Olena Strelnyk on Ukraine’s wartime gender equality turn, @nelbek.bsky.social on Belarus’s post-2020 transformations, Florian Mühlfried on mistrust and protest in Georgia…

Volume 124 Issue 864 | Current History | University of California Press

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 10d

less than in inch between that wank and anti-miscengenation laws.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 10d

'How cultivated and sensitive -or how superficial - must his Anglo-Saxon readers be, to have accepted this fascinating artist.' - Stefan Napukski

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 10d

Conrad's conviction that British tolerance, even if it is sometime naive, is better than foreign extremism and foreign cynicism. Wonderfully revealed through the mouth of an exasperated Russian aristocrat in The Secret Agent. (lack of open repression makes Britain the mockery of Europe)

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 10d

Re-Reading Conrad and always struck by his eternally contemporary relevance: the British are 'a people which has made a bargain with fate and wouldn't like to be rude to it.'

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 12d

We did an author meet and book exchange yesterday in salubrious surroundings. Bonus was the cosplay Peaky Blinders bloke. From some angles he looked like Lenin.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 14d

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The elephant in the lecture hall: Russian intelligence and Western academia

Recent revelations of Russia’s espionage activities involving individuals associated with higher education highlight a troubling reality: the restrained curiosity within Western academia about Russ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 14d

"Kuzminov had an element of authoritarianism, but he invited people to HSE who were able to object to him. And, even if later, for various reasons, such people were relegated to less noticeable positions..." Yakovlev provides cover for the myth of HSE as 'like any Western one'.

Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 14d

Obviously I don't agree with some of it, but it's at least a chink of light on how the narrative of Russian universities as bastions of liberal freedom was always a self-exculpating narrative. Like this pabulum t-invariant.org/2023/10/andr...

Андрей Яковлев: «По линии ФСБ Вышку передали из ведения службы экономической безопасности в ведение службы по защите конституционного строя и борьбы с терроризмом» - Т-инвариант / T-invariant

Почему среди всех новых знаменитых вузов, возникших в постсоветской России, Высшая школа экономики оказалась в худшем положении? В какой момент в вузе началась эпоха солидарности с государственной иде...

t-invariant.org

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 14d

Well overdue article: "The elephant in the lecture hall: Russian intelligence and Western academia" by Sanshiro Hosaka

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