Aleksei Kiselev
@alyosha-kiselev.bsky.social
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Research associate
@eui-fbf-school.bsky.social
Econ PhD candidate EUI
My take: the International Bureau of Weights and Measures is next on the Kremlin list
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about 1 month ago
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Amazing discovery! Especially in times when in Russia the Stalinist practices are back, and even the museum dedicated to repressions has been just shut down
meduza.io/en/feature/2...
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about 1 month ago
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Mediazona English
about 1 month ago
It’s the fourth anniversary of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Our list of verified deaths has reached a grim milestone: 200,000 names. Read about it, as well as a new map of Russian losses we are introducing, here:
en.zona.media/article/2026...
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Aleksei Kiselev
The Atlantic
2 months ago
Trump asked Putin to hold off—and Putin launched massive attacks instead, showing what he thinks of the Ukraine peace talks, Simon Shuster reports:
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This Is What Putin Thinks of Trump’s Peace Talks
President Trump asked Putin to hold off attacks on energy infrastructure in Ukraine, which has been gripped by bitter cold. Putin showed his contempt by launching a massive overnight attack.
https://bit.ly/4qhhg2O
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Mediazona English
12 months ago
A Moscow court sentenced 4 journalists for alleged involvement in Navalny’s “extremist” Anti-Corruption Foundation: Antonina Favorskaya, Artem Krieger (both SotaVision), Konstantin Gabov (Reuters) and Sergei Karelin (AP) to 5.5 years in prison 📷 Alexandra Astakhova/Mediazona
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In Russia, independent journalism faces severe repression. Any dissenting voice is deemed an "extremist" according to Russian law.
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12 months ago
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“Honest to god, I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist and coauthor of “How Democracies Die” and “Competitive Authoritarianism.” - says it all... You can read it for free without a subscription.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
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‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook (Gift Article)
The president’s escalating conflict with federal courts is even more aggressive than what happened in countries like Hungary and Turkey, experts say.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/world/europe/trump-courts-defiance-autocrats-playbook.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6U4.Z36g.UIPU0sG7PsUv&smid=bs-share
about 1 year ago
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Interesting and informed analysis
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about 1 year ago
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Aleksei Kiselev
Anne Applebaum
about 1 year ago
Putin planned to take Kyiv in three days, but he couldn't take Kyiv in three years. The only way Putin wins now—the only way he finally succeeds in destroying Ukraine’s sovereignty—is by persuading Ukraine’s allies to abandon Ukraine.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Putin’s Three Years of Humiliation
The Russian president can’t win his war against Ukraine unless he persuades its allies to betray it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/putins-three-years-of-humiliation/681810/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK34k3jSfvZz-LsiFfxq0VKww&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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BBC Newsnight
about 1 year ago
"They're celebrating in the Kremlin right now, they're popping Champagne." Putin critic and financier, Bill Browder, says President Trump's announcement about the war in Ukraine is his 'worst nightmare' come true.
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Guy Grossman
about 1 year ago
Americans are getting a crash course on what things look like when autocrats consolidate power and why it’s hard to beat them in the ballot box when every organization controlling speech is aligned with the ruling party.
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No surprises for those who follow the topic. But some people still believe autocrats care about their citizens and can sustain good living standards. They don't.
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over 1 year ago
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