For those of you in Ottawa on October 10th, save the date! "Disinformation, Propaganda, and Russia's War on Ukraine," sponsored by SSHRC and the McMillan Chair in Russian Studies. The workshop will be open to the public, registration required. Details 👇 carleton.ca/eurus/cu-eve...

Immigrants to the UK also pay an "immigration healthcare surcharge". For a skilled worker, that's £1,035/yr plus visa fees (£769-£1,519 per person), and you still pay tax for NHS. ...Of course, that's a bargain compared to $100k for an H1-B visa in the US (and you're on your own for healthcare).

Important section of the latest CPCS, dedicated to the challenges of “emergency response research” by Ukrainian and Polish researchers following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Looking forward to today's presentations in this conference. I'll be talking about research agendas and methods in Russian studies since 2022 and will be sharing the findings a bit later. The first panel will be live streamed, for any interested parties: harriman.columbia.edu/event/harrim...

The first award will be made in 2026 for articles published this year!

America is having its Kukly moment.

New in Advance Articles (Open Access): Proxy Games and Freezing Conflict: Trilateral Identifications, Fear, and Agency in Russia-Georgia Relations Post-Crimea by Julie Wilhelmsen & Salome Minesashvili online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...

I’ve been researching the impact of the war on Russian studies, looking at everything published in key journals since 2022. I’ll share the findings later, but this much I can say for certain: the last thing we need is yet another IR think piece with no data or method. You’re not helping.

Submissions for the 2025 CAS Undergraduate and Graduate Student Essay Contests are open! See our website for further details: slavists.ca/association/...

New in Advance Articles: Media Literacy and the Interpretation of the War—A Study of Uzbekistani Youth’s Perceptions on the Russia-Ukraine War by Mukhammadsodik Donaev doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Clearing the brush from my bookshelf, I find myself throwing out a lot of work from late-90s/early-00s on institutional choice, Duma committees, and federalism. All things that ultimately mattered for just a short period in Putin’s Russia.

Before the re-launch of @cpcs.bsky.social in 2020, it was on life support with a backlog of 200 unprocessed articles and decision times of 18-24 months! Today, we get 180+ submissions per year, decision times are at 63 days, and the Impact Factor has nearly doubled since 2021.

The CPCS Editor's Report 2025 is now available for download: drive.google.com/file/d/1qo-S... A short highlight thread: 🔸2024 Impact Factor ↗️ 1.3 🔸2024 Immediacy Index ↗️ 1.1 🔸2024 Scopus CiteScore ↗️ 2.4 (1/9)

Glad to have the chance to talk about Putin, Trump, and Ukraine today, alongside Peter Schturyn. Our segment starts at about 37:00. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

The presence of Ukraine war veterans continues to increase at every level of government in Russia. War veterans may soon be the regime's second largest institutional base of support, just behind the ruling party United Russia. Don't expect Putin to suddenly stop the war because Trump asked nicely.

🚨📢 New article out! "Text-as-Data Methods to Study Mass-Media Manipulations in Autocracies" (AKA my PhD Thesis intro revisited :) Huge thanks to Max Alyukov, @gulnazsharaf.bsky.social, Tomila Lankina, @jpaulgoode.bsky.social, @ktertytchnaya.bsky.social & anon rev for advice & support 🙏

Looking forward to today's panel on "Russia's War Narratives and the West" at #iccees2025!

The sun has made a cameo appearance for #ICCEES2025!

Attending #ICCEES2025? Reach out to Editor-in-Chief Paul Goode (@jpaulgoode.bsky.social) if you'd like to discuss your manuscript, and please join us for the panel on "Publishing in Academic Journals and Books" on Wednesday, July 23rd. www.myeventflo.com/event-lectur...

And I thought the UK's immigration healthcare surcharge was exploitative. In targeting non-immigrant visas (tourists, business travelers, students), this is a straight up cash grab.

Important new article on the experiences of anti-war Russian academics who remained in Russia: 🔸the impossibility of discussing the war 🔸shifting from futile open resistance to civic responsibility 🔸alienation from the opposition in exile 🔸frustration and disappointment in the West.

“large language models like ChatGPT are intellectual Soylent Green” Perhaps the best snippet from an excellent column: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

Recently published in the June issue: ICT Use and Entrepreneurial Mobilization of Chinese Grassroots Activists in and beyond Cyberspace: A Case Study of Popular Protest in Qidong Available by Jian Lu Free to access for one week. doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Honestly not surprising given this government's contempt for all kinds of expertise, especially as pertains to Russia and Ukraine. As a bonus, for once the question "where have all the Russia experts gone?" actually has some grounding in reality (and an answer). www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...

Just Published in the June issue: Forging Democracy in the Flames: Strategies of Polish NGOs during the Full-Scale War in Ukraine by Paulina Pospieszna & Patrice C. McMahon Open access: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs... Abstract:

Golos earned the distinction of being the very first target of Russia’s “foreign agents” law for collecting reports of election fraud in 2011-2012, when mass protests shook the Kremlin and triggered its shift into full blown autocracy.

The Texas hill country has a massive flash flood every decade or so. This one was particularly horrible because it hit an area with children's summer camps. Some of my fondest childhood memories were from just such a camp, about an hour's drive from Kerrville. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/04/t...

It was an honor to be part of the keynote panel for the conference on Culture, Media, and Resistance in a Polarising World at the University of Manchester. A great way to kickoff the UKRI network ‘Shifting Global Polarities: Russia, China, and Eurasia in Transition’.

Manchester things.

Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social is now published by OUP in the USA (rest of world soon) If you are interested in why you see so many dictatorships & illiberal leaders influencing world politics then this is the book for you.

LLMs are your imposter syndrome, externalized.

One of the most original and important theorists of nationalism today. Absolutely looking forward to this.

Subtweet threads, but in the 16th century.

My feed has become utterly choked with people re-posting T's social posts and clips that it's almost unreadable. Guys, don't feed the troll. Meanwhile, the muting will continue until morale improves!

Just Published in the June issue: Explaining Support for Russian Narratives about the Events in Ukraine among Japanese Scholars and Intellectuals in 2014–19 by Sanshiro Hosaka Free to access for one week. doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

New in Advance Articles: Gender Egalitarianism of Recent Emigrants from Russia: The Effect of Emigration or a Trait of a Social Group? by Veronica Kostenko, Emil Kamalov, Ivetta Sergeeva doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

⚡ Belarus has freed 14 political prisoners, including Siarhei Tsikhanouski, husband of opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. The release follows a meeting between Alexander Lukashenko and U.S. envoy Keith Kellogg. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Signed.

Really proud of the @cpcs.bsky.social editorial team's hard work. Onward and upward!

New in Advance Articles: Sino-Russian Relations from the Perspective of National Role Theory: Mutual Role Expectations and Symbolic Contestation in Media Discourses by Elizaveta Priupolina doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Just Published in the June issue: Supporting the War in Ukraine Compared to the Annexation of Crimea in Russia’s Bureaucratic Texts by Jussi Lassila Open access: doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Just Published in the June issue: Putin’s Technological Deluge: Techno-Populism, Anti-Westernism, and the Strive for Global Leadership Available by Olga Solovyeva & Ilya Yablokov Free to access for one week. doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

Russia today banned three important organizations as “undesirable”: the British Council, ASEEES @aseees.bsky.social, and Germany-based Russian Echo radio station. FSB also accused Oxford Russia Fund, outlawed in 2021, of “subversive” activities, issuing warnings to 15 Russian academics. 1/5

Russia has declared ASEEES @aseees.bsky.social an "undesirable organization." ASEEES is the largest Western academic association for Slavic studies. This ruling puts Russian scholars at risk of prosecution for being members or participating in the annual conference. ovd.info/express-news...

I'm not saying that Russia intends to attack the UK, but anyone paying attention will recall that Russia vehemently denied planning to attack Ukraine in 2022...up until it did. When denials of the incredible are no longer perceived as credible, you've officially opened Pandora's box.

New in Advance Articles: Networked Public Diplomacy: How Public-Private Partnerships Have Played a Role in Securitizing Ukrainian Culture in Wartime, 2014–24 by Gabriel Porc doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

ICYMI: how Russian television makes occupation boring again.

The Danyliw Research Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine -- the most exciting academic gathering in Ukrainian studies, will be back on 25-27 September! Call for Proposals (26 June deadline). Open to doctoral students, scholars, films, book panels. International. www.danyliwseminar.com/call-for-pro...