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Amelie Tolvin

@atolvin.bsky.social
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phd candidate at the university of toronto and researcher, university of helsinki i study authoritarian regimes and military violence

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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
"The Ukrainian colleague who walks into her office on the 25th of February 2022 at a Western institution: The professor comes up to her and says, “I am so sorry! It’s just awful! I love Russia so much!”" by @efdavies.bsky.social efdavies.substack.com/p/have-you-h...
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Have you heard these stories?
Why the challenges of colonialism and sexism are so similar.
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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
While empires are ravaging Ukraine, think about donating to Ukrainians if you can. And consider de-centring these empires from your cultural consumption. There is fantastic music and literature in Ukraine that Russia is trying to destroy. Support it by learning about it. chapterukraine.com
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Ukrainian literature in English translation – Chapter Ukraine
Build your own bookshelf dedicated to Ukrainian literature in English translation. | Chapter Ukraine
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The amnesty is perhaps the most offensive part of the unworkable Trump proposal.
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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
It is striking how much this is not understood, including by many who regularly weigh into discussions on global justice and from leftist positions
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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
If this is indeed the plan, I am humbly calling on the world's most powerful leaders to stop asking dilettante real estate developers to feed ChatGPT with prompts along the lines of "Ignore all history and write me a plan to achieve a world peace in our lifetime and make Putin happy."
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Hi it’s 7am we are under attack daily reminder that you can help here www.sternenkofund.org/en
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Sternenko Community Foundation
The Sternenko Community Foundation was established to continuously provide the Ukrainian Defence Forces with drones, primarily FPV, as well as to promote the development of UAV technologies.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Russia attacked kindergarten in Kharkiv. Russia’s daily terror across Ukraine continues.
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Keir Giles @keirgiles.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"Understanding [Russia's] long-term patterns of strategic deception is essential in order to effectively counter" them. Important long read from @katri.bsky.social and @atolvin.bsky.social breaking down how Russia shapes outcomes through narratives over decades. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Reconstructing Kremlin strategic deception: the logic of disinformation narratives during the first phase of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Official Kremlin rhetoric about the ‘special military operation’ produces clashing, often contrasting interpretations of reality. This article applies perspectives from Soviet ideological language ...
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Amelie Tolvin @atolvin.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Thanks, Keir!!
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Katri Pynnöniemi @katri.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Our paper with @atolvin.bsky.social at #iccees2025 about Russia's strategic deception, will be published later this year!
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
They hit a subway station in Kyiv where people were hiding from explosions
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Tatarigami @tatarigami.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The situation with Russians killing a toddler with a drone is especially despicable when you realize this wasn’t a stray artillery shell that landed 50 meters off, or a Shahed drone that hit a tall building, but an FPV drone, guided in real time by an operator watching it live
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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Ceasefire shmeasefire. Air alert in Kyiv - threat of ballistic missile launches from east. Explosions reported in Kharkiv.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Ru ceasefires are always lies. Time for a broader audience to learn what Ukrainians have known for 11 yrs.
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Tymofiy Mylovanov @mylovanov.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Foreign policy asks a fantastic question - why don’t Russian soldiers revolt. After all they all die. Here is the answer. 1/
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Olga Tokariuk @olgatokariuk.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Russia killed at least 21 people in Sumy, northern Ukraine, today, on Palm Sunday. Two ballistic missiles hit the center of the city. More than 80 people are injured. This attack made absolutely no sense other than to terrorise civilians and to showcase Russia's impunity.
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Amelie Tolvin @atolvin.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Thank you!
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Amelie Tolvin @atolvin.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Thanks for sharing this! Looking forward to giving it a read.
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Amelie Tolvin @atolvin.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Thank you so much!
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Amelie Tolvin @atolvin.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Thank you!!!
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Amelie Tolvin @atolvin.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Many thanks to @katri.bsky.social, @kaihko.bsky.social, and @keirgiles.bsky.social, who read this essay in its various stages, and especially to @seva.bsky.social, who generously read far too many drafts to count.
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Amelie Tolvin @atolvin.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
My first Foreign Policy essay is out - it examines the role of violence in Russia's military, which both creates docility in the face of meatgrinder tactics, and encourages increased violence towards fellow soldiers and Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/09/r...
foreignpolicy.com
Why Don’t Russian Soldiers Revolt?
Astonishing death rates and brutal abuse have not kept troops from following orders.
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Elena Holmgren @lenaholmgren.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
"Astonishing death rates and brutal abuse have not kept troops from following orders." - a brilliant piece by @atolvin.bsky.social at foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/09/r...
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Why Don’t Russian Soldiers Revolt?
Astonishing death rates and brutal abuse have not kept troops from following orders.
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Amelie Tolvin @atolvin.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Thank you!!!
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Keir Giles @keirgiles.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome @atolvin.bsky.social's debut piece in Foreign Policy, on how the ingrained violence of Russia's military system helps explain both acquiescence in the meatgrinder and atrocities toward its victims. Keep writing please. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/09/r...
foreignpolicy.com
Why Don’t Russian Soldiers Revolt?
Astonishing death rates and brutal abuse have not kept troops from following orders.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/03/2025
I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/03/2025
this is just abjectly fucking terrifying nobody should be disappeared because they wrote an op-ed nobody should be disappeared at all
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
None of these crimes will stop if Russia manages to formally keep the occupied territories. On the contrary, they will escalate. Because they are not the product of the war per se but of Russia’s objective of erasing the Ukrainian nation as Ukrainians define it and imposing a ru-defined Ukr identity
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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
On this International Women's Day, please consider donating to VETERANKA - a Ukrainian charity that helps women who serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and female veterans. uwvm.org.ua/uk/
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Olga Tokariuk @olgatokariuk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Total bully tactics by the US president and VP. This is not diplomacy. This is not neutrality. This is siding with the aggressor and trying to finish off the victim. President Zelensky was the only one in the room to behave with dignity.
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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Helsinki tonight
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Amelie Tolvin @atolvin.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
What does the future of the region look like if Russia succeeds in its war against Ukraine? Ryhor Nizhnikau states that it's bleak, and states will be faced with the choice of becoming vassal states (like Belarus), or to face extermination (like Ukraine).
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Amelie Tolvin @atolvin.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
On the US, Kseniya Oksamytna (@kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social) tells us that it has shown that it thinks it can act alone in international affairs, without regard for its allies. She further argues that these actions show us that the Concert of Europe (!)'s diplomatic conventions are being revised
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Amelie Tolvin @atolvin.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Ryhor Nizhnikau (@fiia.fi), in perhaps my favourite remarks of this roundtable, said that in terms of seeking a resolution to this war, Ukrainians have shown over the years that they are the only adults in the room.
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Amelie Tolvin @atolvin.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
What does a lasting peace look like for Ukraine? Katri Pynnöniemi (@katri.bsky.social) highlighted the significance of security guarantees, EU membership, and justice for war crimes committed by russia. Ultimately, however, a change is required IN russia for a just peace to occur.
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Amelie Tolvin @atolvin.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I had the honour of chairing our second session on international security perspectives, with Katri Pynnöniemi (University of Helsinki and the National Defence University of Finland), Kseniya Oksamytna (City University of London), and Ryhor Nizhnikau (Finnish Institute of International Affairs)
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Amelie Tolvin @atolvin.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Today, the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki is hosting a series of roundtable discussions on three years of Ukrainian resistance to the full-scale invasion
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Kseniya Oksamytna @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Join us in Helsinki or online on 24 February to discuss three years of Ukraine's resistance Thanks to Aleksanteri Institute, @amtolok.bsky.social, @sierrasalazar.bsky.social, Maija Harju, @unabergmane.bsky.social for organising!
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E-Lomake - Roundtable discussions: Three Years of Ukrainian Resistance to the Full-Scale Invasion
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Amelie Tolvin @atolvin.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Thanks for joining us - really looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 04/12/2024
New: Kherson’s civilians have been the target of an experiment without precedent in modern European warfare: a concerted Russian campaign to empty a city by stalking its residents with attack drones. Story w/ @samjoiner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social + @cen4infores.bsky.social on.ft.com/4fTNzAL
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Russia uses civilians as ‘target practice’ for killer drones
Southern Ukrainian city of Kherson hit more than 9,500 times as Moscow attempts to drive out residents
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Amelie Tolvin @atolvin.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
brilliant presentation on the Shiyes Protests and waste colonialism by @lenagorbacheva.bsky.social at this year’s ASEEES!
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Amelie Tolvin @atolvin.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Hi Dr. Bowers!! So happy to have found you on here 😊
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