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The BEARR Trust @thebearrtrust.bsky.social · 15h

Join us on 20 Nov, in London or online, for The BEARR Trust 2026 Annual Conference on preventing violence against women and girls in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Register with a donation to support frontline organisations across the region: bearr.org/2026/08/18/t...

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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I had the pleasure of talking with Ian Masters about Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff's receipt of Putin's offer of purchasing Lukoil assets abroad on the cheap while they were supposed to further peace between Russia and Ukraine. www.backgroundbriefing.org

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Background Briefing

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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Are you interested in hearing me talk about money laundering? Are you someone who'll be at home at 6pm on October 20th? This is your lucky day! Sign up for the excellent BEARR Trust's annual talk here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-bearr-...

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The BEARR Trust online talk with Oliver Bullough

Journalist and author Oliver Bullough joins BEARR online on 20 October to discuss illicit wealth, kleptocracy and organised crime.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pryluky. No words. Nine people killed by the Russian strike on the residential building. Three of them children. A Russian war crime of horrendous scale that will be overlooked by the international community once more.

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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

20 years ago today Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia’s most prominent investigative journalists, was murdered. I found no mention of the anniversary in today's Russian newspapers. #ReadingRussia

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Russian papers silent on the 20th anniversary of journalist's murder

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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Europe is corrupt, stupid, and incompetent. Over the decades, Russia has successfully recruited heads of state, heads of spy agencies, and entire political parties. And this is still the case today, 12 years after the 2014 Crimea invasion and 4.5 years after 2022. theins.press/en/news/297947

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Former German intelligence head arrested on suspicion of espionage had traveled to Russia at least seven times

Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office has reported the arrest of August Hanning, the former president of the country’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND), on…

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The 7 stages of Western "concern" 1 This is concerning 2 This is increasingly concerning 3 We are now deeply concerned 4 We are now gravely concerned 5 There will be consequences 6 We demand answers 7 It is important not to escalate the situation

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4u1e.bsky.social @4u1e.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As always, very worthwhile reading the post which gives a rational view of what Ukraine has been up to, based on currently available information.

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Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In this post I return again to Ukraine’s Operation Vivaldi and what it can tell us about current tactics and technologies, and in particular the importance of information security and deception. (£/free trial). samf.substack.com/p/operation-...?

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Operation Vivaldi: the four seasons

Surprise, deception, and operation security - lessons from Ukrainian success

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is sad news. Simon was a big help with this story that showed Howard Lutnick apparently lied about his business entanglement with Jeffrey Epstein—a story that deserves more attention. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offender

The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Russia Feb 2022: We need to invade Ukraine as they have biolabs producing Russophobic weaponised bats that make people gay. Russia Oct 2026: Someone died at one of our biolabs that makes the bubonic plague.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The more blatantly full of hate racist Reform UK become the greater the backlash of generosity from the majority of decent Brits meme via The Unheard Majority

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Rosemary Thomas @rozzthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of the very few statesmen in Europe right up there with Zelenskyy and Kallas.

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Janet Gunn @janfred48.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why keep repeating the same mistake?

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Rosemary Thomas @rozzthomas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Keep talking about #Oleshky

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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 30/09/2026

US withdraws from a top European anti-corruption watchdog, which Russia and Belarus left before. buff.ly/qEIK9Os

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I was deeply honored to meet President Zelensky via Zoom when he asked me to become an ambassador for UNITED24 to raise funds for surveillance drones. I'm proud to have walked this road with @u24.gov.ua to support the sovereign nation of 🇺🇦 & so grateful to all who have donated! 🙏❤️👍 #SlavaUkraine

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ukrainian Defenders managed to carry out one of the largest drone operations to deliver food to residents of occupied #Oleshky, where Russia has created a humanitarian catastrophe&continues to hold around 2,000 residents hostage,including nearly 50 children 📹Kherson Regional Military Administration

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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“What should I do if I need my motherland, but she doesn’t need me?” Superheroes, special operations and “shaping the mindset of children.” An extended edition of #ReadingRussia

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Superheroes, "special operations" and “shaping the mindset of Russian children.”

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Rosemary Thomas @rozzthomas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Don’t stop talking about #Oleshky Cold death never gets old for Russia.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

OTD in 1938 Hitler gave a speech demanding the Sudetenland be handed to Germany. He said his countrymen were being mistreated and needed protection. Also promised it was his last territorial demand. He was lying. Imagine that happening today.

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Rosemary Thomas @rozzthomas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Please everyone don’t stop talking about #Oleshky where Russia is deliberately starving the population and hunting down civilians with drones.

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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

russia’s criminal war continues because russia wants it to continue. By defending itself, Ukraine is fighting for peace. The delusion that yielding to russia will stop the killing has been disproven again and again. With russia, surrender is when the killing starts.

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Janet Gunn @janfred48.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don’t waste any time correcting Owen Jones. Not worth it.

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Beng @bengtang.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you know English speaking people who would like to help Ukrainians practice English and learn a bit about Ukrainian language and culture at the same time, point them to this: www.enginprogram.org

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ENGin — English Practice & Volunteer Program

ENGin connects Ukrainian students with fluent English-speaking volunteers for weekly conversation practice. 38,000+ students. Join today

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Janet Gunn @janfred48.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have been volunteering for over a year. It's fun.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

President Erdoğan: As for the Russia-Ukraine war, it is our sincere hope that it comes to an end with Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity being upheld.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The difference between the performance of immigrants in England and Western Europe is staggering. (20 pts equals a year of learning.) I looked at this in detail in the post - it can't be explained away by language or relative advantage of different immigrant communities. There is a policy factor.

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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Worth reminding over and over again: if russia stops fighting, there will be no war; if Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no Ukraine.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

President Macron: We must defend Ukrainians more than ever. As winter is coming, we must defend them on the energy front. We must give them more interceptors. We must protect the civilian population. And this is why we'd like to express our support.

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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 22/09/2026

A Kremlin-backed fintech company used old-fashioned money laundering to bypass western sanctions and funnel almost $7bn through major international banks, including Standard Chartered, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank. Read today's excusive investigation 👉 ft.trib.al/POYpdNe

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Putin now faces the gamble of a lifetime The Kremlin leader must find more troops but ordering another conscription drive risks sparking protests in Moscow archive.ph/LPmLx

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The deepest, most serious mistake of the IR field is the concept of « Russia’s legitimate security concerns ». They don’t exist. Never have. Russia has not been threatened even vaguely in its entire post-1991 existence.

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Warspitefella 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @warspitefella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Canada has formally applied to join the UK led Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF), a collection of nations whose mandate is to respond more quickly in a crisis.” This makes a lot more sense now than when we turned it down in 2014. The JEF has morphed from an initiative 🧵 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Canada wants into Britain's rapid-response defence club | CBC News

Canada has formally applied to join the United Kingdom's Joint Expeditionary Force, reversing a decision made more than a decade ago. Born from the Afghanistan war and reshaped by Russia's invasion of...

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🇹🇷❗️Russian drones hit Turkish-owned cargo ship M/V Mariam M in Ukraine's Danube Delta canal near the Romanian border. The ship was heading from Latakia, Syria to Galati, Romania. Turkish sources report both the captain and harbor pilot killed with 13 injured.

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The electoral farce in occupied Ukraine is so absurdly sinister it reads like evil satire

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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are advancing inside Luhansk Oblast. Even Russian military maps now acknowledge Ukrainian-controlled territory there. Russia does not fully control a single one of the four Ukrainian oblasts Putin illegally claims as Russian territory. Read my full report today below👇

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Keir Giles @keirgiles.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Russia plotting to murder somebody because they are "telling the media and the common people [sic] that the Russians are the aggressors". That covers... pretty much anybody in this business that isn't actually working for Moscow. (Screenshot from US indictment via @christogrozev.bsky.social)

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Ian Charles @iancharles007.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm starting to see holes in the line that Reform are the party that protects women.

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Olesya Khromeychuk @okhromeychuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The event marked the opening of ‘Sacred Treasures from Kyiv’: art from the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, on display in the UK for the first time. Do visit the V&A to see the treasures from Kyiv among the many other treasures the museum holds. Images by Anton Tkachenko & Anton Trofimchuk.

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In a hidden-camera operation, pardon brokers Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl said that for $300,000, they could help a felon get a pardon from the president. They said their services included working with influencers to advocate for his case. cbsn.ws/4dj706z

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I predicted a month ago that Trump was going to say exactly this. I said he was going to try and blame Ukraine for diesel prices and tell Zelenskyy to stop. And here it is. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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