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Anni Kangas

@kangasanni.bsky.social
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University Lecturer in International Relations at Tampere University. Global Political economy, labour migration, critical raw materials, Central Asia, art-research interface.

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Nazerke Mukhamediya @mukhamedian.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Despite many critiques, I believe that the “+5” formats are beneficial for CA, in strengthening regional cooperation. Indeed, significant steps in CA–EU cooperation bring both hopes and doubts. CRMs are a central topic everywhere, and there is still much to research, engage with, and be aware of.
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Teivo Teivainen @teivo.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Work with us. We have two one-year positions in World Politics now open. Deadline soon, so please share with potential candidates. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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University Lecturer in World Politics
University Lecturer in World Politics
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The Times of Central Asia @timesca.com · 04/04/2025
The Samarkand Declaration solidifies a new strategic partnership between Central Asia and the European Union, strengthening trade, green energy, and regional cooperation timesca.com/samarkand-de... #SamarkandDeclaration #CentralAsia #TradePartnership #GreenEnergy #EuropeanUnion #EU
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Samarkand Declaration Paves the Way for a Stronger Central Asia–EU Partnership - The Times Of Central Asia
The inaugural Central Asia-European Union Summit, held in Samarkand on April 3-4, marked a significant milestone in strengthening ties between the two
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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I look at Germany with what I know from authoritarian states: post-socialist Kyrgyzstan & post-colonial Myanmar. My colleague @sarahkendzior.bsky.social studied Uzbekistan first, then the US. Anthropologists know because we study humanity cross-culturally and with the history in! It can happen here!
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The Times of Central Asia @timesca.com · 31/03/2025
EU High Representative Kaja Kallas toured Central Asia to bolster ties ahead of the historic EU-Central Asia Summit, focusing on energy, trade, and climate cooperation timesca.com/eus-kallas-t... #EU #CentralAsia #KajaKallas #EnergyCooperation #TradeRelations #CentralAsiaSummit
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EU’s Kallas Tours Central Asia Ahead of Landmark Samarkand Summit - The Times Of Central Asia
In Tashkent, Kallas met with President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. Discussions highlighted the upcoming Samarkand summit and stressed the importance of deepening
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I interviewed Skobov for my hippie book, since he was the anarchist part of a hippie commune in Leningrad in late 70s. He was very sharp and very brave. He should have been a Russian Bernie Saunders. Instead he has the honour to have been imprisoned by all Russian regimes of his life time.
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Wrote for @cepa.org on the White House's huge mistake in suspending aid to Ukraine: "[It] reinforces the rapidly emerging view that the US is an unreliable security partner and encourages even reluctant states to start to think of a world without it." cepa.org/article/the-...
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The Spiraling Costs of America First
The far-reaching consequences of the Trump administration’s Ukraine policy are rippling out across the globe.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"So bold are Putin’s ceasefire demands, it’s hard to believe he is entirely serious" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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So bold are Putin’s ceasefire demands, it’s hard to believe he is entirely serious
The extraordinary demands of the Russian leader to weaken Ukraine would make a mockery of any peace deal
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
In our book, @oxanashevel.bsky.social and I argue there should be no normalization w russia but containment until russians depose the Putin regime, return the occupied Ukr territories, pay reparations, turn over war criminals for prosecution, pursue democratization and deimperialization.
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The Times of Central Asia @timesca.com · 14/03/2025
Our @joelucbarnes.bsky.social looks at how Uzbekistan’s auto market is transforming as Chinese electric vehicles challenge Chevrolet’s long-standing dominance timesca.com/chevrolet-vs... #Uzbekistan #ElectricVehicles #ChineseCars #Chevrolet #AutomotiveIndustry #CarMarket
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Chevrolet vs China: The Battle for the Future of Uzbekistan’s Auto Industry - The Times Of Central Asia
ANDIJAN -- Spend long enough in Uzbekistan and you become adept at reading numberplates. While in Paris or Los Angeles, you will generally identify your taxi
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Apply!
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Temur Umarov @tumarov.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"The United States looks forward to working with Kazakhstan to deepen economic ties in the energy, telecommunications, and critical minerals sectors." From Secretary Rubio’s call with Kazakhstan's Foreign Minister Nurtleu: www.state.gov/secretary-ru...
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Secretary Rubio’s Call with Kazakhstan Deputy Prime Minister-Foreign Minister Nurtleu - United States Department of State
The below is attributable to Spokesperson Tammy Bruce: Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke today with Kazakhstan Deputy Prime Minister-Foreign Minister Murat Nurtleu to emphasize the U.S. commitment ...
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Olga Tokariuk @olgatokariuk.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
At least 20 Ukrainian civilians have been killed just this night by Russian missiles and drones. Hundreds of soldiers were killed on the frontline in recent days. These are the first results of the US suspension of military aid and intelligence to Ukraine: more deaths time.com/7265679/sate...
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Hundreds Dead: Inside the Trump Ukraine Fallout
The US intelligence pause has undercut supply lines to Kursk, cut satellite imagery and tanked morale.
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Anni Kangas @kangasanni.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Ooo, tämä olisi mainiota saada nähtäväksi myös Suomeen!
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Anni Kangas @kangasanni.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
What a great and intellectual keynote on radical politics against authoritarian and semi-authoritarian social contracts in the Central Asian context by @adoolotkeldieva.bsky.social at @helsinki.fi’s Populism conference organised by @emiliapalonen.bsky.social’s team.
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Asel Doolotkeldieva @adoolotkeldieva.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Our article on current geopoliticization of Critical Raw Materials & how it concerns Central Asia. Together with @kangasanni.bsky.social & @kristiinasilvan.bsky.social !
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Anni Kangas @kangasanni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Mineraalidiili puhuttaa. Kirjoitimme @kristiinasilvan.bsky.social’n ja @adoolotkeldieva.bsky.social’n kanssa uuteen tutkimukseemme perustuen kriittisten raaka-aineiden geopolitisoitumisesta erityisesti Keski-Aasiassa. politiikasta.fi/kriittiset-r...
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Kriittiset raaka-aineet geopolitisoituvat Keski-Aasiassa – Politiikasta
Kilpailu taloudellisesti merkittävistä raaka-aineista uhkaa globaalisti oikeudenmukaista vihreää siirtymää.
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Politiikasta @politiikasta.fi · 05/03/2025
Kilpailusta taloudellisesti merkittävistä raaka-aineista on muodostumassa suurvaltojen kamppailu nollasummapelin hengessä. Grönlannin ja Ukrainan ohella myös Keski-Aasiasta löytyy merkittävä osuus maailman kriittisten raaka-aineiden varannoista. #tiedetaivas #politiikasta
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Kriittiset raaka-aineet geopolitisoituvat Keski-Aasiassa – Politiikasta
Kilpailu taloudellisesti merkittävistä raaka-aineista uhkaa globaalisti oikeudenmukaista vihreää siirtymää.
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Gesine Weber @gesineweber.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Quick 🧵 on yesterday's Ukraine summit (1/3): Key takeaways: - France & UK working on plan for one-month truce for sea, air, infrastructure - only after signature of deal: potential European coalition of the willing (=troops) for peacekeeping - higher defence spending www.ft.com/content/603b...
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UK and France aim for new Ukraine peace deal involving initial 1-month truce
Starmer and Macron pursue European plan after Zelenskyy’s furious encounter with Trump in Washington
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Vance can barely ski, looks like maybe his third day on skis, he’s out there causing wipeouts. He doesn’t even seem to be with his family. What is he doing alone on a mountain in Vermont having people yell at him? What did he think was going to happen? www.msn.com/en-us/politi...
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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Even knowing Trump was a Russian asset (despite many American leftists’ smug screeching about Russiagate being „cringe”), gotta say I didn’t expect this level of complete vassalization to happen within a month.
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“What we’re witnessing is the self-sabotage of the United States.” @davidfrum.bsky.social on Trump and Vance’s detestable antics in the Oval Office. @theatlantic.com
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At Least Now We Know the Truth
It’s ugly, but necessary to face.
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
As part of my effort at strategic autonomy from the US, just switched from Chrome to Norway-based Vivaldi based on this skeet. Works fine
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JohannaK @hauntingletters.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"Sinä ja minä olemme kasvaneet kiinni kapitalismin ja sosialismin liberaaleihin ideoihin, joiden vallitessa luultiin järjen ratkaisevan. Ja sen tähden on niin vaikea käsittää nykyistä maailmanmenoa." (Paasikivi Tannerille 5.8.1939)
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Timo R. Stewart @timostewart.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Myrskyisä päivä YK:n yleiskokouksessa. Ukrainan ja useimpien Euroopan maiden (myös Suomi) päätöslauselmaehdotus liittyen Ukrainan sotaan hyväksyttiin. Venäjä äänesti tietysti vastaan. Mutta tällä kertaa Venäjän seurana vastaan äänesti myös Yhdysvallat. 1/
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Top 5 lessons from the past 3yrs: 1) Ru isn’t a great power and Ukraine can prevail with proper support 2) Putin won’t escalate to ☢️ even if Ru territory is attacked 3) Ukrainian neutrality isn’t a solution because Ru doesn’t fear NATO 4) Ru society won’t stop the war 5) Ukraine's state is strong
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Maija Tervola @maijatervola.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Okay, thank you, mister president. 💪
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
All conversations ended in 2008. NATO membership for Ukraine was never on the table and the Russians knew it. In winter 2022, Putin repeatedly ignored attempts by the west to reassure him Ukr isn’t getting in. Mearsheimer’s name will live in infamy for eternity for coming up w this bs.
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Yan Matusevich @ymatusik.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Tajikistan remains the most remittance dependent country in the world. Kyrgyzstan’s dependency has gradually lessened, but still high
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Victoire historique : La loi pour taxer les milliardaires a été adoptée par l’Assemblée Nationale après d’intenses débats. C’est un pas de géant pour la France et cela pourrait inspirer d’autres pays. Une immense avancée !
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The Times of Central Asia @timesca.com · 21/02/2025
U.S. deported 200 migrants from Central Asia and India to Costa Rica timesca.com/central-asia... #HumanRights #MigrationIssues #Deportation #CentralAsia #CostaRica #US #India
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Central Asian Migrants In Group Being Deported by U.S. to Costa Rica - The Times Of Central Asia
A group of 200 migrants from Central Asia and India is scheduled to be flown from the United States to Costa Rica this week as part of the Trump
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language. —Joseph Brodsky
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Olesya Khromeychuk @okhromeychuk.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
‘Looking back at the 1930s, we used to wonder how it seemed that everybody could see war coming but do nothing to stop it. Now we understand, as we see the same mistakes repeated one after another.’ @keirgiles.bsky.social for @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/f268...
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Who will defend Europe?
Caught between an aggressive Russia and a disengaging America, the continent’s western democracies must now rearm — or pay the price
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leenasharma.bsky.social @leenasharma.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Tein jutun siitä, voisiko Yhdysvallat luisua Trumpin johdolla fasismiin. Keskustelin amerikkalaisten tutkijoiden kanssa: Heidän näkymänsä olivat synkkiä. Mutta on myös toivoa. Esimerkiksi siksi, että toisin kuin 30-luvun ihmiset, me tunnemme historiamme ja voimme tapella vastaan.
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Edes amerikkalaisista keskitys­leireistä puhuminen ei ole enää yliampuvaa  – voiko Yhdysvallat luisua fasismiin?
Karismaattinen johtaja, sisäiset viholliset, massojen vaistoihin vetoaminen... Yhdysvalloissa täyttyy jo monta fasismin tunnusmerkkiä.
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Waleed Shahid @waleedshahid.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Walter Benjamin: "Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves...The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life."
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Anni Kangas @kangasanni.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
”I knew that one day we might have to watch as capitalism and greed and bigotry led to a world where powerful men, deserving or not, would burn it all down. What I didn’t expect, and don’t think I could have foreseen, is how incredibly cringe it would all be.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
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Anni Kangas @kangasanni.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Tämä myös: ”Tieteellinen kirjoittaminen on luovaa toimintaa. Haluaisin viedä vertaisarviointia suuntaan, että luovaa kirjoittamista osattaisiin arvostaa. Leikillä on sijansa tieteen tekemisessä, kun keksitään jotakin uutta, kokeillaan, yritetään, erehdytään ja sitten lähdetään toiseen suuntaan.”
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Yan Matusevich @ymatusik.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
As Peter Leonard just tweeted, apparently the White House spokeswoman just mentioned Internews and their funding to fight disinformation in Kazakhstan as an example of “waste” Just so vile: independent media is already barely surviving in Central Asia
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/02/2025
"Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup." nymag.com/intelligence...
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Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number
The billionaire and his DOGE agents were reportedly granted full access to the Treasury’s federal payments system, and nobody knows to what end.
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Anni Kangas @kangasanni.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
What keeps the treadmill of Central Asian labour migration turning? Anonymous Artist and I attempt to answer this question in an article that was just published. doi.org/10.1093/sp/j...
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Anni Kangas @kangasanni.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Aiheellista luettavaa. Tutkimus on aina aikansa tuote ja siksi kriittinen itsereflektio on oleellinen osa tiedettä. Ps. Kummallista tosiaan, että @helsinkiuni.bsky.social ei ole muuttanut Aleksanteri-instituutin nimeä.
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pannierb.bsky.social @pannierb.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Human Rights Watch Calls Out 'Worsening' Situation In Central Asia www.rferl.org/a/majlis-pod...
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Human Rights Watch Calls Out 'Worsening' Situation In Central Asia
Human Rights Watch released its annual report about human rights around the world. The report points to a deterioration in rights in Central Asia. Joining host Bruce Pannier to discuss the report are ...
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Anni Kangas @kangasanni.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
The Central Asia group of the Finnish International Studies Association organized a session at the FISA biannual convention in Imatra.
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Anni Kangas @kangasanni.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Meidän ihan paras Keski-Aasia-työryhmä Kansainvälisten suhteiden seuran konferenssissa Imatran valtionhotellissa.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If she can do it, we can all do it.
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Audrey Alejandro @audreyalejandro.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
🔥 New forum: "Decentring Agency in World Politics: Writing for Reflexivity as a Collective Experiment" @journalpariss.bsky.social We explore writing practices that foster reflexivity within readers. We focus on one reflexive process: decentring & one problem: the denial of non-Western agency 🤓
How can we help each other, through our writing, in challenging the potentially harmful perceptions we have unconsciously acquired? How can we assist readers in becoming more reflexive about the things we write about? Here, we build bridges between the methodology of reflexivity and the methodology of writing, focusing on writing practices that aim at fostering reflexivity within our readers.
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Christina Warren @filmgirl.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Something fitting about all of this being relegated to being indoors. It feels so claustrophobic and also like a funeral
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Are you an experienced researcher with a focus on climate justice? The @ccj-ubc.bsky.social is hiring for a senior research manager. Join our team! ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcsta...
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Senior Research Manager, UBC Centre for Climate Justice
Staff - Non Union Job Category M&P - AAPS Job Profile AAPS Salaried - Research and Facilitation, Level C Job Title Senior Research Manager, UBC Centre for Climate Justice Department Centre for Cli...
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