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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Russian Foreign Ministry statement is out and is extremely soft, calls for “prevention of further escalation and to focus on finding a way to advance through dialogue”.

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The most British way of fighting the British

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Congrats to @joannalillis.bsky.social on the London launch of Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

OFAC clarifies that it is Trump Admin’s policy that it will only approve of sales of Lukoil International’s assets (which Gunvor was willing to pay $22 billion for) if that sale does not see money actually flow to Lukoil while sanctions on Lukoil remain ofac.treasury.gov/faqs/1224

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

башня Татлина жив! Но, в Англии (Tatlin’s tower lives, but in England…)

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

To quote a colleague, "Tamerlane would be proud"

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Doggo enjoying the Holland Park Opera’s practice sessions

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Idk what’s crazier, the CIA-KGB combined mortgage financing or the $40k upper east side two bedroom apartment

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

If Trump agrees to this stupidity, it will be a devastating mistake. There is a zero percent chance Putin would follow through with the second phase.

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The 1% decrease in Libya’s threatened tariff rate is the funniest example of how nonsensical Trump’s tariff numbers are. Libya is divided by two rival governments & has no real trade negotiations with the US. 99% of Libyan exports to the US is crude oil, which is tariff exempt.

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

5 years of gardening and dog raising hobbies led to this photo

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Live from John Bolton’s bedroom:

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Real duality of reality vibes from the FT this weekend

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Things you see in west london …

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The Caucasus: where your major world historical geopolitical conflict plays second fiddle to arguments over who lived on one side of one particular valley in 1897 according to the last Russian imperial census

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Finally in my possession, two nearly 100 year old copies of Georgian children’s magazine ‘Nakaduli’ (The Brook). I look forward to spending the next 100 years translating, particularly the songs! (Thanks to @aaron-schwa.bsky.social for alerting me to their sale!)

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Things that also happened at the end of the Roman Empire for $100 please

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The first spotting of the new paperback edition of ‘Economic War: Ukraine and the Global Conflict between Russia and the West’ in bookshops! Thanks to Pippa Crawford

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The first paperback copies of ‘Economic War’ are here. Simultaneously, my WW2 poster employing one to “Buy (Treasury) Bonds for peace and security” arrived. As the afterword is on how the US’s domestic policy is a bigger threat to the international economic order Russia is, seems pretty apt!

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

This might be the worst case of Cyrillic abuse I have seen in quite a few years

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Setting out my stall in Trump’s anti-American tariff tantrum. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Russian oligarch Boris Rotenberg's wife Karina seems to have had her whole US SDN sanctions designation lifted. In the early 2000s she was living in Georgia (the state) & married to an American, had some notable US property investments per @occrp.org t.co/b8Dhgtpunf ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actio...

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

50 US Senators have introduced a bill that includes the most intense Russia sanctions to date: a 500% additional tariff on any countries buying Russian hydrocarbons & uranium, putting SWIFT into law, and perma-freezing Russian sovereign debt & securities. Wow. ciosenus.app.box.com/s/moy15li8j8...

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Russia demands end of sanctions on Rosselkhozbank for energy ceasefire to come into effect. It is under financial sanctions under Executive Order 13662 which requires Congress' approval to lift cause of CAATSA (post-2022 sanctions Trump can unilaterally lift). Unclear if Russia's ask includes all..

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Pour one out for the Reuters intern who has confused a Scandinavian airline with Britain’s elite military unit

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

France to use €195m in interest from Russian frozen assets to fund Ukraine. Should be more available as it reported €22bln in frozen Russian state assets in '22. (biggest pile of Russian frozen assets of any country after Belgium's €210bln - used to finance €50bln for Ukraine & UK estimate ≈£20bln)

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

RIP Gene, the best to ever do it.

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Today I went back to my old boarding school. Walking into the dinning hall here for the first time & not knowing where to sit would determine my career. I saw a table that I thought must have been Americans. Turned out they were all Georgians, Russians, Kazakhs, & Ukrainians, who quickly accepted me

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Valentine’s Day, love shines even in the darkest times and places. “I would hug you, but I am only text” - Timofey Radya (2013, Ekaterinburg)

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Eine Lehre für deutschen Wählern. Hätten amerikanischen Konservativen ihren Prinzipien treu geblieben und sich gegen Trump zusammengeschlossen, hätten sie ihre Partei nicht an ihm und seine Mitläufer nicht verloren. Ende des Brandmauers würde zur Ende des CDU/CSU führen.

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

George Clinton on the U.S. dollar system

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This is a public service announcement that if you like Central European food, there is nowhere better in London than Bohemia House. It’s also a bit of a museum as the building was home to the Czechoslovak legion during the Second World War.

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Thank my stepdad for the garish taste

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Shevardnadze's Granddaughter did it first! The post-Sovietisation of America continues...

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A British World War II poster of a Soviet World War II poster, latest addition to the collection

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

American family claim refugee status in Russia to flee “LGBTQ culture in Texas”, they soon get swindled out of $50k in scam claiming to help them avoid sanctions on trading dollars to roubles. Police refuse to help. Russian propaganda makes it into a video about loving Jesus. 10/10 no notes.

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

One of my favorite movies after all

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The Sovietization of America continues

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Even cold Sundays are for the boys

A five year old Airedale terrier named Koba sat on top of Parliament Hill in Hampstead Heath, London, on a cold and foggy Sunday 19 January 2025

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Happy Christmas, from my happy place

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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

One comparison is to situation to Ukraine in 2013, Ivanishvili & Georgian Dream were not under public pressure from Putin when they made the move, whereas Yanukovych faced hostility from Moscow to abandon EU association agreement agenda.

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