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Sarah Lawrynuik

@sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social
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Audio correspondent @economist.com; reporting on & posting about Ukraine, climate change, dystopian reality, Canada. Bylines at CBC News, @canadaland.com, @theguardian.com, etc. ☕️ Runs on: curiosity, coffee, sarcasm. 🇨🇦 in 🇬🇧/🇺🇦

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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Sometimes I have altogether too much fun at work 🖤 my latest: Emo culture was not just a phase, as it turns out economist.com/culture/2026... from The Economist
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Emo culture was not just a phase, as it turns out
The business of misery is thriving as emo bands go back on tour
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Honoured to be listed here among such talent, highlighting the darkest corners of the world. 🏆
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Tickled to see my photos from 2020 in Churchill in @thenarwhal.ca. What a special place… whales, bears… nothing but perfect 🐻‍❄️ thenarwhal.ca/manitoba-hud...
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Manitoba and Canada eye Hudson Bay conservation area | The Narwhal
‘The need for action has never been more urgent,’ Manitoba environment minister says of the Hudson Bay region
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The Economist @economist.com · 27/01/2026
Ukraine’s war-torn energy infrastructure is creaking during a brutal winter. How do Kyiv’s residents deal with constant cuts? Sarah Lawrynuik investigates, on “The Intelligence” bit.ly/4k7J34y
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
One strategy of disinformation is to mix true and false claims, so that people don’t believe anything anymore. Skepticism breeds cynicism, and cynicism breeds disengagement in the political process, which is the whole point. www.cnn.com/2026/01/24/u...
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Videos appear to show federal officer took gun from Alex Pretti just before fatal shooting, CNN analysis finds | CNN
A CNN analysis of video appears to show a federal immigration officer removing a gun from Alex Pretti just prior to officers fatally shooting him.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 25/01/2026
Arctic sea-ice extent is still lowest on record for the date as of January 24th, about 63,000 km² below the previous record low for the date, set in 2018. Will 2026 beat the record low maximum set just last year? The Climate 8-Ball is busy stocking its bunker.
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Latest from me on the slow motion disaster unfolding at Chernobyl ☢️ economist.com/europe/2026/...
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A Russian drone has revived a Ukrainian nuclear nightmare
But who is prepared to pour even more money into making the country safe?
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
A climate deal without explicit language calling for a fossil fuel phaseout is like a ceasefire without explicit language calling for a suspension of hostilities. #COP30
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
This story is absolutely wild.
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Back in Tbilisi, Georgia and this is day 356 of constant daily protests as the country continues its steep democratic backslide
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The Economist @economist.com · 11/11/2025
Rosie Blau, co-host of “The Intelligence”, examines post-war accountability and retribution
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The War Room newsletter: Nuremberg 80 years on, a reckoning
Rosie Blau, co-host of “The Intelligence”, examines post-war accountability and retribution
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The Economist @economist.com · 20/10/2025
“Everything is gone. No home, no work, no life.” On “The Intelligence” Sarah Lawrynuik asks people in Gaza what they expect from the future
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Voices of Gaza: life amid a fragile peace
Also on the daily podcast: a cycling revolution and left-handed athletes
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The Economist @economist.com · 09/10/2025
“Research started with plants in space.” Sarah Lawrynuik tells “The Intelligence” why red-light masks may actually work bit.ly/3WsOQq7
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Crushed to hear of the passing of the incredible Ken Dryden. To the world, he was among the most famous NHLers. A lawyer, a politician. To me, he was a professor and mentor. And the biggest reason I became a journalist. My condolences to his family. He was a truly great man.
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Meanwhile, in Canada 🇨🇦
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
⚡️🏳️‍🌈After Viktor Orbán’s government passed an anti-LGBT law to ban the Pride march in Hungary, Budapest mayor Gergely Karácsony announced the city will officially organize Budapest Pride as a municipal event on June 28. This means the ban won’t apply: police can’t disperse the crowd or issue fines.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 10/06/2025
Finland says Russian military aircraft suspected of violating its airspace reut.rs/3TjfaRW
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Finland says Russian military aircraft suspected of violating its airspace
A Russian military aircraft is suspected of having violated Finnish airspace on Tuesday, Finland's defence ministry said in a statement.
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Aryn Braun @arynbraun.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I’ve spent years covering both immigration and Los Angeles and sending National Guard troops to LA feels like “a thinly-veiled message to Democratic-run places that retribution awaits those who would stand between immigrants and the administration’s deportation machine” economist.com/united-state...
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Sending the National Guard to LA is not about stopping rioting
The city is being punished for resisting the Trump administration’s deportation efforts
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
At the end of the Independence Day, fireworks were launched again. Just yesterday, an activist was jailed for 30 days over a single firework launch. Yet here we are, launching it again. ✊🏻 Fireworks have become our symbol, and it’s now banned for that reason. #GeorgiaProtests
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Truly horrific night for Kyiv
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
"Her head was shaved, her neck bruised and burn marks on her feet, according to officials. Medical examiners found a broken rib and possible traces of electric shock. Some of her organs, including her brain, had been removed." www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
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She tried to expose Russia’s brutal detention system — and ended up dead
A consortium of international journalists continued the work of Viktoriia Roshchyna, who was investigating reports of torture and detention of Ukrainian civilians in occupied Ukraine.
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David Rennie @dsorennie.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Five European countries that border Russia have announced their exit from a treaty banning landmines. My column, The Telegram, reported from Lithuania, where officials say they are securing the frontier between the liberal world and Vladimir Putin’s blood-soaked empire economist.com/internationa...
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The ugly task of Putin-proofing your border
Russia’s European neighbours hate landmines. They are installing them anyway
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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 15/04/2025
Canada: Where we reschedule our politics around a late-season hockey game with major playoff implications.
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Time changed for French-language debate due to Montreal Canadiens game | CBC News
The New Democratic Party is requesting that Wednesday evening's French-language debate be postponed rather than held on the same night the Habs are making what could be their last chance to clinch a p...
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Britain’s prison system is crumbling under the strain. Crowded, decrepit, understaffed and full of vermin. Recidivism rates that show this is likely to continue in perpetuity. And yet — there is a bright spot. A prison that could offer lessons of how to do better 🎧 www.economist.com/twi-the-pris...
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The prison that works
A little-known, sixty-year experiment in treating hardened criminals through therapy
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
It is a routine Soviet and now Russian practice to accept an agreement and immediately violate it, in a small way, to see what the enforcement boundary is. If you don’t respond, they’ll push it further to check. Not sure they even see this as dishonest, it’s an assumed part of relations.
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Let's goooooo, Canada! 👀 🗳️ In the words of my unnamed (but numerous) international office mates, "Canadian politics is finally getting interesting."
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
“Turkey is nearing a point of no return. Only last week, its government was still what political scientists call a competitive authoritarian regime…But on March 19th police detained Mr Imamoglu, who has emerged as Mr Erdogan’s strongest rival. What remains is close to naked autocracy.”
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President Erdogan jails his rival, and endangers Turkey’s democracy
Ekrem Imamoglu’s supporters have chosen him to run anyway
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
When the rumours circulated that Mark Carney wanted to take a run at being Canadian PM, I thought it would come with forward-looking climate policy. Not… the symbolic first-move roll back of Canada’s tax on pollution. How disappointing. My latest for @theglobeandmail.com:
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Opinion: The deeply demoralizing betrayal by Carney, climate finance wonk
Mark Carney, one of the world’s most reputable climate finance wonks, has become Prime Minister of Canada. He immediately killed the carbon tax
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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 19/03/2025
“The Trump administration has terminated a US-funded initiative that documents alleged Russian war crimes, including a sensitive database detailing the mass deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, according to officials familiar with the directive and documents obtained by The Washington Post.”
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Trump terminates program tracking mass abductions of Ukrainian children
Observers fear the move has compromised evidence of war crimes by Russian officials and will hinder efforts to rescue thousands of missing Ukrainian children.
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
It just doesn’t *feel* like Russia is interested in a ceasefire…
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Who had this bromance on their dystopian bingo card?
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The air raid blares in Kyiv… let’s see what Moscow has in store the night a prospective ceasefire deal has been tabled. (But also the night after Kyiv struck Moscow with ~300 drones…)
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
“For ten days, since the shouting-match in the Oval Office, Ukraine has been scorched by Donald Trump’s wrath,” @olliecarroll.bsky.social writes. “Now comes a moment of catharsis—or another round of brutal punishment.” economist.com/europe/2025/...
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
What a moment to be heading back to Ukraine! For the first time I’ll be wearing a Canadian flag on my kit… I was advised by a contact in the military that if I want people to speak with me, better I not be mistaken for an American…
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Know Your Meme @knowyourmeme.com · 09/01/2025
On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Russian propaganda when they shoot down civilian airliners is always weird, but this is, well, new.
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
🇬🇪 Accounts of violence against protesters continue, even if it’s no longer in front of news cameras. And yet, Georgians dance down Rustaveli, they sip tea under the twinkling Christmas lights. Will their persistence hold out? My latest for @economist.com www.economist.com/europe/2024/...
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Police brutality is not stopping Georgia’s protests
Pro-EU demonstrations continue, despite little help from abroad
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Jesse Brown @jessebrown.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Here are my 10 favourite Canadaland episodes of 2024: #10 Brain Disease ‘Mystery’ Still Unsolved, Scientists Say A story Canadaland alum @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social has been chipping away at for us for years, with help from @cheriseseucharan.bsky.social And now the pressure is on Ottawa...
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#1002 Brain Disease ‘Mystery’ Still Unsolved, Scientists Say
Email leaks from medical experts throw new light on mysterious neurological disease in New Brunswick.
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The Economist calls for the UK and Europe to step up for the people of #GeorgiaProtests. “If you needed an emblem of the EU’s shameful weakness in the face of autocracy, [the case in Georgia] would be hard to beat.” www.economist.com/leaders/2024...
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Keep the Caucasus safe from Russia
The protesters and the president need help
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Scenes from day 21 (yesterday) at #GeorgiaProtests 🇬🇪 Back to London for me for Christmas… but it seems sure I’ll be back sooner or later…
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Why is the whole world falling apart rn? 🥲
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
In Georgia, protesters are now in their 3rd week of protesting against the ruling Georgian Dream party. This weekend GD elected a new president and his name was the only one on the ballot. Another show of democratic backsliding and the people are saying, “enough.” For @economist.com
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Protests, but make them festive! ✨ Day 19 in Tbilisi 🇬🇪 #georgiaprotests
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
🇬🇪 From a weekend of fraught Christmas tree lightings, and mountaineers taking to the streets of Tbilisi — my latest from Georgia for @economist.com www.economist.com/europe/2024/...
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Scenes from day 17 in Tbilisi
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Katie Shoshiashvili @kshoshiashvili.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
All of Tbilisi is gridlocked, with multiple protests happening simultaneously across the city. People walked off their jobs between 1 and 2 PM to join the general strike. Central streets of Tbilisi are blocked, the city is paralyzed.
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Tbilisi, scenes from day 12 🇬🇪
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 08/12/2024
"The scenes today in Damascus—the toppling of statues, the taking selfies of the dictator’s palace—are the same ones that will unfold in Caracas, Tehran, or Moscow on the day the soldiers of those regimes lose their faith in the leadership, and the public loses their fear of those soldiers too"
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Batumelebi&Netgazeti @netgazeti.org · 08/12/2024
00:00 December 9 - #Tbilisi “Irakli, in language you can understand: WE DEMAND NEW ELECTION,” reads a banner on the Christmas tree construction. Earlier today, Irakli Kobakhidze claimed that protesters are not even demanding snap elections. #GeorgiaProtests
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Sarah Lawrynuik @sarahlawrynuik.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Tbilisi, Day 10 #GeorgiaProtests
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