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Tomila Lankina

@t-vl.bsky.social
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Professor at LSE. Political scientist teaching at LSE International Relations Department. Honored to be Chief Editor of @postsovietaffairs.bsky.social. Currently finishing a book on the history of Dissent in Russia

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Post-Soviet Affairs Journal @postsovietaffairs.bsky.social · 14h
How do you get published in a journal like Post-Soviet Affairs? Over the next 4 days, our team is sharing advice based on the many submissions we read! First, Editor Tomila Lankina on originality, evidence, and the abstract. 👇🧵
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Post-Soviet Affairs Journal @postsovietaffairs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How does democracy function in wartime Ukraine? What constrains Zelensky's administration? Is there democratic accountability? Discover all in Pavlo Otamas' new article in Post-Soviet Affairs ⬇️
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Brian Taylor @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A Trumpian tale in 4 acts: 1) Trump admin illegally closes down programs responsible for higher ed foreign language & int'l education; 2) Congress puts (some of the) $$ back in; 3) New grant competition is announced, schools apply; 4) Trump illegally cancels funds. Crazy xenophobic vandals
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Tomila Lankina @t-vl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Great lineup of papers in latest issue of @postsovietaffairs.bsky.social already getting a lot of attention! Spread the word
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Tomila Lankina @t-vl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sound move from the UK, but why has it taken them so long to wake up? Many of us Russia experts in UK have been talking to policy makers about Russia's disinformation for years (see on Russian disinformation in Ukraine: researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/68...) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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New UK agency to fight ‘information warfare’ from likes of Russia, Burnham tells UN
PM aims to ‘stem poisonous tide’ of disinformation and deepfakes with National Centre for Information Defence
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Post-Soviet Affairs Journal @postsovietaffairs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One from our archives, from 1993: "Russia, Ukraine, and the Imperial Legacy"
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Russia, Ukraine, and the Imperial Legacy
Published in Post-Soviet Affairs (Vol. 9, No. 4, 1993)
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Post-Soviet Affairs Journal @postsovietaffairs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Why did Central Asian states bring home citizens linked to ISIS when so many other governments refused? Elena Zhirukhina's brand new article has the answer ⬇️❗️
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When society, identity, and security align: repatriation strategies in Central Asia
Thousands of nationals, referred to as foreign terrorist fighters and their families, who travelled to Syria and Iraq with the Islamic State and other groups, had remained in detention sites in nor...
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Anton Barbashin @abarbashin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Now that Duma election is over. How likely is the new wave of #mobilization in Russia and what would it look like? Olga Irisova and I surveyed 16 military experts and 10 experts on Russian elites to find out. 1/3
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