This is the trade that pays for Putin's war. It sails within spitting distance of our coast on almost a daily basis.

How did this dark fleet appear? With the help of shipbrokers, lawyers and insurers in the City of London. newstatesman.com/the-weekend-re…

Fair is foul and foul is fair in the crooked mirror of Russia experts, Valdai stock. Is that the kind of Russia specialists (who for some reason pretend to be experts on Ukraine by extension) that McFoul... sorry, McFaul demands for?

Bashqort activists clearly speak against russian extractivist colonialism but some media portray it as a russian protest. Extractivism in action.

So, time to write my own thread on the case of Viacheslav #Morozov . Though I can't add much to the things already said by colleagues who knew him better, IR scholars might use this case to reflect on some important issues. 1/
theguardian.com/world/2024/jan…

One thing not discussed in Morozov’s case is many scholars from former Russian colonies deeply disagree with his critique of Russian imperialism.

Read Koplatadze’s amazing article explaining orientalist views within Russian post-colonial studies
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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Every Ukrainian downing of Russian hypersonic Kh-47M2 Kinzhal with the Patriot missiles will improve the Patriot missile intercept algorithm - and increase accuracy for all Patriot systems, a benefit for the US, the rest of NATO, and other Patriot AD users. The same goes for any