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samagreene.bsky.social
Professor of Russian Politics, King's College London. Director of Democratic Resilience, CEPA. Political sociologist. Progressive. Co-author, Putin v the People. 🇬🇧/🇺🇸
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Apparently, the deterrent effect of US investment in Ukraine is limited. www.ft.com/content/c320...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

A sobering discussion with @andriypzag.bsky.social and @neilmelvin.bsky.social for @rusi.bsky.social: the key ingredient for peace in Ukraine—Russian commitment—is absent. sites.libsyn.com/341255/can-r...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Anybody remember NFTs?

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Many thanks to the @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social for having me up for the day!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

At a loose end this Sunday afternoon? Somewhere in shouting distance of York? Join me at the @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social! yorkfestivalofideas.com/2025/calenda...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Tell me you don't know anything about Judaism without telling me you don't know anything about Judaism.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Define your political opponents as extremists. Abuse the power of the state to attack them. Cow institutions into submission. There's something oddly familiar about all of this... www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

What a marvelous phrase, “Englished by…”

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

A few thoughts for @ofmandaniel.bsky.social @theworld.org on the method behind Putin's dithering, together with @ksvarnon.bsky.social and Michael Cecire. theworld.org/segments/202...

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

This is a bizarre graph. If you look at it quickly, you’d think EU exports to Ukraine were falling. On closer inspection, it’s the opposite — because they inverted the Y-axis. Why?

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

Thoughts on Putin's Istanbul two-step: Don’t invest your pension pot in a peace play just yet. tldrussia.substack.com/p/tldrussia-...

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Thoughts on “Victory Day” for @ofmandaniel.bsky.social & @theworld.org, with Ivan Grek & Victoria Smolkin theworld.org/segments/202...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Oh ffs: no, the graduate visa scheme did not lead to an elevenfold increase in overseas students in the UK from 2020 to 2023. Reclassifying EU students as overseas students as of August 2021 did that. on.ft.com/4crwsVV

submitted 41 days ago • 8 comments

Seen in Britain

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

I’m going to take this as good news. The purpose of Rubio’s presence would have been to browbeat Zelensky into submission and get a bad deal over the line. Harder to do with no big guns there. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/w...

submitted 56 days ago • 4 comments

Putin's cease-fire offer is an attempt to achieve at the negotiating table what he cannot achieve on the battleground: the neutering of Ukraine as a sovereign entity. TL;DR: It's not about territorial control. (A 🧵) /1

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

For all its faults, the US played an important role in helping to end European colonial rule in Africa. Shifting to an overt policy of neo-colonial extraction—while ending development assistance and ceding genuine diplomacy to China and Russia—is … staggering.

submitted 59 days ago • 7 comments

This performative humanitarianism is almost certainly designed as a response to Washington’s performative frustration — but it’s not even enough time for Ukrainians to bury the victims of some of the war’s most wanton attacks on civilians. on.ft.com/42pyWko

submitted 59 days ago • 6 comments