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To date, I've had in the last month: 💠 2 undergrad students marooned abroad because they were working for companies sponsored by USAID. We're now paying for their subsistence out of a Canadian grant. (1/5)

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Canada might want to pump the brakes on any talk of a free trade agreement with the UK if Starmer's too scared of publicly disagreeing with Trump to say that maybe the US shouldn't try to annex an ally. www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps...

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

💯. The fact that they're wielding a sledgehammer, not a scalpel, is pretty much the point.

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

DoD terminates Minerva grants and State Dept eliminates Title VIII summer language institutes on the same day. Coming on the heels of COVID, there’s going to be gaping holes in international expertise in the US for a generation. /slow clap

submitted 14 hours ago • 13 comments

Speaking to the FSB, Putin praises Trump for "pragmatism" and foregoing "stereotypes, so-called rules, and messianic ideological slogans." And then calls on using diplomacy and special services to thwart Western elites seeking to disrupt Russian-US dialogue. www.kommersant.ru/doc/7536152?...

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Nemtsov. 10 years gone, murdered as he prepared a report on why Putin needed war in Ukraine.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Ten years ago today the Russian opposition politician & fierce Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov was shot dead on a bridge opposite Red Square.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

On the face of it, the implications appear to be that the US gets privileged access to Ukraine's minerals and the profits get earmarked for Ukraine's redevelopment. Could be worse (and would have been worse if Ukraine hadn't pushed back on the two earlier drafts).

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CPCS has a couple of special issues in process that focus on the challenges of conducting research in the midst of war. This is the first article from the issue on "Emergency Response Research and Documentation in Comparative Perspective," guest edited by Anna Wylegala & Natalia Otrishchenko.

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A US commitment to Ukraine's rebuilding is a start but it matters little without security guarantees for Ukraine. The US is clearly happy to profit from Ukraine's reconstruction while leaving Ukraine's security to Europe. www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Hot take (from r/Canada): This is The Phantom Menace and Canadians are Gungans. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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READ: EETN Policy Brief, Security in the Heartland: Navigating Russia, China, And Central Asia’s Interaction, written by Faramarz Tamanna. Check it out here: carleton.ca/eetn/2025/se...

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Anatolia Gruzd (Toronto Metro Univ) on the effectiveness of Russian disinformation in Canada: one-third of Canadians apparently believe Ukraine was somehow the aggressor.

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Back in 2016, one of my interview respondents in Russia said he was optimistic about future relations with the US because “everything can change overnight.” He might have had regime change in mind, though I don’t think he meant the US.

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Fact checking Trump on Zelensky’s popularity and democracy in Ukraine. 👇

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Carolina Vendil Pallin: Russia hacked into Ukrainian population registries to map people and target them during occupations.

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Carolina Vendil Pallin (Swedish Defence Research Agency) on unintended consequences of war: Russia became most attacked country in cyber space in 2022. Not only Ukraine's counter-attacks, but attacks from within Russia from cyber criminals that it previously protected.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Looking forward to this excellent conference on "The Russo-Ukrainian War: Russia's information warfare strategies in comparative perspective." I'll be there with members of the @eetn.bsky.social team in Ottawa! ruwconference.ca

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

For any nationalism scholars working on sports & nationalism, this is today's CBC news landing page. You're welcome.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

New Research Note: Assessing Socialist Past and Sociodemographic Present: The Composition of Political Elites in Central and Eastern Europe from 1990 to 2020 by H. Pleines, C. Cordes, M. zum Felde, E. Paustyan, M. Rochlitz, & E. Somfalvy Free to access for one week! doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Norwegian scholars are particularly well represented in this issue! (not a complaint)

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New in Advance Articles: Define a Dragon: China’s History Narratives in Contemporary Russian Textbooks as Usable Past by Marharyta Fabrykant online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Just so we're clear: Hegseth, or whoever wrote his talking points, has taken both NATO membership and a return to pre-2014 borders (which themselves reflect Russian aggression) off the table before negotiating with the Russians. Idiotic from a bargaining stance, not just morally bankrupt

submitted 15 days ago • 62 comments

Not that it's any surprise, but seems pretty clear that any negotiation is going to privilege Russian interests.

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As was always highly likely, the Trump administration has given Russia what it wanted on Ukraine's NATO membership and Ukraine's borders. It's also making it clear that it has no interest in Ukraine's security. 🧵 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Comparativists:

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

For some reason, I recall an incident ~15 years ago in Norman, Oklahoma - a notoriously liberal enclave in a deep red state - when voters approved a city tax increase to fund overdue raises for sanitation workers. The beneficiaries celebrated by dumping our garbage all over the streets.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Recently published: In the Name of “Freedom” and “Democracy”: Causes of Voting for the Radical Right in the Czech Republic by Pavel Maškarinec & Lukáš Novotný Free to access for one week! doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

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💯. I’ll just add: trust your faculty and enforce your standards instead of outsourcing to journals. And let’s be real: programs do this because you don't have to pay an honorarium to a journal’s editors and reviewers (unlike an external examiner). It’s an abuse of the system.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

In case you needed a reason to stop using Google Maps:

submitted 17 days ago • 15 comments

Pro-tip for academic authors: when submitting a manuscript for a special issue, it's not good form to list the issue's guest editors as potential reviewers.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Apropos nothing in particular, some might find useful this excellent "state of the field" essay on economic nationalism by Thomas Fetzer from @nationalitiesp.bsky.social : www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Giving up on ResearchGate was perhaps the most ambivalent thing I've ever done. I feel... nothing.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Latest issue of the indispensable Russian Analytical Digest is out: No. 323: Siloviki. Short, sharp articles by @markgaleotti.bsky.social, Pavel Luzin, Kurt Haven, Margarete Klein, & me. Edited by @faburkhardt.bsky.social. Abstract of my piece in next post. 1/2 css.ethz.ch/en/publicati...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

I'm just going to leave this here: "At the end of the day, Canada is many things. But above all else, we’re a bunch of grudge holding motherfuckers." www.thebeaverton.com/2025/02/edit...

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New in Advance Articles: Power Preservation, No Matter the Means: Populism and Conspiracy Theory as Instruments of Political Consolidation in Serbia by Vladimir Vučković, Branislav Radeljić, and Vladimir Đorđević doi.org/10.1525/cpcs...

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