New public bans of titled accounts on chess.com.
They are rare, expect ~5 posts a month.
In some cases, chess.com removes a player's title after a ban for some unknown reason. I won't post those.
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Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent based in London
Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
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#Turkey & neighbouring regions, human rights, politics, political violence | #HJK & Finnish football | Dogs | Tea, not coffee | EN, FI, TR.
Director of @boell.de South Caucasus Office, based in Tbilisi.
German & EU foreign policy | Wider Europe | democracy & autocracy | peace & security | feminism. PhD from FU Berlin. FirstGen. All views personal.
Scholar-practitioner, contemporary South Caucasus politics & regional dynamics | Armenian-Azerbaijani relations | associate fellow, Chatham House | co-editor-in-chief, Caucasus Survey
Iowan in Tbilisi. Senior analyst, South Caucasus, International Crisis Group.
Writer, journalist, amateur linguist. DEATH IS OUR BUSINESS out with Bloomsbury March 2025. BEGINNER’S CHECHEN out with Hippocrene
https://www.johnlechnerauthor.com/
Conflicts and security issues in the South Caucasus. Former senior analyst at Crisis Group and journalist at the New York Times & Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. King's College London/War Studies alumna. Contact me at olesya.vartanyan@gmail.com
Tbilisian in Kraków. Making a relocation from Twitter. Interest in Tbilisi stories, some politics & enjoy a good podcast. Arsenal fan. Not on here to pick fights.
Linguist & Caucasologist • Professor at the Free University of Tbilisi • Research languages of the Caucasus, the Tonkawa language • Author of 'Tonkawa Texts' • Weekly Georgian Etymologies
Academic research: https://freeuni.academia.edu/ThomasWier
Eurasian politics and foreign affairs, covering Russia, former Soviet space, Turkey and Syria. I focus on conflicts, political crises & narratives. Senior Analyst RCDS.am. Member @fromtheperiphery.com. Fellow thersa.org. Substack: itskarena.com
Professor @unifau.bsky.social Erlangen Germany, Geography, Ethics
#Georgia, #SouthCaucasus
Research in the field of geography, books via https://stefan-applis-geographien.com/
OERde educational issues, #bluelz #twlz #bllz https://doinggeoandethics.com
Open Caucasus Media — the Caucasus with depth. News, commentary, and multimedia from the North and South Caucasus.
Co-founder and CFO at @ocmedia.bsky.social. Pronounced [t͡saˈɡara]. 🇵🇱🇪🇺
Journalist and editor, providing news and analysis on the drastic reversal of liberal democratic values in Georgia 🇬🇪 Supporting Ukraine with all my heart and passion 🇺🇦
Reporter and photojournalist based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Co-founder and Executive Director at OC Media
Researcher focused on Azerbaijan, authoritarianism, nationalism. Post-structuralist, into Lacan, Laclau, Derrida, Zizek. Currently doing PhD in Political Science at Charles University in Prague.
A gentleman and a scholar. South Caucasus
Doctoral researcher at Lund University. Views are mine. https://linktr.ee/shotakincha
Serial procrastinator and editor-in-chief at OC Media. Host of the Caucasus Digest podcast.
Caucasus academic journal: https://brill.com/view/journals/casu/casu-overview.xml
Researcher, international development consultant.
Europe, Caucasus, Middle East, Africa, bad puns.
Not Dmitry Medvedev.
Not quite the master of understatement.
Interest in policy, think tanks, Caucasus, dogs, ethics. Teach at Ilia State University.
|🇬🇪Georgia|🏔️Caucasus | Strictly personal | Raadslid D66 Delft (Ruimte&Verkeer - mobiliteit, parkeren, fiets, energietransitie)
www: https://eastwatch.eu
writer, investigative journalist | 2025 Livingston Award finalist, Amnesty Media Award shortlistee | 2024 John Schofield Trust fellow | contact via willneal.org/
Researcher; Georgia, the EU and Eurasia; IR Theory; GMF's ReThink.CEE Fellow 2023; Queen Mary University of London graduate.
Political analyst;
Professor at Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA).
Political commentator on International Security.
Researcher | Europe, Eurasia & Caucasus | Seen in @ForeignPolicy.com, @France24.com, @cepa.org and @bylinetimes.bsky.social
Oxford History MPhil student. Interested in the history/politics of Eurasia.
Droa Party Foreign Affairs. Lecturer, researcher. CEE Europe & Central Asia governance, identity, hybrid threats. University of St Andrews alumna. NAFO.
dr. public and social policy @charlesuni.cuni.cz / south caucasus / international development, civil society, authoritarian policy-making
The Insider is a Russia-focused, independent media outlet. We're fully committed to investigative journalism and to debunking fake news.
theins.press/en
Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia, International Institute for Strategic Studies. Contributing editor, Survival. Fmr Ambassador to Belarus. Film-maker. Stalking survivor. Views mine.
Политик, историк, публицист, бывший з/к / Russian opposition politician, historian, author, former prisoner
Author, Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia, from @hurstpublishers (UK) and Oxford University Press (US). Russia geek. Lots of priors. https://amzn.eu/d/akcwgL6 & https://a.co/d/godZKis
Russia & Ukraine reporter @afpnews.bsky.social
Now: Warsaw
Before: Moscow, Tbilisi, Prague, London
jake.cordell@afp.com
Russia, Ukraine, Belarus Editor at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
Historian of Southeast Europe and the global Cold War. Researcher at the Institute of contemporary history in Ljubljana. Editor at the Programming Historian. Language nerd.
📍Ljubljana/Belgrade/Paris
digitalkosovski.github.io
Senior Fellow @CEU Democracy Institute and Research Affiliate @Refugee Law Initiative, University of London. Migration, asylum and human rights
📓Author of The Concept of Marriages of Convenience in EU Free Movement Law: EU and UK Perspectives (Brill,2024)
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Prof int'l law & int'l relations, Central European University
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www.patryklabuda.com
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International law, peace and security, global history
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Global South-East(ern Europe) relations
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Formerly DRC, Sudans, Tunisia/Libya, Senegal
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Philosopher / global (health) justice, critical perspectives on East-West hierarchies of knowledge / decolonial, antifascist and CEE feminisms and art / she/they/Dr
RUTA Association (Board Member), CEE Feminist Research Network, IRG-GHJ
Historian of international crime, international law, human rights and the illiberal right in Germany at ZZF Potsdam. Also teaching at FU Berlin. he/him. Principal Investigator: #OtherGlobalGermany and #il_liberal
Max Weber Fellow @EUI | History PhD @UChicago | Modern Germany, Poland, East Central Europe | Migration and Empire
• PhD Researcher in Intellectual History, European University Institute
• 20th century, Cold War, Marxism, Liberalism, Eastern Europe
• Convenor @inthiseui.bsky.social
• Graduate Associate @gpolthought.bsky.social
• Formerly @jhideas.bsky.social
Romanian/German sociologist, Head of School of the Global Studies Program @UniFreiburg, writes about global inequalities, empire, race, citizenship & forgotten Europes https://tinyurl.com/wbt9wyrm
Political sociologist @sussex.ac.uk, writing on #racialisation, political economy of race-making, east-west inequalities in Europe, #migration, political resistance: Reader in #Sociology & Director @sei-sussex.bsky.social
Reading and writing
https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/central-europe/
I write books and academic things. OG AI hater.
https://jsubotic.com
I have a new book! "The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution" https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-art-of-status-9780198909750?lang=3n&cc=at#
Art historian. Currently working on a book about visual art and Witold Gombrowicz
academia & ngo (or in the reverse order); writing in my own name; she/her; book on orientalism and Eastern Europe published with @berghahnbooks in 2022
IR theory, world order, non-state actors, polity formation, new medievalism, postmodernity.
Assistant Professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Research Associate at the University of Sussex, and a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute.
Historian, author. Past: GLOBALISTS, CRACK-UP CAPITALISM, HAYEK’S BASTARDS. Next: MUSKISM with Ben Tarnoff. Preorder here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530 quinnslobodian.com
post-doc in sociology | https://www.leuphana.de/institute/isko/personen/alexander-leistner.html | research network “The Contested Legacy of 1989“ http://erbe89.de | taskforce www.waysacrossthecountry.de
#firstgen
"Für ein offnes Land mit freien Menschen."
Political economist & social theorist, currently researching knowledge, phenomenology, and computation in the Cold War (not always in that order) | Author of books | Scholar of trivial topics | Personal account | besnikpula.com
historian | food security, autarky, and environment in modern german and international history
@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social | visiting fellow @remarquenyu.bsky.social
Historian of gender, sexuality and sex work in Central Eastern Europe. PhD in progress on transnational sex tourism/ masculinity/ transactional intimacy in state-socialist Hungary. HU Berlin.
Brit abroad. Critical friend of the EU. Foreign Policy analyst (EU, Russia, UK, US) at Leiden University. Teaching = my way of not despairing about the world. Of course they're my views.
Ukrainian academic in the UK | LSE Fellow in Qualitative Methodology | PhD from UCL SSEES | Research: security, critical IR & post-Soviet politics: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/People/Academic-Staff/Bohdana-Kurylo/Bohdana-Kurylo
Music historian @University of Edinburgh | East Germany, 2nd-3rd World musical relations, cultural diplomacy
Current book project: Music and Anti-Imperial Solidarity: East Germany and the Third World
PhD from Central European University | Historical IR and Eastern European politics | Working on a conceptual history of neutrality
Associate Professor, University of Utah. German, Central and Eastern European History. Environmental and Transnational History.
Prof. of English Literature, Jesus College, Univ. of Oxford.
E-m British & European literature, history, & political thought; succession; parliamentary culture & Indigenous assemblies.
Pole in GB; pro-Ukraine; contra anti-Semitism. All views mine alone.
PhD at University of Cambridge on modernism, East-Central Europe & political geography. Researcher and writer - words in The TLS, The Public Domain Review and more; on BBC Radio 3.
https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/graduates/Juliette.Bretan
Migration scholar, anthropologist, Kdrama addict, novel reader, mom to one human and two canines
bloging at
https://www.elzbietagozdziak.com/
https://www.goodbeginnings.blog/
Historian of Central Eastern Europe. Socialist things, industrial exhibitions and cultural bureaucracies. Also @SHERAart.bsky.social
International Political Economy, banking and finance, Eastern Europe, Vienna
Balkan girl uncovering Non-Aligned histories. Dreamer and doer in a world where the funding is the curator. Educated by ruangrupa, New Art School Modality, Bureau d'Études, and BLOK. 2024 fellow of TheMuseumsLab and Global Cultural Relations.
Senior Research Fellow on European Security at IRSEM. Visiting Professor at the College of Europe. Associate Researcher at CERI-Sciences Po
https://www.davidcadier.com/
Based in London and Berlin.
Modern Jewish history @ University College London, focus Poland/Eastern Central Europe.
Co-chair Board of Editors of 'Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry', Secretary European Association for Jewish Studies.
Stand with Ukraine!
Assistant Professor in European Politics, Charles Uni| Research Fellow, Academy of Science, CZ| Form.Vis.Fellow, Cambridge Uni, CRASSH|MSCA Fellow, EU Democratic Legitimacy| ARENA🇳🇴
Previously: FCO, 🇬🇧Embassy MKD
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
IR, International (Dis)Order, Eurasian Politics. Lecturer at @uniexeter.bsky.social. Onetime Liberal. Enemy of Pigeonholes. X refugee. Personal views, Repost ≠ 'Like'. Cosmopolitan mutt: roots in 🇦🇲🇬🇷🇩🇪🇱🇧🇧🇪🇬🇧.
Assoc Prof of Russian Lit at U of Toronto. Torontonian, reader, Mum, soprano, Great Lakes swimmer, Digital Humanist, Computational Text analyst. 19th Russian lit scholar. Dostoevskian. Pres of North American Dostoevsky Society. No DMs if I don't know you.
Writes about things: Russian lit, Joycean links, prisons, PTA, weird books, Chornobyl, other passions (and whims). Teaches at Bryn Mawr College. Tends to ducks.
Researcher of propaganda, teacher of Russian literature and language, chocolate lover, tomato grower, and aspiring minimalist 🧳 https://hum.byu.edu/directory/katya-jordan
Literary/cultural history, computational methods, poetry & metres; sometimes video games.
Researcher @ Institute of Czech Literature CAS @ Prague
Curator of the multilingual poetry corpus poeTree.org
Academic, writer, book reviewer of Russian/East European/FSU immigrant literatures
Co-founder, Punctured Lines, a blog about literatures of the former USSR & diaspora, w/ Olga Zilberbourg
Kyiv-based literary scholar. Lecturer at National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy and Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University (2019-2020). Resist, research, and run projects. Fundraise for birds and write short stuff late at night. 🇺🇦 will prevail!
Historian & writer. Editor & co-founder of Women* Write the Balkans. Aspiring corgi haver.
Librarian by day. Even more maladroit in person! Sundry book and textile arts, cross-cultural gastronomica, and ever taller piles of things on every available surface. Aspiring éminence grise, but for hair reasons. she/вона/она/ona/αυτή
writer, German prof, cultural historian of material things that metaphors hide 📚The Icon Curtain; Linguistic Disobedience • 2026: On a Wire above the Abyss: Walking the Tightrope before & after Nazism • next: bio of Curious George • ❤️ in E. Europe • 🐰,🍄,🪡
Literary translator learning, trying, slowly, to translate Ukrainian fiction. Reader. Feeder of Cats
Fiction writer. Like Water & Other Stories (WTAW Press)
Co-moderator, San Francisco Writers Workshop (Tuesdays 7-9 pm at Noisebridge)
Co-founder, Punctured Lines, a blog ab literatures of the former USSR & diaspora, w Yelena Furman
Finishing 1st novel
Translator from Russian to English. Iliazd, _Rapture_. 2019 NEA Translation Fellowship for Iliazd, _PhiloSophia_ (excerpts from Rab-Rab Press). Iliazd's _Speechless Sentence_ and excerpts from _parisites_ and _dUnkee fərEnt_ in _TYPO_ #7.
PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS: THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST SINCE 1990 due from Manchester University Press in 2027. She/her.
Asst. prof., 19c Russophone literature and visual culture, USC Slavic
We are the North American Dostoevsky Society and post about Dostoevsky & related topics! Check out our blog: http://bloggerskaramazov.com. We stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦
Associate Professor of Russian, Willamette University
Art / Design History, Russia, Ukraine, Soviet Union, British-Russian cultural exchange, international Arts & Crafts, c19th British art, #womensart
Master Instructor of Russian at Howard University, PTA policy follower, boricua de pura cepa. Oh, and it is Old Bay, y'all.
Associate Professor, Cultural history of modern Europe @uvahumanities.bsky.social.
Books: "The Making of Mămăligă"; “Un boem la Bucureşti”
https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/d/r/a.j.drace-francis/a.j.drace-francis.html
