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Journalist and translator | Eurasia editor | Ex-editor | fellow | Itinerant baklava enthusiast

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    Oct 1

    Ukraine’s President Zelensky has said he’s “obsessed” with referendums. Were his pre-election promises to bring direct democracy for real? And are they realistic? My latest, for

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    57 minutes ago

    Alumni of together in at the annual media conference . Tomorrow we’ll discuss the main challenges of reporting with other participants of the conference. Stay tuned ;)

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    10 hours ago

    Another example of the lack of in . This is part of Georgian Dream chair Bidzina 's Panorama Tbilisi project on Freedom Square in . The worker has no safety belt, no safety net, there is not even a proper floor for the scafolding.

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    Sep 26
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    Yup. Everyone decided digital writing was different (it's not) and paid far less for it, then when the ad money came in it somehow always trickled up to executives but never down to writers.

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  5. Oct 3

    Some high-octane "Russky Mir" symbolism right here

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  6. Oct 3

    Some excellent food for thought here for fellow attendees of the 2019 conference, as we gather in Chisinau to discuss everything Eastern Europe.

    The Trump-Ukraine scandal has resurrected the old narrative of Ukraine as a place forever "between," doomed by the its location on the map. If you're a journalist, editor, etc., please avoid it (my intro to our volume, paperback out in Dec).
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    Oct 3

    ME: whoa it says here I can have up to 280 characters in my tweet. LEO TOLSTOY: [cracks knuckles] alright, I got this, but all 280 of them are going to be philandering Counts, okay?

    ME: whoa it says here I can have up to 280 characters in my tweet. CHARLES DICKENS: [cracks knuckles] alright, I got this, but all 280 of them are going to be orphans, okay?
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  8. Oct 3

    In honour of That New Book about the USSR’s opulent metro systems, here’s a light fitting, Kharkiv metro (Istoricheskyi Institut station.) 😙👌

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    Oct 3

    Global Voices gets to interview filmmaker Mansky

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    Oct 2

    There are the politicians who say “shoot migrants in the legs” and then there are the politicians who say nice things but allow this to continue.

    For the 6th year in a row, more than 1000 people have died migrating through the Mediterranean
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  11. Oct 2

    Another plug for my latest piece on Zelensky's "obsession" with referendums. In light of recent news, remember that the head of the presidential administration speculated that any peace deal with Russia could be put to a popular vote.

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  12. Oct 2

    Acclaimed director Vitaly Mansky speaks to about his recent film "Putin's Witnesses," a retelling of Putin's rise to power using never seen before archival footage.

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    Oct 1

    wow, uh, this is actually a real passage printed in the new york times.

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    Oct 1

    At least when Orban says it it’s not with a self-satisfied smirk

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    "This daughter of immigrants needs no lectures from the north London, metropolitan, liberal elite." Home Secretary Priti Patel says she will "end the free movement of people once and for all".
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  15. Oct 1

    This looks like quite the Friday night out

    Дорожное селфи 🙂 За этот промежуток времени мы успели принять важные решения. Bus selfie :) We managed to make some important decisions during this short period of time.
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  16. Oct 1

    I can honestly say that I've never had one of my articles translated into Esperanto before. Nor Malagasy or Punjabi. A belated shout out to the team for !

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  17. Oct 1

    issue has been put on ice since Supreme Court annulled a Yanukovich-era law on referendums in 2018 which, seemingly, would have allowed them to be called on legislative issues without parliament’s involvement. With this backstory, the cynicism toward referendums isn’t unwarranted

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  18. Oct 1

    Importantly, the constitution’s provision on referendums does not allow the president to call one on his own initiative, only obliges him to do so after popular demand. A key reason why some constitutional experts are advocating a new law of referendums.

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    Sep 30

    work is moving forward with the country’s process, from truthseeking on human rights & State capture to building a trustworthy justice system. I hope Armenia-covering friends can spread the word:

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    Sep 30

    fascinating little French-language kids' cartoon produced by a company affiliated with Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose mercenaries are running around CAR. The metaphor of the Bear coming from Russia and bringing peace is hard to mistake. courtesy

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