Lucy Birge

PhD from @OfficialUoM - Russia watcher

[Lucy Birge @BirgeLucy]

Strange as it seems to be celebrating anything at the present moment, thrilled to say that I passed with my VIVA with minor corrections. A huge thank you to @Ben_OLoughlin and Rachel Platonov for their insightful comments and excellent suggestions!

[Ben O'Loughlin @Ben_OLoughlin]

Congratulations Dr. @BirgeLucy, who today passed her PhD viva, thesis: Sputnik and the "Information War". Really big findings re: the varied, experimental and not wholly organised efforts by Russian media for influence home and abroad. A treat to examine it, w/ Rachel Platonov.

[Riddle Russia по-русски @RidlRussia]

"Россия оказалась в ловушке между «порядком, основанным на правилах», который она двадцать лет последовательно делегитимизировала, и «изменчивой гегемонией» США, которую она не в силах оспорить"
@BirgeLucy
https://t.co/cQyMQfvdWL

[Riddle Russia @RiddleRussia]

"Russia wanted a «multipolar» world order with negotiated spheres of influence. The Trump administration has delivered mercurial US hegemony"
@BirgeLucy
https://t.co/bSi9xNhlK5

[Anton Barbashin @ABarbashin]

"While the US’s mercurial hegemony does not preclude scenarios that offer Russia short-term gains—not understanding the rules of the game, nor being able to pre-empt the ever-shifting priorities of USA, leaves Russia strategically paralyzed"
@BirgeLucy
https://t.co/Ius9XtUIfi

[Kirill S. @kirlant]

The head of the Main Signal Directorate of the RUGS Shamarin is in custody. This is a serious development that undermines the position of CGS Gerasimov. Systemic problems with C3 and signal equipment have crippled the RUAF in the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

[The Moscow Times @MoscowTimes]

#OpEd Lenient sentences for high-profile ultranationalists who criticize Putin show that the Kremlin is worried about the power of these voices, argues @BirgeLucy.
https://t.co/s5kPAHrGz6

[Almut Rochowanski @rochowanski]

The Russian security state has an ominous fixation with punishing young, artsy women who defy conventional notions of proper young womanhood (marriage, office job, children), way out of proportion to the challenge to authorities their activism poses

[Seva @SevaUT]

russia's extremely weird obsession with the british is best understood as a subconscious but powerful identification with another former empire that has not fully internalized its decaying status

[Aric Toler @AricToler]

Averyanov appears in Mali, following rumors that he was driving efforts there for the recently re-energized Redut PMC. He also leads the GRU unit responsible for most Russian activities you've heard about happening in Europe (Novichok in Salisbury, arms depot explosions, etc.)

[Stephen Hutchings @StephenHutchin6]

Very happy to announce that my recent book is now available in full for free Open Access download at: https://t.co/Uz2vLhVhIA

[Madi Kapparov @MuKappa]

The Russians continue with their historic revisionism.
According to a new Russian high school textbook, Russian imperialism was not "classic colonialism" as Russia had no overseas territories. I guess the Russians never heard of the Ottoman Empire or the Roman Empire, where...

[Thomas de Waal @Tom_deWaal]

Hard to believe it is 15 years since the #Georgia-#Russia war of 2008. It feels like yesterday. Some important parallels with the Ukraine war: Russia’s brutal use of force against a neighbour. An important difference too: the Georgian leadership’s reckless and violent actions.

[Jade McGlynn @DrJadeMcGlynn]

«Интенсивная нормализация»
Great to see my research summarised in RE:RUSSIA in complement to the work of the legend that is @jpaulgoode and his @RuMOR_CarletonU findings on Russian TV war content

Thanks to @_abikaras_ for sharing w me
https://t.co/ZvrzauSZ1N

[Ivan U. Kłyszcz @IvanUKlyszcz]

RUSSIA-AFRICA SUMMIT 2023: day one thread

It is 9h30 in St Petersburg and the summit is in full swing. The venue has been open since 8 and already many of the scheduled panels are ongoing. Who has arrived? What are the public discussions about? Let's take a look...

[Maxim Kireev @maximkireev]

Russia 23: Exile newsoutlet meduza offers its readers to change the meduza app logo on their phones for a more neutral one, so it cant be recognised at first glance.

[Anna Arutunyan @scrawnya]

I don’t know what this means yet, and I don’t think anyone truly does. But some thoughts on what’s been happening and what might be happening now. 1. Putin could have arrested Strelkov-Girkin in the summer of 2014… /Thread

[Alexander Gabuev 陳寒士 @AlexGabuev]

"As the war in Ukraine grinds on, the notoriously troubled relationship between Georgia and Russia has, to the surprise of many, entered a new period of increased stability," @emilavdaliani writes for @CEIP_Politika.
https://t.co/SIJBTeFIyU

[Re: Russia @ReRussiaorg_eng]

According to the latest survey by @RusFieldGroup there are three major groups in Russian society with differing attitudes towards the war. We take a look at these various positions within society

https://t.co/pvi0djGE3Z

[Nathan Hodge @nohodge]

The @FT's @NastyaStognei has an excellent write-up of the Kremlin crony takeovers of Danone and Carlsberg. https://t.co/Vs1yr022nF Says @amenka: "This is a signal that anything goes. If you can do it to them you can do it to others."

[Dr Stephen Hall @stephengfhall]

Russia’s Health Minister, Mikhail Murashko, announced today that women shouldn’t go to university, or have a career. They should be educated in school that they should have children first. Having a career leads to infertility, miscarriage & the need for IVF.

[Sergey Radchenko @DrRadchenko]

Yeah something like this. I used to live in China, and enjoyed it greatly. Now I would only go for work. But there is more than just endless mafan. There is something to be said here about convergence. Chinese modernity doesn't look that different from modernity anywhere else.