Mark Hurst

Historian @LancasterHistor

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

"I am ashamed, but I gave up. Please forgive me."

Those were the closing lines of a note left by Nina Litvinova, 80, before she stepped out of a window in Moscow.

🧵Read her story

[Jessica Reinisch @JessicaReinisch]

Good to see the @irsh_iisg review dossier about Daniel Laqua's Activism across Borders come out on FirstView, with @ProfGinaB, @ConnieLorene, @DrMarkHurst, Nicole Robertson & of course Daniel Laqua @ActivismHistory - https://t.co/3qlKbwpZst

[Samantha K Knapton @LgmSam]

Join me to celebrate the launch of Daniel Laqua's new book, "Activism across borders since 1870" alongside @DrMarkHurst @LottieAlston and Nicole Robertson at Newcastle's Lit & Phil on Thu. 28th Sept from 6pm.

Registration is free! 🥳https://t.co/Ryzf20KJq3

#AcademicTwitter

[Dasha @Dasha_Navalnaya]

Two years ago today my dad returned to Moscow to fight for a democratic, free and beautiful Russia. Today we are launching a campaign to free him. Join now! Say no to war! Free Alexey Navalny!

https://t.co/fLz4R8PETU

[Tom Stoppard Quotes @StoppardQuotes]

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[Tony Lin 林東尼 @tony_zy]

When police ask the protesters not to chant “no more lockdowns”, so they chant this instead:

“MORE LOCKDOWNS!”
“I WANT TO DO COVID TESTS!”

Folks. Let me remind you this brave effort also encapsulates the highest Chinese wisdom: weaponized passive aggressiveness.

[Religion, State & Society Journal @RssJournal]

Listen to our brand new podcast episode, 'Religion in Communist Lands'. @ZoeKnox0011001 interviews Philip Walters on religious freedom in the Soviet Union and the limits on those freedoms in #Russia today
https://t.co/FBEsljk4tP

[Vladimir Kara-Murza @vkaramurza]

В Лондоне у торгпредства России официально открыта площадь Бориса Немцова. Восьмой город мира, увековечивший имя лидера российской оппозиции в своей топонимике.
Не сомневаюсь — однажды в этом списке будет Москва.
Спасибо,🇬🇧

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

Here’s more from our interview with St Petersburg university lecturer Denis Skopin, who was sacked after being arrested at an anti-mobilisation protest (and jailed for 10 days). Camera @AntonChicherov Producer @LizaShuvalova

[Sir William Browder KCMG @Billbrowder]

I thought this was a spoof, but this is a real Russian government tweet. In Russia up is down, black is white and 2 + 2= 10

[Mark Hurst @DrMarkHurst]

And particular solidarity to Ales Bialiatski. Being awarded the Nobel prize whilst imprisoned puts him in notable company alongside Carl Von Ossietzky, Aung Sang Suu Kyi and Liu Xiaobo.

[Mark Hurst @DrMarkHurst]

Delighted to publish an article in @CambridgeCRIA considering the echoes of Soviet dissent in contemporary Russia, and where British activists sit in the mix - https://t.co/7L2MlktA1F

[Mark Hurst @DrMarkHurst]

How the three laureates can use this international recognition in their causes will be very interesting to keep an eye on.

[max seddon @maxseddon]

Memorial's Nobel win, after decades of painstaking work documenting historical crimes of the state and modern Russia's worst rights abuses, is in many ways an award for Natalia Estemirova.

She was murdered in Chechnya in 2009 shortly after Ramzan Kadyrov threatened her.

[Memorial in English @EnMemorial]

The Nobel Peace Prize given to Memorial

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Please, do NOT shop for Britain.

Consumerism drives us towards an even greater crisis than the pandemic: the collapse of our life support systems.

[Mark Hurst @DrMarkHurst]

@wbutlerhistory @UkNatArchives Great news Will, many congratulations!

[Mark Hurst @DrMarkHurst]

@wallyberry @hpstubbs A little out of my area, but it's a 5 rouble 'state credit note' (curved text across the top). It's from Ukraine (the city of Nikolaev on the postmark, and there's some Ukrainian on the postcard itself.