Lana Arseienko

@LSEPublicPolicy recent grad student. @CambridgeMBA alumnus. Former Ukrainian journalist. Strategy and operations wizard (aka jack of all trades).

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Why some smart people spread russian propaganda?

Recently, I had a conversation with a person from “academic circles” who claimed that people like Jeffrey Sachs, John Mearsheimer, Noam Chomsky cannot be russian propagandists because they are smart and well educated.

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[Lana Arseienko @arseenko]

How difficult can it be for San Francisco school district and for Recology to coordinate their timings especially in the narrow streets

[Lana Arseienko @arseenko]

Is there something clever in the Kamala’s groceries price control policy suggestion? This is terrible. I don’t want bread lines in the US. Price control -> lower production -> scarcity. What am I missing?

[Lana Arseienko @arseenko]

It’s Kámala, not Kamála ❤️

[Lana Arseienko @arseenko]

There is about to be famine in Sudan, while Novo Nordisk is a new hot company for anti-obesity. Absurd.

[Lana Arseienko @arseenko]

(3) Was it a clever agreement? Swords into ploughshares, and spears into pruning hooks? Or was it negotiating with an enemy, a terrorist? There were 250 shipments of Russian uranium, the last of which arrived in 2013.

[Lana Arseienko @arseenko]

(1) 15,500 tonnes of low-enriched uranium. That is enough to fuel the entire US for a couple of years. That’s how much Thomas Neff (1943-2024) negotiated with the Russians more than thirty years ago.

[Lana Arseienko @arseenko]

(2) The uranium came from dismantling Russian warheads, more than twenty thousand of them, around a third of the peak global number, and up to 40% of the Soviet warhead material. In exchange, the broke and struggling post-USSR Russians were getting credits for food and essentials

[Lana Arseienko @arseenko]

Is AI vetting of news a thing? Can I have my three independent sources checked by AI?

[Athan Koutsiouroumbas @Athan_K]

A lot happened in July.

But, one event went quietly unnoticed.

The result of largest American controlled experiment in Universal Basic Income (UBI) was released.

You haven’t heard about it because the findings are terrifyingly bad. (1/12)

[Lana Arseienko @arseenko]

A recruiter was very blunt with me today: “Hey, why are you apologizing for too many years of education? No man would do that - those degrees would be a shining star for them”

Why do we women so often undermine our achievements?

[Lana Arseienko @arseenko]

This is me and my friends in a bomb shelter in Kyiv at around 1 am two weeks ago. This was the day after I graduated from the #LSE’s School of Public Policy, and took an exhausting journey to a war-zone from London, through Warsaw and Western Ukraine. This is not normal.

[Lana Arseienko @arseenko]

I joined Twitter in 2009 and used it profusely as a journalist. We fell out of love for many years. Now, it has a new name, and I guess I need to get back to my X.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

A video captures the moment a Russian missile targeted a children’s hospital in Kyiv during Monday morning rush hour.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

To recall the end of the Second World War in Europe means remembering that more Ukrainian civilians were killed than were Russians, and that more Ukrainian soldiers died fighting the Wehrmacht than Americans, British, and Frenchmen — taken together.
See numbers in #Bloodlands

[Lana Arseienko @arseenko]

@SPlokhy Preordered! Very excited to read it

[Lana Arseienko @arseenko]

ChatGPT is handing out sermons "It lacks the soul", lol, better luck with the next update. https://t.co/XjsjYpjodL

[Iza Ding @izading]

If you can read only one thing to make sense of the protests in #China, read “Now Out of Never” by Timur Kuran. It’s one of those studies that cannot be summarized in a thread, so I won’t attempt it. Just go read it in its entirety, it’s worth it. I have a few reflections 1/7🧵

[Secretary Antony Blinken @SecBlinken]

I just spoke with @DmytroKuleba to reiterate U.S. support for Ukraine following the Kremlin’s horrific strikes this morning. We will continue to provide unwavering economic, humanitarian, and security assistance so Ukraine can defend itself and take care of its people.