Thomas Pedrick 🇺🇦

UKaid & foreign policy | Eastern Europe | Better public services | Better programme delivery | Владею русским языком | All views my own

[Berkhamsted FC @BerkoFC]

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Built for big moments.
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Officially revealing our NEW Berkhamsted Sports Bar 👀

Stay tuned… this is just the beginning. More news coming soon!

#BerkhamstedFC #SportsBar #GlencarStadium #NewEra #NonLeagueFootball

[Alexander Baunov @baunov]

In Russia, it feels as though the very composition of the air has changed — or, seen from the outside, as if a haze has settled in.

We are witnessing three overlapping processes. Attitudes toward Putin are shifting. Economic optimism is fading, along with the everyday patriotism tied to it — the kind that celebrates survival rather than progress. “At least we’re alive.” Finally, there is a growing recognition that the war cannot be won — a war that has itself changed, eroding Russia’s advantages.

A great turning point.

My latest piece for Carnegie Politika (@CEIP_Politika) and Meduza (@meduzaproject) on this important shift in public mood in Russia. For now in Russian — an English version will follow.

https://t.co/tpxDKnILlQ

https://t.co/jv4yyBx0ko

[Berkhamsted FC @BerkoFC]

GAME OVER! PLAYOFFS HERE WE COME!

[Thomas Pedrick 🇺🇦 @thomas_pedrick]

A really thought-provoking article, well worth a read…

[Chris Sampson @sampsonlive]

Feature Article:
The Good Russian Is Not Coming To Save You
And when you tell them that, they will make you pay for it.
https://t.co/j4JSGt3rZX

[Chris Sampson @sampsonlive]

Feature Article:
The Good Russian Is Not Coming To Save You
And when you tell them that, they will make you pay for it.
https://t.co/j4JSGt3rZX

[Thomas Pedrick 🇺🇦 @thomas_pedrick]

@jdpoc I think Devon would want to be in the English bit…

[The Insider @InsiderEng]

Lost in translation: How Russia’s new elite hit squad was compromised by an idiotic lapse in tradecraft

@christogrozev, @Dobrokhotov and @michaeldweiss detail how hubris and Google Translate exposed Russia's most secretive assassination unit, Center 795.

https://t.co/xqFzy2Y1S4

[Thomas Pedrick 🇺🇦 @thomas_pedrick]

@caulffeine I’ve heard it hundreds of times!

[Thomas Pedrick 🇺🇦 @thomas_pedrick]

@icelandcricket Is it true that Icelanders referred to the period as the “Lovely War”?!

[Thomas Pedrick 🇺🇦 @thomas_pedrick]

@KettlebellYard @amazingmap Yes, the map doesn’t show successful invasions, but any invasions. So the last one in the UK would probably be 1797.

[Dave Dalton @DaveDalton42]

1/2. Orban's Hungary dropped from about 46-47th to 84th position in Transparency International's corruption perceptions index over the long years of his rule since 2010, fiddling the political and media systems in his favour. Lowest position in Europe.

[Mikheil Saakashvili @SaakashviliM]

Very important tone of the Statements made by Armenia's Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, in Tbilisi.

He underlined the importance of Georgia and Armenia's common movement towards the EU, and he stressed the need for "independent foreign policy." NONE of this corresponds to Georgia's current direction.

Pashinyan looked like a real leader, and his counterpart like a total nobody (as he is).

[Shaun Walker @shaunwalker7]

I've been working on this for ages in various countries: the story of the intelligence buildup to Putin's 2022 invasion. How did the US and Britain find out so much, and why were Europe and Ukraine sceptical.

It's a long one:

https://t.co/VFqxQUPsKG

[British Ambassador to Ukraine 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @UKAmbUkraine]

Important demonstration of UK support with the Defence Secretary announcing half a billion pounds of support to 🇺🇦 air defences. All the more important after last night’s Russian air strikes which left another 3000 households without heating and killed at least two people 🇺🇦🇬🇧

[Thomas Pedrick 🇺🇦 @thomas_pedrick]

@AKurkov is there anywhere in Kyiv which sells your books in Russian?

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

People fatally shot by UK police in 2024/25: 2
People fatally shot by US law enforcement in 2025: 1280

[Thomas Pedrick 🇺🇦 @thomas_pedrick]

@NoContextBrits Why, let the stricken deer go weep
And hart ungalled play
For some must watch while some must sleep
So runs the world away.

[Thomas Pedrick 🇺🇦 @thomas_pedrick]

@AntonyFiery @jason_pontin @TheLincoln No! I loved Stoner, just loved it, so much more relatable than Updike or Bellow…

[Thomas Pedrick 🇺🇦 @thomas_pedrick]

@GkbWeber @BenWallace70 Always?! Such as before the Russians invaded in the 18th century?!

[Thomas Pedrick 🇺🇦 @thomas_pedrick]

@OedipasKvass @damiankelleher Also, because you can soon go to watch the film ‘One Battle After Another’ with Vineland fresh in your mind…