Mark Galeotti
@markgaleotti.bsky.social
Analyst of murky topics from Russian politics to organised crime.
Mark Galeotti is a British historian, lecturer and writer on transnational crime and Russian security affairs and director of the consultancy Mayak Intelligence. He is an honorary professor at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, and an associate fellow in Euro-Atlantic geopolitics at the Council on Geostrategy, as well as formerly a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. .. more
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Putin looks 'withered' from chaotic strategy depleting forces in Pokrovsk | Mark Galeotti
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As usual, ignore the clickbait title, but also as usual, @hugorifkind.bsky.social manages to cram a lot of sharp qs into this 10-minute Times Radio chat about Putin and the updated version of my WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT PUTIN (published last week)
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30+ открыток с Днем полиции. Красивые картинки для сотрудников МВД России
10 ноября отмечается День сотрудника органов внутренних дел Российской Федерации, в недавнем прошлом - День милиции. Скачайте бесплатно красивые открытки и поздравляйте своих друзей, родных и коллег, ...
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The Russians have a dense calendar of days devoted to various professions, and today is Police Day. So AiF offers a bizarre and bewildering array of virtual cards to send to the cop in your life, from cute kitten/puppy ones to cops as... Terminators?
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Lovely see see that the estimable @dauntbooks.bsky.social has listed HOMO CRIMINALIS as one of their History and Current Affairs Books of the Year, calling it “fiercely readable and ultimately chilling”
In Moscow's Shadows 223: After Putin Who... or What?
It's fruitless to try and come up with names of potential successors - but maybe we can identify archetypes, the kinds of people who might succeed him, depending on the perceived needs of the day.
www.buzzsprout.com/1026985/epis...
It's fruitless to try and come up with names of potential successors - but maybe we can identify archetypes, the kinds of people who might succeed him, depending on the perceived needs of the day.
www.buzzsprout.com/1026985/epis...
In Moscow's Shadows 223: After Putin, Who... or What? - In Moscow's Shadows
We need to talk about post-Putin. It's fruitless at this point to try and come up with names of potential successors -- but maybe we can identify potential archetypes, the kinds of people who might su...
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Monday morning re-up: at this stage it's futile to say who will eventually succeed Putin (you know, after his and Xi's 150 years...), but we can consider the kinds of people who might emerge based on the circumstances of the time
In Moscow's Shadows 223: After Putin, Who... or What? - In Moscow's Shadows
We need to talk about post-Putin. It's fruitless at this point to try and come up with names of potential successors -- but maybe we can identify potential archetypes, the kinds of people who might su...
www.buzzsprout.com
In Moscow's Shadows 223: After Putin Who... or What?
It's fruitless to try and come up with names of potential successors - but maybe we can identify archetypes, the kinds of people who might succeed him, depending on the perceived needs of the day.
www.buzzsprout.com/1026985/epis...
It's fruitless to try and come up with names of potential successors - but maybe we can identify archetypes, the kinds of people who might succeed him, depending on the perceived needs of the day.
www.buzzsprout.com/1026985/epis...
Out today!* The updated edition of WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT PUTIN from Ebury (@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social), taking the story into the darker years since it was written in 2018
* Hardcopy in UK, ebook everywhere, hardcopies elsewhere in due course...
* Hardcopy in UK, ebook everywhere, hardcopies elsewhere in due course...
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