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Mark Galeotti
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Analyst of murky topics from Russian politics to organised crime.

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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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Mark Galeotti @markgaleotti.bsky.social · 2d
Well, I like to read things from across the political spectrum, including stuff which doesn't necessarily align with my views, so I hope so...

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Mark Galeotti @markgaleotti.bsky.social · 2d
Do Putin's New Year platitudes suggest he is tiring of ruling Russia?
Perhaps simply tired, but anyway, here's my take on VVP's blander-than-usual address, for the @thespectator1828.bsky.social blog
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Do Putin's New Year platitudes suggest he is tiring of ruling Russia?
Putin's New Year address was of a such blandness that it could have been generated by a large language model
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Mark Galeotti @markgaleotti.bsky.social · 3d
Putin's extraordinary security measures and why an attack on his palace is so unlikely
As we still await (in vain, I suspect) even a shred of evidence for the alleged attack, in @theipaper.com, I write about why it was so implausible
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Putin's extraordinary security measures and why an attack on his palace is so unlikely
Moscow claimed this week that Ukraine launched a drone attack on one of the Russian president's residences
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Chris M @josefka.bsky.social · 5d
Is Putin a murderous master strategist, planning everything Russia does, while pining for the return of the Soviet Union?

It seems much more nuanced, as described in this excellent primer by Mark Galeotti @markgaleotti.bsky.social (2025)
Front cover of ‘we need to talk about Putin’ book by Mark Galeotti

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Mark Galeotti @markgaleotti.bsky.social · 5d
How Putin will threaten the UK in 2026

My take for @theipaper.com. Not the more fashionable, exciting and, for me, implausible suggestions of a direct military threat, but the more indirect challenges, regardless of whatever happens over Ukraine

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How Putin will threaten the UK in 2026
We must brace ourselves for plenty of Britain-bashing by the Kremlin and a growing escalation of its shadow campaign
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Mark Galeotti @markgaleotti.bsky.social · 5d
Monday morning podcast re-up: for the last ep of the year, a look at individuals in the news, from Volodymyr Zelensky to Sergei Udaltsov, Dmitri Kozak to Fanil Sarvarov...

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 6d
"The peace process may be unlikely to succeed, but it has narrowed the real issues in play down to two: Donetsk, and security guarantees for Ukraine provided by western troops after the guns fall silent.” Careful assessment by smart @markgaleotti.bsky.social.
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The most likely thing to end the Ukraine war? Exhaustion

I'm sadly not especially optimistic about the current peace process, but suspect that either way, 2026 may be the last year in which the war is sustained at this tempo. My latest for @thetimes.com

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The most likely thing to end the Ukraine war? Exhaustion
Moscow and Kyiv keep claiming progress on the way to peace, but in the end both sides are struggling to keep up the fight
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Mark Galeotti @markgaleotti.bsky.social · 6d
In Moscow's Shadows 229: Heroes and Villains

To end the year, instead of the grand sweep of geopolitics, a look at a collection of people making the news, sometimes whether they like it or not.

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In Moscow's Shadows 229: Heroes and Villains - In Moscow's Shadows
To end the year, instead of the grand sweep of geopolitics, let's look at a collection of people making the news, sometimes whether they like it or not.And of course, as befits the last episode of the...
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Mark Galeotti @markgaleotti.bsky.social · 6d
The most likely thing to end the Ukraine war? Exhaustion

I'm sadly not especially optimistic about the current peace process, but suspect that either way, 2026 may be the last year in which the war is sustained at this tempo. My latest for @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/world/russia...
The most likely thing to end the Ukraine war? Exhaustion
Moscow and Kyiv keep claiming progress on the way to peace, but in the end both sides are struggling to keep up the fight
www.thetimes.com

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