Maryia Rohava
@mrohava.bsky.social
Autocracies and identity politics| Ethnography| Qualitative methods | Nationalism studies | East European Politics | Own views
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Now on FirstView ft. Alixandra Yanus & Phillip Ardoin!
"We analyze referencing patterns from 1990-2024 and uncover a decline in book references and a rise in journal article references. This has implications for students, the discipline, and libraries."
Read more: doi.org/10.1017/S104... #polisky
"We analyze referencing patterns from 1990-2024 and uncover a decline in book references and a rise in journal article references. This has implications for students, the discipline, and libraries."
Read more: doi.org/10.1017/S104... #polisky
October 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Now on FirstView ft. Alixandra Yanus & Phillip Ardoin!
"We analyze referencing patterns from 1990-2024 and uncover a decline in book references and a rise in journal article references. This has implications for students, the discipline, and libraries."
Read more: doi.org/10.1017/S104... #polisky
"We analyze referencing patterns from 1990-2024 and uncover a decline in book references and a rise in journal article references. This has implications for students, the discipline, and libraries."
Read more: doi.org/10.1017/S104... #polisky
Smuggling, circumventing sanctions and trafficking - these strategies have been instrumentalised by the autocratic government, furthering Russia's ambitions of destabilisation. However, the costs of EU border closures shift to ordinary Belarusians, who have to bear the increased costs of EU mobility
Lithuania says it will shoot down smuggling balloons from Russia’s ally Belarus
Lithuania says it will shoot down smuggling balloons from Russia’s ally Belarus
PM blames Alexander Lukashenko for not stopping ‘hybrid attacks’, which closed Vilnius airport four times last week
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Smuggling, circumventing sanctions and trafficking - these strategies have been instrumentalised by the autocratic government, furthering Russia's ambitions of destabilisation. However, the costs of EU border closures shift to ordinary Belarusians, who have to bear the increased costs of EU mobility
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Data from the #AcademicFreedomIndex reveals declining levels of #academicfreedom across authoritarian and democratic contexts. Over the past decade, in fact, global academic freedom levels have shrunk at an accelerating pace. Read why in #Free2Think2025:
www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/fr...
www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/fr...
October 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Data from the #AcademicFreedomIndex reveals declining levels of #academicfreedom across authoritarian and democratic contexts. Over the past decade, in fact, global academic freedom levels have shrunk at an accelerating pace. Read why in #Free2Think2025:
www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/fr...
www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/fr...
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I wrote for Eurozine on the lingering imperial geographies that define our understandings of Ukraine and eastern Europe.
Imperial Russia saw the nation as the sea into which all the other Slavic cultures flowed. The idea persists today in way the region is studied in the West. Ukraine scholar @uilleamblacker.bsky.social pleas for institutional reform: www.eurozine.com/russia-is-no...
Russia is not the sea
Imperial Russia saw the nation as the sea into which all the other Slavic cultures flowed. The idea persists today not only in Russia's attitude towards its neighbourhood, but also in way the region i...
www.eurozine.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I wrote for Eurozine on the lingering imperial geographies that define our understandings of Ukraine and eastern Europe.
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Public Service Announcement: if what's happening in Alaska makes you sick, a donation to Ukraine would improve your health
UNITED24 - The initiative of the President of Ukraine
UNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of...
u24.gov.ua
August 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Public Service Announcement: if what's happening in Alaska makes you sick, a donation to Ukraine would improve your health
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My first publication is now online at @jeas-journal.bsky.social !
@alexdukalskis.bsky.social and I apply quantitative text analysis to Xinhua articles containing the terms "so-called" & "所谓" to explore the ideas the Chinese govt wishes to discredit for different audiences doi.org/10.1017/jea....
@alexdukalskis.bsky.social and I apply quantitative text analysis to Xinhua articles containing the terms "so-called" & "所谓" to explore the ideas the Chinese govt wishes to discredit for different audiences doi.org/10.1017/jea....
August 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
My first publication is now online at @jeas-journal.bsky.social !
@alexdukalskis.bsky.social and I apply quantitative text analysis to Xinhua articles containing the terms "so-called" & "所谓" to explore the ideas the Chinese govt wishes to discredit for different audiences doi.org/10.1017/jea....
@alexdukalskis.bsky.social and I apply quantitative text analysis to Xinhua articles containing the terms "so-called" & "所谓" to explore the ideas the Chinese govt wishes to discredit for different audiences doi.org/10.1017/jea....
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The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference!
📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
📍 ICC Belfast
📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025
🧵
📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
📍 ICC Belfast
📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025
🧵
August 1, 2025 at 7:09 AM
The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference!
📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
📍 ICC Belfast
📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025
🧵
📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
📍 ICC Belfast
📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025
🧵
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Warum Belarus und die belarussische Gesellschaft einen festen Platz in geopolitischen Überlegungen haben sollten - für Die Presse durfte ich einen Gastkommentar schreiben.
www.diepresse.com/19887613/das...
www.diepresse.com/19887613/das...
July 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Warum Belarus und die belarussische Gesellschaft einen festen Platz in geopolitischen Überlegungen haben sollten - für Die Presse durfte ich einen Gastkommentar schreiben.
www.diepresse.com/19887613/das...
www.diepresse.com/19887613/das...
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🇵🇱⚖️🗳️ The rule of law repair process in Poland just got incredibly more difficult. I expect President Nawrocki to be even less cooperative than Duda, as Nawrocki will work hard for a PiS parliamentary election victory. Tough times ahead. 1/
June 2, 2025 at 4:08 AM
🇵🇱⚖️🗳️ The rule of law repair process in Poland just got incredibly more difficult. I expect President Nawrocki to be even less cooperative than Duda, as Nawrocki will work hard for a PiS parliamentary election victory. Tough times ahead. 1/
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Excited to announce the FirstView (and Open Access) publication of my latest article in Nationalities Papers @nationalitiesp.bsky.social:
Russian Propaganda from V to Z: Projecting Banal and Everyday Nationalism in Unsettled Times
A brief intro 🧵(1/6)
doi.org/10.1017/nps....
Russian Propaganda from V to Z: Projecting Banal and Everyday Nationalism in Unsettled Times
A brief intro 🧵(1/6)
doi.org/10.1017/nps....
Russian Propaganda from V to Z: Projecting Banal and Everyday Nationalism in Unsettled Times | Nationalities Papers | Cambridge Core
Russian Propaganda from V to Z: Projecting Banal and Everyday Nationalism in Unsettled Times
doi.org
May 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Excited to announce the FirstView (and Open Access) publication of my latest article in Nationalities Papers @nationalitiesp.bsky.social:
Russian Propaganda from V to Z: Projecting Banal and Everyday Nationalism in Unsettled Times
A brief intro 🧵(1/6)
doi.org/10.1017/nps....
Russian Propaganda from V to Z: Projecting Banal and Everyday Nationalism in Unsettled Times
A brief intro 🧵(1/6)
doi.org/10.1017/nps....
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How the Kremlin’s ‘soft power’ agency supporting expats overseas skirts sanctions
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
How the Kremlin’s ‘soft power’ agency supporting expats overseas skirts sanctions
Woman living in northwest of Ireland handled money linked to Russian network
www.irishtimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 9:08 AM
How the Kremlin’s ‘soft power’ agency supporting expats overseas skirts sanctions
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
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Don't forget to submit your fieldwork photos to the annual @nationalitiesp.bsky.social Photo Contest by May 15!
The photo submissions should be accompanied by a brief description (300-400 words)
Email them to our Managing Editor: np.managingeditor@gmail.com
The photo submissions should be accompanied by a brief description (300-400 words)
Email them to our Managing Editor: np.managingeditor@gmail.com
April 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Don't forget to submit your fieldwork photos to the annual @nationalitiesp.bsky.social Photo Contest by May 15!
The photo submissions should be accompanied by a brief description (300-400 words)
Email them to our Managing Editor: np.managingeditor@gmail.com
The photo submissions should be accompanied by a brief description (300-400 words)
Email them to our Managing Editor: np.managingeditor@gmail.com
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Olga Burlyuk for @platformraam.nl:
On intellectual pain, by 'a scholar of Ukraine from Ukraine'
On intellectual pain, by 'a scholar of Ukraine from Ukraine'
On intellectual pain, by 'a scholar of Ukraine from Ukraine'
In a personal essay, Olga Burlyuk explains how following and participating in debates on Russia's war against Ukraine is painful not only in an...
platformraam.nl
April 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Olga Burlyuk for @platformraam.nl:
On intellectual pain, by 'a scholar of Ukraine from Ukraine'
On intellectual pain, by 'a scholar of Ukraine from Ukraine'
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📢 New Publication Alert!
1/3. We’re excited to annouce the publiction of our latest article: "The Humanitarian Dilemma Reaches Europe’s Doorstep: The Belarus/Poland Border Crisis.", by Roee Kibrik and Piki Ish-Shalom.
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
@sagepub.com
1/3. We’re excited to annouce the publiction of our latest article: "The Humanitarian Dilemma Reaches Europe’s Doorstep: The Belarus/Poland Border Crisis.", by Roee Kibrik and Piki Ish-Shalom.
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
@sagepub.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
📢 New Publication Alert!
1/3. We’re excited to annouce the publiction of our latest article: "The Humanitarian Dilemma Reaches Europe’s Doorstep: The Belarus/Poland Border Crisis.", by Roee Kibrik and Piki Ish-Shalom.
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
@sagepub.com
1/3. We’re excited to annouce the publiction of our latest article: "The Humanitarian Dilemma Reaches Europe’s Doorstep: The Belarus/Poland Border Crisis.", by Roee Kibrik and Piki Ish-Shalom.
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
@sagepub.com
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Two more days left to apply for our 1st DiscussDataLab! Are you working with research data on Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus or Central Asia? Do you need to archive/publish your data, but don't know how to do it properly? Then apply: discuss-data.net#datalab
March 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Two more days left to apply for our 1st DiscussDataLab! Are you working with research data on Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus or Central Asia? Do you need to archive/publish your data, but don't know how to do it properly? Then apply: discuss-data.net#datalab
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Apropos agricultural exports and sanctions, here is a piece that @mikealbertus.bsky.social and I just published on the centrality of land, not as territory but as real estate, homes and cropland for Russian policies, how existing peace plans overlook it and the dangers to both Ukraine and the world.
Russia’s Dangerous Facts on Ukraine’s Ground
Russia’s quiet land policies could determine the fate of peace in Ukraine—and beyond.
foreignpolicy.com
March 26, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Apropos agricultural exports and sanctions, here is a piece that @mikealbertus.bsky.social and I just published on the centrality of land, not as territory but as real estate, homes and cropland for Russian policies, how existing peace plans overlook it and the dangers to both Ukraine and the world.
Belarus hasn’t been on anyone’s agenda recently, but Lukashenka’s regime presents growing security challenges for the EU: from aiding Russia’s war in Ukraine to instigating the border crisis. In this brief, @ditrych.bsky.social highlights how EU should recalibrate its policies towards Belarus ⤵️
March 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Belarus hasn’t been on anyone’s agenda recently, but Lukashenka’s regime presents growing security challenges for the EU: from aiding Russia’s war in Ukraine to instigating the border crisis. In this brief, @ditrych.bsky.social highlights how EU should recalibrate its policies towards Belarus ⤵️
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When authoritarian regimes turn misogyny into a tool of political control: in a new paper w/ @sanstis.bsky.social we investigate key tactics of gender-based digital transnational repression against women human rights defenders in the diaspora. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Gender-based digital transnational repression and the authoritarian targeting of women in the diaspora
Authoritarian governments rely on digital transnational repression to silence criticism and dissent outside their territories. Women human rights defenders and journalists in exile and in the diasp...
www.tandfonline.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
When authoritarian regimes turn misogyny into a tool of political control: in a new paper w/ @sanstis.bsky.social we investigate key tactics of gender-based digital transnational repression against women human rights defenders in the diaspora. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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🙌New & temporarily #FREE article by Katsiaryna Lozka: 'From street protests to everyday life: politicisation of the #Belarusian society after the 2020–2021 National Awakening' 👉 doi.org/10.1080/2159... - @adamfagan.bsky.social @lenkabustikova.bsky.social @andreapirro.it
From street protests to everyday life: politicisation of the Belarusian society after the 2020–2021 National Awakening
This article discusses the politicisation of everyday life in post-2020 Belarus following the suppression of the anti-authoritarian protests. Drawing on visual analysis, it shows that different for...
doi.org
March 19, 2025 at 6:06 AM
🙌New & temporarily #FREE article by Katsiaryna Lozka: 'From street protests to everyday life: politicisation of the #Belarusian society after the 2020–2021 National Awakening' 👉 doi.org/10.1080/2159... - @adamfagan.bsky.social @lenkabustikova.bsky.social @andreapirro.it
An incredibly important contribution to understanding the 2020 mass protests in #Belarus: Eleanor Bindman & Tatsiana Chulitskaya explore the role of civil society organisations & informal community initiatives based on the data from interviews with exiled Belarusians ⤵️
@democratization.bsky.social
@democratization.bsky.social
Explaining the mass protests in Belarus in 2020: What role did civil society play?
This article explores the role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in the mass protests in Belarus following the presidential elections there in August 2020. We argue that CSOs which had existed ...
www.tandfonline.com
March 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
An incredibly important contribution to understanding the 2020 mass protests in #Belarus: Eleanor Bindman & Tatsiana Chulitskaya explore the role of civil society organisations & informal community initiatives based on the data from interviews with exiled Belarusians ⤵️
@democratization.bsky.social
@democratization.bsky.social
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Call for scholars in political behavior (broadly understood) studying Central & Eastern Europe: workshop hosted by
@eui-eu.bsky.social, June 19-20. 2nd edition. Participants from the region can have their travel & accommodation fully covered. Apply by 28/3. More info: www.eui.eu/en/projects/...
@eui-eu.bsky.social, June 19-20. 2nd edition. Participants from the region can have their travel & accommodation fully covered. Apply by 28/3. More info: www.eui.eu/en/projects/...
March 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Call for scholars in political behavior (broadly understood) studying Central & Eastern Europe: workshop hosted by
@eui-eu.bsky.social, June 19-20. 2nd edition. Participants from the region can have their travel & accommodation fully covered. Apply by 28/3. More info: www.eui.eu/en/projects/...
@eui-eu.bsky.social, June 19-20. 2nd edition. Participants from the region can have their travel & accommodation fully covered. Apply by 28/3. More info: www.eui.eu/en/projects/...
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How do civil society actors push back against democratic backsliding? What transnational strategies are emerging?
Join us for a deep dive into civic mobilisation in Serbia & Georgia!
🗓 12 March, 14-16 CET🔗 Register: re-engaging.eu/eventlalal/w...
Join us for a deep dive into civic mobilisation in Serbia & Georgia!
🗓 12 March, 14-16 CET🔗 Register: re-engaging.eu/eventlalal/w...
Webinar: Civic mobilisations in hybrid regimes – A transnational perspective on Serbia and Georgia
In Serbia and Georgia, recent mass mobilisations have unfolded beyond traditional opposition parties and civil society organisations. These self-organised, grassroots movements challenge existing…
re-engaging.eu
February 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
How do civil society actors push back against democratic backsliding? What transnational strategies are emerging?
Join us for a deep dive into civic mobilisation in Serbia & Georgia!
🗓 12 March, 14-16 CET🔗 Register: re-engaging.eu/eventlalal/w...
Join us for a deep dive into civic mobilisation in Serbia & Georgia!
🗓 12 March, 14-16 CET🔗 Register: re-engaging.eu/eventlalal/w...
Excited to share this paper and to reflect more critically on the realities of local scholars and researchers providing access to the field and other services in the field as a way of contributing to global knowledge development of area and country studies.
The paper is available open access ⤵️
The paper is available open access ⤵️
“My Flight Arrives at 5 am, Can You Pick Me Up?”: The Gatekeeping Burden of the African Academic
Over the past decade, there has been increased awareness and discourse around the inequalities which structure North–South academic collaboration. The purpose of this discussion is to look at the o...
www.tandfonline.com
March 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Excited to share this paper and to reflect more critically on the realities of local scholars and researchers providing access to the field and other services in the field as a way of contributing to global knowledge development of area and country studies.
The paper is available open access ⤵️
The paper is available open access ⤵️
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The suspension of U.S. assistance for Ukraine is a very unfortunate and significant development, but it may not have immediate impact. Ukraine is far less dependent on the U.S. for day to day battlefield needs in 2025, than it was in earlier periods of the war. 1/
March 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The suspension of U.S. assistance for Ukraine is a very unfortunate and significant development, but it may not have immediate impact. Ukraine is far less dependent on the U.S. for day to day battlefield needs in 2025, than it was in earlier periods of the war. 1/