@dessiezagorcheva.bsky.social
Political Scientist, Ph.D. (Columbia U); intl security, Russia, Eastern Europe, authoritarianism, global far-right networks
From Putin with love
"A Russian missile slammed into an American electronics factory in a remote corner of far western Ukraine early Thursday, causing extensive damage and more than a dozen injuries, according to Ukrainian officials."
August 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
December 30, 2024 at 9:28 PM
You mean corruption in Team Trump... I'm shocked, shocked...
November 26, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Putin's aide saying the quiet part out loud
Patrushev: "To achieve success in the election, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations. As a responsible person, he will obliged to fulfill them."
November 12, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Creeping Putinization of Bulgaria. My latest article:
cepa.org/article/the-...
October 5, 2024 at 8:30 PM
January 13, 2024 at 2:10 AM
My latest piece looking into the efforts of the new Bulgarian government to fight corruption and Russian influence in the country
cepa.org/article/krem...
January 7, 2024 at 1:33 AM
On this day, two years ago
November 12, 2023 at 6:28 PM
My piece on Putin's spies masquerading as clergy
cepa.org/article/pray...
October 31, 2023 at 10:46 PM
Putin's new social distancing table
Meeting w/ Russian religious leaders in the Kremlin on Wed.
October 26, 2023 at 11:55 PM
Some good news out of Poland:
Big turn out in Polish elections, PiS lost its majority
October 15, 2023 at 11:32 PM
March 14, 2023
October 8, 2023 at 5:34 AM
Armenia has accepted the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court after lawmakers on Tuesday ratified its founding documents, effectively obliging the former Soviet republic to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin if he ever returns to the country.
October 5, 2023 at 3:11 AM
Exit poll shows Progressive Slovakia in the lead
Michal Šimečka’s Progressive Slovakia: 23.5%
Robert Fico’s Smer: 21.9%

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
September 30, 2023 at 8:58 PM
311 vs 117 Despite all the talk that support for Ukraine is waning in Congress and within American society. At the same time, more than half of the GOP House caucus is giving putin some hope.
September 29, 2023 at 10:15 PM