Ilya Lozovsky
@ichbinilya.bsky.social
Writer and senior editor at OCCRP. Investigative journalism, democracy, corruption, US politics, Europe and Eurasia. More fun than this profile IRL. Currently in Amsterdam!
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
PS - I am not a crackpot
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
PS - I am not a crackpot
View of Delft alone is worth the visit
November 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
View of Delft alone is worth the visit
Always Be A/B Testing
October 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Always Be A/B Testing
Explain it to me like I’m thick: how is sanctioning two of Russia’s largest oil companies and threatening secondary sanctions on those who deal with them “not about Russia”?
October 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Explain it to me like I’m thick: how is sanctioning two of Russia’s largest oil companies and threatening secondary sanctions on those who deal with them “not about Russia”?
What does that mean?
October 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
What does that mean?
I think people should be better educated on the civilizational machinery that makes their lifestyles possible, so I applaud this story as a great public service.
October 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I think people should be better educated on the civilizational machinery that makes their lifestyles possible, so I applaud this story as a great public service.
you’re literally posting a fake photoshopped image in your post about not lying!!
October 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
you’re literally posting a fake photoshopped image in your post about not lying!!
As I said, you don't have to agree with her approach. But I don't think you can honestly read her as "blaming the Baltics and Poland for the war."
October 7, 2025 at 8:42 AM
As I said, you don't have to agree with her approach. But I don't think you can honestly read her as "blaming the Baltics and Poland for the war."
And here's the original interview www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjSH...
Angela Merkel: a magyar nép feladata eldönteni, újraválasztja-e Orbán Viktort
YouTube video by Partizán
www.youtube.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
And here's the original interview www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjSH...
But this little episode is a great illustration of how easy it is for a bunch of well-informed, well-meaning people to find themselves misled, and to mislead others, on social media.
October 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
But this little episode is a great illustration of how easy it is for a bunch of well-informed, well-meaning people to find themselves misled, and to mislead others, on social media.
I'm not here to carry water for Merkel — there's plenty of room for criticism, of how she handled Putin, not the least from Polish and Baltic leaders.
October 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I'm not here to carry water for Merkel — there's plenty of room for criticism, of how she handled Putin, not the least from Polish and Baltic leaders.
As far as I can tell, it was all triggered by this Daily Mail story, the top of which reads like this.
Honestly, is this a sound reading of what she said?
Honestly, is this a sound reading of what she said?
October 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
As far as I can tell, it was all triggered by this Daily Mail story, the top of which reads like this.
Honestly, is this a sound reading of what she said?
Honestly, is this a sound reading of what she said?
This is what's got pro-Ukrainian X and BlueSky in an uproar today, to the point that officials (reacting to this uproar, I think) have now issued furious denunciations. www.politico.eu/article/ange...
Merkel blasted by Baltics, Poland for suggesting they share blame for Russia’s Ukraine invasion
“I am astonished that after everything that has happened in Ukraine, she still thinks this way,” a former leader says of ex-German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
www.politico.eu
October 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This is what's got pro-Ukrainian X and BlueSky in an uproar today, to the point that officials (reacting to this uproar, I think) have now issued furious denunciations. www.politico.eu/article/ange...