Jeremy Morris
@jeremymorris.bsky.social
Write and research on Russia. Work at Aarhus University, but opinions my own, not those of employer.
New post - a mammoth, though partial, review of Marlene Laruelle's new book on Putinism as ideology. I find a lot to like in her 400 page meticulous treatment, but also a bit of a gap between her final thesis and her evidence. Link in the next post.
October 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
New post - a mammoth, though partial, review of Marlene Laruelle's new book on Putinism as ideology. I find a lot to like in her 400 page meticulous treatment, but also a bit of a gap between her final thesis and her evidence. Link in the next post.
So we decided to do a YouTube. Three guys talking about Russia.
Clickbait:
James: 'We won't call them [Americans going to Russia to live] white nationalists or anything'
Jonny: 'I think you just have'
Join us for what will hopefully be a recurring chat.
Link in the next post
Clickbait:
James: 'We won't call them [Americans going to Russia to live] white nationalists or anything'
Jonny: 'I think you just have'
Join us for what will hopefully be a recurring chat.
Link in the next post
October 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
So we decided to do a YouTube. Three guys talking about Russia.
Clickbait:
James: 'We won't call them [Americans going to Russia to live] white nationalists or anything'
Jonny: 'I think you just have'
Join us for what will hopefully be a recurring chat.
Link in the next post
Clickbait:
James: 'We won't call them [Americans going to Russia to live] white nationalists or anything'
Jonny: 'I think you just have'
Join us for what will hopefully be a recurring chat.
Link in the next post
Current Reading: Maria Gunko, "Nothing there. A small Armenian town between
disappearance and endurance"
disappearance and endurance"
September 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Current Reading: Maria Gunko, "Nothing there. A small Armenian town between
disappearance and endurance"
disappearance and endurance"
Current reading: Crypto in Russia:
"Well, not to say anything out loud, let’s call it some kind of intensification of relations between different states.
They can make it so that at some point I will be left without the main source of income. Then I will have to do
it [invest in cryptocurrency]"
"Well, not to say anything out loud, let’s call it some kind of intensification of relations between different states.
They can make it so that at some point I will be left without the main source of income. Then I will have to do
it [invest in cryptocurrency]"
September 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Current reading: Crypto in Russia:
"Well, not to say anything out loud, let’s call it some kind of intensification of relations between different states.
They can make it so that at some point I will be left without the main source of income. Then I will have to do
it [invest in cryptocurrency]"
"Well, not to say anything out loud, let’s call it some kind of intensification of relations between different states.
They can make it so that at some point I will be left without the main source of income. Then I will have to do
it [invest in cryptocurrency]"
We did an author meet and book exchange yesterday in salubrious surroundings. Bonus was the cosplay Peaky Blinders bloke. From some angles he looked like Lenin.
September 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
We did an author meet and book exchange yesterday in salubrious surroundings. Bonus was the cosplay Peaky Blinders bloke. From some angles he looked like Lenin.
Well overdue article: "The elephant in the lecture hall: Russian intelligence and Western academia" by Sanshiro Hosaka
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Well overdue article: "The elephant in the lecture hall: Russian intelligence and Western academia" by Sanshiro Hosaka
The dangers of pundits and self-congratulatory analysis.(Yes, this is an Ian Bremmer subtweet).
In reality, imports of Russian fuels to EU are only 1% less in volume from 2023, and in 2024 surpassed the Eur19bn of aid sent to Ukraine. Total earnings from fuels since 2022 is close 1 trillion Euros.
In reality, imports of Russian fuels to EU are only 1% less in volume from 2023, and in 2024 surpassed the Eur19bn of aid sent to Ukraine. Total earnings from fuels since 2022 is close 1 trillion Euros.
September 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The dangers of pundits and self-congratulatory analysis.(Yes, this is an Ian Bremmer subtweet).
In reality, imports of Russian fuels to EU are only 1% less in volume from 2023, and in 2024 surpassed the Eur19bn of aid sent to Ukraine. Total earnings from fuels since 2022 is close 1 trillion Euros.
In reality, imports of Russian fuels to EU are only 1% less in volume from 2023, and in 2024 surpassed the Eur19bn of aid sent to Ukraine. Total earnings from fuels since 2022 is close 1 trillion Euros.
The responses to this on the 'other site', whether critical or responsive are pretty poor. Is mass, public housing near to jobs and transit better than a world of intentional scarcity and financialized private housing? Yes, even if it's a bit shitty. Funny that these aren't even bad examples here.
September 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The responses to this on the 'other site', whether critical or responsive are pretty poor. Is mass, public housing near to jobs and transit better than a world of intentional scarcity and financialized private housing? Yes, even if it's a bit shitty. Funny that these aren't even bad examples here.
Colleagues often criticise my argument that the most salient discourse in Russia is Social Darwinism. But even people from exile do it 'automatically'. Like this for the Telegraph. Link in next post. [and I'm presenting on this Saturday for anyone in Sofia BG]
September 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Colleagues often criticise my argument that the most salient discourse in Russia is Social Darwinism. But even people from exile do it 'automatically'. Like this for the Telegraph. Link in next post. [and I'm presenting on this Saturday for anyone in Sofia BG]
A great sociological genre. Russian upper-middle class woman goes to live in Argentina without knowing anything about it. Kholod does an almost sublimely unreflexive piece.
'imports are not established there'.
'imports are not established there'.
September 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
A great sociological genre. Russian upper-middle class woman goes to live in Argentina without knowing anything about it. Kholod does an almost sublimely unreflexive piece.
'imports are not established there'.
'imports are not established there'.
Reading a revisionist account of Ukrainianization in Soviet Ukraine, against the standard narratives of Russification in 70s-80s. This was published in 2002. I'm thinking about the reception this approach would get today on indigenisation. (link in next post).
September 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Reading a revisionist account of Ukrainianization in Soviet Ukraine, against the standard narratives of Russification in 70s-80s. This was published in 2002. I'm thinking about the reception this approach would get today on indigenisation. (link in next post).
'Do economic transformations serve the interests of the majority?'. Red line: no. Blue: yes. The war in Ukraine is just as much about the 'unfinished (post)socialist period. As I argue in my book (natch).
September 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
'Do economic transformations serve the interests of the majority?'. Red line: no. Blue: yes. The war in Ukraine is just as much about the 'unfinished (post)socialist period. As I argue in my book (natch).
Russian Academy of Sciences sociology centre just published polling which shows highest concern about cost of living since.....
1993.
Bonus (because I don't have a better graphic): statistically significant rise over time in people saying end of USSR a 'self own' (47%)
1993.
Bonus (because I don't have a better graphic): statistically significant rise over time in people saying end of USSR a 'self own' (47%)
September 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Russian Academy of Sciences sociology centre just published polling which shows highest concern about cost of living since.....
1993.
Bonus (because I don't have a better graphic): statistically significant rise over time in people saying end of USSR a 'self own' (47%)
1993.
Bonus (because I don't have a better graphic): statistically significant rise over time in people saying end of USSR a 'self own' (47%)
Prigozhin's mother interviewed in Fontanka today:
I told him: “Zhenya, you will only be supported on the Internet. No one will go with you. People are not like that now. No one will go out to the square.”
I told him: “Zhenya, you will only be supported on the Internet. No one will go with you. People are not like that now. No one will go out to the square.”
August 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Prigozhin's mother interviewed in Fontanka today:
I told him: “Zhenya, you will only be supported on the Internet. No one will go with you. People are not like that now. No one will go out to the square.”
I told him: “Zhenya, you will only be supported on the Internet. No one will go with you. People are not like that now. No one will go out to the square.”
Investigating information collapse of self-trained AI models and the recognized lack of quantitative accuracy of modern LLMs.
August 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Investigating information collapse of self-trained AI models and the recognized lack of quantitative accuracy of modern LLMs.
August 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Early onset broadsheet dementia
June 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Early onset broadsheet dementia
V. Siiutkin: How Do Ordinary Citizens Experience Polarization Under an Authoritarian Regime? A Qualitative Study of Affects and Preferences in Postinvasion Russian Society, in www.soclabo.org/index.php/la...
June 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
V. Siiutkin: How Do Ordinary Citizens Experience Polarization Under an Authoritarian Regime? A Qualitative Study of Affects and Preferences in Postinvasion Russian Society, in www.soclabo.org/index.php/la...
For Russian speakers, this exchange between people 'outside' and those remaining 'inside' kinda encapsulates *everything* about talking down/moral line-drawing since 2022.
June 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
For Russian speakers, this exchange between people 'outside' and those remaining 'inside' kinda encapsulates *everything* about talking down/moral line-drawing since 2022.
Is Putin the only living person to have his own book section in Blackwells? Guess how many titles name him in the 'Russia under Putin' bookshelf in the pic? In total, there are four sections in this large bookshop with Putin books. Kind of mindblowing when you think about it.
June 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Is Putin the only living person to have his own book section in Blackwells? Guess how many titles name him in the 'Russia under Putin' bookshelf in the pic? In total, there are four sections in this large bookshop with Putin books. Kind of mindblowing when you think about it.
Korolev from 1960s waves (product of Kiev aviation education!). Would be great if a Ukraine FOBS rendered all ICBMs obsolete, though I have no faith that nuke disarmament would be the result.
June 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Korolev from 1960s waves (product of Kiev aviation education!). Would be great if a Ukraine FOBS rendered all ICBMs obsolete, though I have no faith that nuke disarmament would be the result.
I went outside. In the old country. Then I bought some salo (not in shot) to go with my mild amigo.
May 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I went outside. In the old country. Then I bought some salo (not in shot) to go with my mild amigo.
I hadn't realized this piece summarizing my book had already come out with Russia.Post
The Power of Everyday Politics in Russia: ‘Feeling for an Absent Presence’
link in the next post
The Power of Everyday Politics in Russia: ‘Feeling for an Absent Presence’
link in the next post
May 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I hadn't realized this piece summarizing my book had already come out with Russia.Post
The Power of Everyday Politics in Russia: ‘Feeling for an Absent Presence’
link in the next post
The Power of Everyday Politics in Russia: ‘Feeling for an Absent Presence’
link in the next post