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Jeremy Morris
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Write and research on Russia. Work at Aarhus University, but opinions my own, not those of employer.

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Jeremy Nigel Morris is a British historian, Church of England priest and academic. He specialises in church history. From 2014 to 2021, he was Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Previously, he was Dean of Trinity Hall from 2001 to 2010, and Dean of the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge from 2010 to 2014. .. more

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · Mar 23
Reminder that this is now out in hardback and softback as well as ebook formats. Link in the next post.

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The Planetary @theplanetary.bsky.social · 2d
In parallel to Mapping the Planetary, we also have a podcast called 'Planetary Choices' via the Research Center for New Critical Politics and Governance, Aarhus University.

Episode One: The New Order of Planetary Governance - A Conversation with Nils Gilman

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The New Order of Planetary Governance - A Conversation with Nils Gilman - Planetary Choices
In our first episode of Mapping the Planetary, together with our hosts Hagen Schulz-Forberg and James Quilligan, we sit down with Nils Gilman, Vice President of Programs at the Berggruen Institute, an...
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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 13d
I told you about my Danish auntie who started foaming at the mouth parroting the statsminister: 'we're at waaaaarrrrrrrr' after this happened?
Turns out it was all down to her sister Bodil from Tarm who had too much homemade julebryg and saw a plane coming in to land at Legoland.
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The Dutch newspaper Trouw studied 60 reported drone incidents across Europe and found widespread confusion: many sightings weren’t drones at all (some were actually stars, lol), and there's little proof of Russian involvement outside a handful of cases in Poland, Romania, and Moldova.
Analyse zestig drone-incidenten in Europa: veel paniek en weinig bewijs
Dronemeldingen leggen in heel Europa vliegvelden plat en veroorzaken onrust. Trouw analyseerde zo’n zestig incidenten. Daaruit blijkt veel verwarring, geregeld vals alarm en nauwelijks hard bewijs voo...
www.trouw.nl

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 13d
I like to think you are inspired by our very, very bad videos.

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 13d
The Dutch newspaper Trouw studied 60 reported drone incidents across Europe and found widespread confusion: many sightings weren’t drones at all (some were actually stars, lol), and there's little proof of Russian involvement outside a handful of cases in Poland, Romania, and Moldova.
Analyse zestig drone-incidenten in Europa: veel paniek en weinig bewijs
Dronemeldingen leggen in heel Europa vliegvelden plat en veroorzaken onrust. Trouw analyseerde zo’n zestig incidenten. Daaruit blijkt veel verwarring, geregeld vals alarm en nauwelijks hard bewijs voo...
www.trouw.nl

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 13d
Pity to part with this, but not sure I need Jacques Rossi's "The Gulag Handbook". My language is colourful enough as it is.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 13d
Doing a mass book clear-out. Here's some random snippets of books going to the pulper:

Connor 1972 Deviance in Soviet Society.
Margin note is not by me but is funny nevertheless. Also tells you nothing ever changes with gullible and stupid foreigners writing about Russia.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 13d
Russia Unfiltered #8: What have Ozempic production, the rising cost of Yandex taxi-rides and significant wage-arrears in the Russian economy got in common? Find out in our eighth podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bcl...
Russia’s Wartime Cost of Living Crisis | Russia Unfiltered #8
YouTube video by Russia Unfiltered
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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 20d
"If Europe continues down this path, a settlement will eventually be imposed that reflects the interests of Putin and whichever Americans happen to be influential at that moment. Europe will then complain loudly and indignantly, as if it played no part in the outcome."

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 20d
"Bluntly, even in 2022 we only supported Ukrainians because they fought like heroes from Norse myth and got results. We didn’t support them because it was the morally right thing to do." @drjademcglynn.bsky.social smalldeedsbigwar.substack.com/p/circus
Circus
Amidst the absolute chaos of a Witkoff-stamped Russian psyop-as-peace plan, discussion is filled with anger at Washington and at Moscow.
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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 22d
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Three interview commentaries: Schulmann, Zubarevich, Kagarlitsky
Sometimes I like to blog about what’s going on in Russian social media spaces abroad though it doesn’t seem to bring many readers here. That’s a shame because it’s a space that only indirectly gets…
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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 22d
New blogpost - the merits of attending to YouTube russophone political commentary. In short, it's a lot more informative than Twitter or Bsky, that's for sure. Kagarlitsky, Schulmann, and Zubarevich. Five hours of interviews condensed into a single post. Link in the next post:

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 23d
amazing!

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 24d
Now I think of it, the most shocking thing I ever experienced in this line was the editor of a very glossy western magazine in Moscow admitting she'd paid $0000s to a 'witch' to get her husband's lover to die of cancer (and she did!). Who researches this shit?

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 24d
But my favourite is my local astrologer - the wealthiest guy on the block - wealthier even than the Armenian who built a shopping centre:
200 quid for a 10minute zoom on whether the stars will affect your ability to 'win big' this week.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 24d
Professor of social sciences in leading Russian uni: 'Let's have a look at your numerology' (pulls out a slide rule and a log scale) and proceeds to do a load of maths to prove I'm a nice boy at heart.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 24d
More recent interactions with a qualified medical professional in Ru: 'you don't have your Tarot done at least once a year?' How do you know when to travel safely?

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 24d
And because I'm nothing if not into procrastination, I went for a deep dive comparing the wikis of said therapy. The English entry has 'criticisms' (of pseudoscience) for 2/3 of article. The Russian has virtually no mention. So symptomatic on how to cash in other's suffering.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 24d
Peak Russian émigré posting in the other place:

'I don't travel [to Russia] but I can tell you how the country is changing'

then a long prose-poem linking to a paid pseudoscience therapy in Istanbul.

Symptomatic of those who 'woke up' in Feb 22. You had no interest before?

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Jason Corcoran @jasoncorcoran.bsky.social · 27d
Ticking time-bomb 💣
Russian companies are spending 40% of their profits paying just the interest on their debt, according to a Kremlin think tank.
Source: @themoscowtimes.com

www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/11/17/r...
Российские компании отдают почти 40% прибыли на проценты по долгам - Русская служба The Moscow Times
www.moscowtimes.ru

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 27d
So at what time does crypto's slide become a run as everyone realizes they've got to bail before they're the one holding the bag?

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 29d
not a lot that is different from other youth. That's the point. And not at all addressed by this kind of article.

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Tymofiy Mylovanov @mylovanov.bsky.social · 29d
Russia’s oil export revenues fell to $13.4B in September, a decline of $200M compared to the previous month.

Crude revenues increased by $200M, but this gain was fully offset by a $400M drop in oil product revenues, KSE Institute reports. 1/

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 29d
The academic world has done an extremely bad job at making even the most basic things about how academics works publicly
understood.
lecagle.bsky.social Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 29d
There's no reason for most people to know anything about how academic grant making works, so no shade to anyone who doesn't.

And I also wish the whole thing was better understood bc misunderstandings about it lead people to inaccurately think faculty are rolling in dough as a matter of course.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 29d
What's unfortunate about this kind of coverage is that it interprets Russian reality in precisely the way the Kremlin would like its population to. While in reality this story has almost zero purchase on what's going on with Russian youth. (you can tell that from whom is quoted and not quoted).
ndhapple.bsky.social Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · Nov 15
“Putin Is Turning Eighth-Grade Classrooms Into Army Training Grounds: A vast militarization of Russia’s education system is gathering pace in classrooms, where active soldiers train students to handle weapons” apple.news/AonxqjFINQZC...
Putin Is Turning Eighth-Grade Classrooms Into Army Training Grounds — The Wall Street Journal
A vast militarization of Russia’s education system is gathering pace in classrooms, where active soldiers train students to handle weapons
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · Nov 15
“Putin Is Turning Eighth-Grade Classrooms Into Army Training Grounds: A vast militarization of Russia’s education system is gathering pace in classrooms, where active soldiers train students to handle weapons” apple.news/AonxqjFINQZC...
Putin Is Turning Eighth-Grade Classrooms Into Army Training Grounds — The Wall Street Journal
A vast militarization of Russia’s education system is gathering pace in classrooms, where active soldiers train students to handle weapons
apple.news

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · Nov 13
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Beyond the Talk: What Questions Reveal About How We Understand Russia Today
the real problem was that people with doubts or moral objections are made to feel isolated and in the minority, when that’s not the case at all. Making people think no one would share their opinion…
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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · Nov 13
Did a short blog on audience questions when I do a talk.

"access to information in Russia is not the problem, nor is censorship: the real problem is that people with doubts or moral objections are made to feel isolated and in the minority, when that’s not the case at all."

Link in the next post:

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CORUSCANT @coruscant-eu.bsky.social · Nov 12
Save the date! www.zois-berlin.de/en/events/ta... 16 January 2026, Berlin, we're organising our second conference : "Taking Stock: Russia and the Russians Four Years After the Full-Scale Invasion" This time, we teamed with @zois.bsky.social to build this exciting programme with 4 panels.
Taking Stock: Russia and the Russians Four Years After the Full-Scale Invasion
CORUSCANT Conference
www.zois-berlin.de

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · Nov 4
Hi Sven, I think part of the problem is the ever narrowing sense of specialization among experts and researchers.

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · Nov 3
Another excellent blog post from @jeremymorris.bsky.social about the perils of positivism and the grave insult / misunderstanding inherent in dismissing ethnography as "anecdotal." Also, the article features a half naked lady. Something for everyone.

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Ethnography (about Russia) is not anecdotes
one of the main problems of the monocrop ‘Russia expertise field’ is its frequent distance, disdain or condescension towards its subject matter. Externally-imposed theories and even domestically co…
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