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Central Asia news editor | Cricket | Author of 'Getting Out', about the Ukrainian cricket team 🇺🇦🏏 | Norfolk and Caucasus too. 🌏 jonathancampion.com 🏏 jonathancampion.com/cricket 📷 lifeincentralasia.picfair.com

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · Nov 17

🇺🇦🏏 | My book 'GETTING OUT: The Ukrainian Cricket Team's Last Stand on the Front Lines of War' is the story of some tough and eccentric sportspeople – and how they saved many of those around them from Russia's invasion in 2022.

Details | Where to buy 💙📚
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www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/getting-out

Getting Out: The Ukrainian Cricket Team's Last Stand on the Front Lines of War

Getting Out tells how Ukraine's cricketers escaped from Russia's invasion in February 2022, including first-hand accounts of the war. As the foreign-born players fled the bombings, the team’s Ukrainia...

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 1h

10 Things Ultra Successful People Do Before Waking Up

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Keep me in mind for Astana and Almaty 🇰🇿

🌏 jonathancampion.com/about

ABOUT ME / WORK WITH ME

I am a writer, Russian translator and book editor. Since 2005 I have worked and travelled in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. I’m now based in Norwich, England. For the last 17 …

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James Rodgers @jmacrodgers.bsky.social · 4h

My next book 'The Return of Russia' @yalebooks.bsky.social is currently available for pre-order from Waterstones--with a 25% discount until Friday 17 October
'an exciting account of Russia's descent into authoritarianism'
--Professor Robert Service
www.waterstones.com/book/the-ret...

The Return of Russia by James Rodgers | Waterstones

Buy The Return of Russia by James Rodgers from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 4h

UK readers – from today through Friday, you can get 25% off if you pre-order NIGHTFARING (and other 2026 releases) from @waterstones.bsky.social. 🔑 Use the code OCTOBER25 at checkout on the Waterstones website or app. Pre-orders really help an author out, and I appreciate your support! Out 22 Jan.

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Alex Preston @alexpreston.bsky.social · 2h

So thrilled that @canongate.co.uk will be publishing A Stranger in Corfu in February. A retirement home for spies, secrets that rise up from the past, the beauty of Greece. @waterstones.bsky.social are offering a big preorder discount on the hardback here: buythebook.online/astrangerinc...

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 21h

Did Little Red Riding Hood write this

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Joanna Lillis @joannalillis.bsky.social · 1d

Silk Mirage, my book on #Uzbekistan, will be on the shelves a month today! Join launch events in November in London/online, inc Clifton LitFest w @peterleonard1.bsky.social, Pushkin House with Ibrat Safo, Royal Society for Asian Affairs with Sophie Ibbotson + more open.substack.com/pub/joannali...

Silk Mirage on tour

Silk Mirage, my new book on Uzbekistan, is out on 13 November. Please join me at the following events (in person in the UK and online) taking place during the Silk Mirage tour in November/December.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 4d

'Once Lost from Kyrgyzstan, Little Bustard Population Soars in Northern Valleys' – my latest for @timesca.com:

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Once Lost from Kyrgyzstan, Little Bustard Population Soars in Northern Valleys - The Times Of Central Asia

The Little Bustard, a pheasant-sized bird native to Asia and southern Europe, has reached a nesting population of around 1,900 individuals in Kyrgyzstan this

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 1d

If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk

Home | Matt Owen | Freelance Writer

I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services. Get in touch!

www.mathew-owen.co.uk

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 2d

Unsolicited Azattyk pic.

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Nick Friend @nickfriend.bsky.social · 2d

Linsey Smith out in the middle for England at No.10, which makes her the first left-handed batter to face a ball at a World Cup for England Women since Lydia Greenway in 2013.

By ending 5*, she becomes England's fifth-highest left-handed run-scorer at Women's World Cups, ever.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 5d

My website has a page for my work in #cricket – stories from the global game that never make the headlines:

🏏 Writing for the Wisden Almanack and others;
🏏 A book, Getting Out, about Ukrainian cricket;
🏏 Podcasts, talks & interviews.

See, hire and connect with me here ⬇️
jonathancampion.com/cricket

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My first book Getting Out: The Ukrainian Cricket Team’s Last Stand on the Front Lines of War was published in 2024. Getting Out is the story of how Ukraine’s cricketers helped the peopl…

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The Times of Central Asia @timesca.com · 3d

The latest from our Jonathan Campion the Little Bustard makes a comeback in Kyrgyzstan with nearly 1,900 nesting birds after being nationally extinct 20 years ago https://ow.ly/BpXn50X9QPI #LittleBustard #KyrgyzWildlife #BirdConservation #EndangeredSpecies #WildlifeRecovery

Once Lost from Kyrgyzstan, Little Bustard Population Soars in Northern Valleys - The Times Of Central Asia

The Little Bustard, a pheasant-sized bird native to Asia and southern Europe, has reached a nesting population of around 1,900 individuals in Kyrgyzstan this

ow.ly

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 4d

'Once Lost from Kyrgyzstan, Little Bustard Population Soars in Northern Valleys' – my latest for @timesca.com:

timesca.com/once-lost-fr...

Once Lost from Kyrgyzstan, Little Bustard Population Soars in Northern Valleys - The Times Of Central Asia

The Little Bustard, a pheasant-sized bird native to Asia and southern Europe, has reached a nesting population of around 1,900 individuals in Kyrgyzstan this

timesca.com

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 4d

Very pleasantly surreal having a Ukrainian concert in my little town in West Sussex. Once upon a time I moved to Kyiv to live in the most different culture I could imagine. Anyway, anyone fancy coming to this with me next Saturday?

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My first book Getting Out: The Ukrainian Cricket Team’s Last Stand on the Front Lines of War was published in 2024. Getting Out is the story of how Ukraine’s cricketers helped the peopl…

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 5d

Let's be honest, it's the bowlers landing 40mph googlies on a handkerchief without taking their caps off that have completed cricket.

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Oh god I misread your post and nearly mansplained search-all to you 🤦🏻

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 5d

This is how we win.

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This is how we win.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 6d

In an obscure corner of Kazakhstan, the remains of an ocean millions of years old have created probably the most surreal landscape on earth -- as captured by photographer Daniel Kordan

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Kazakhstan's Mangystau plateau, near the border with Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, at sunset. Layers of ancient salt deposits resemble fjords of white, pink, red and orange icing spilling into a vast gray plane

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The Times of Central Asia @timesca.com · 6d

Fabio Cannavaro takes charge of Uzbekistan’s national team ahead of its historic first FIFA World Cup appearance in 2026 timesca.com/uzbekistan-s... #WorldCup2026 #Football #Soccer #UzbekistanFootball #CannavaroCoach #FIFAWC2026

Uzbekistan Signs Fabio Cannavaro as Coach Ahead of World Cup - The Times Of Central Asia

Fabio Cannavaro has signed a contract with the Uzbekistan Football Association to coach the national team, which qualified for the 2026 FIFA World Cup for the

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Sher Khashimov @skhashimov.bsky.social · 6d

Investigative journalism in Asia continues to do important work despite a challenging press freedom environment. For @gijn.org, I spoke to journalists in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Bangladesh about their experiences, challenges, and the value of cross-border collaboration.

gijn.org/stories/asia...

State-Connected Oligarchs and Looted Public Funds: Tracking Illicit Money Across Asia

In this installment of GIJN's Asia Focus project, we look at how investigative journalists across the continent are exposing kleptocracy and documenting official corruption.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 6d

Not suggesting I could bat against anyone at this #CWC25 🏏, but facing Marufa Akter would absolutely petrify me.

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Jonathan Campion @jonathancampion.com · 7d

More (Ritu) Moni, more problems.

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