Jeremy Morris
@jeremymorris.bsky.social
Write and research on Russia. Work at Aarhus University, but opinions my own, not those of employer.
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@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.
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:
November 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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:
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?
'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?
November 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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?
'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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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?
November 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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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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...
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
November 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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...
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...
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Strikes on refineries have been the only tariffs Russia hasn't been able to wriggle out of (at least some extent).
The West's leadership has shown itself to be overall weak, compromised and effete - a message not only Russia & co has noted, but also voters.
#econsky
The West's leadership has shown itself to be overall weak, compromised and effete - a message not only Russia & co has noted, but also voters.
#econsky
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/
Crude revenues increased by $200M, but this gain was fully offset by a $400M drop in oil product revenues, KSE Institute reports. 1/
November 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Strikes on refineries have been the only tariffs Russia hasn't been able to wriggle out of (at least some extent).
The West's leadership has shown itself to be overall weak, compromised and effete - a message not only Russia & co has noted, but also voters.
#econsky
The West's leadership has shown itself to be overall weak, compromised and effete - a message not only Russia & co has noted, but also voters.
#econsky
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The academic world has done an extremely bad job at making even the most basic things about how academics works publicly
understood.
understood.
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.
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.
November 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The academic world has done an extremely bad job at making even the most basic things about how academics works publicly
understood.
understood.
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).
“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
November 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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).
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:
"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:
November 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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:
"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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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
November 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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.
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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.
postsocialism.org/2025/11/01/e...
postsocialism.org/2025/11/01/e...
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…
postsocialism.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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.
postsocialism.org/2025/11/01/e...
postsocialism.org/2025/11/01/e...
"When I present my work, it often meets incredulity or hostility, even among fellow social scientists. I can’t tell you how many times my work has been downgraded to ‘that’s just an anecdote’". Link to a rant in the next post.
November 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
"When I present my work, it often meets incredulity or hostility, even among fellow social scientists. I can’t tell you how many times my work has been downgraded to ‘that’s just an anecdote’". Link to a rant in the next post.
As the grim darkness descends on Europe (minus Russia) with its insistence on an observing an archaic October clock-ritual, why not brighten your evening with these three blokes talking about which Ru-adjacent journalists and pundits they despise the most. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvGP...
Why Russia Experts Get Russia Wrong | Russia Unfiltered #4
YouTube video by Russia Unfiltered
www.youtube.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
As the grim darkness descends on Europe (minus Russia) with its insistence on an observing an archaic October clock-ritual, why not brighten your evening with these three blokes talking about which Ru-adjacent journalists and pundits they despise the most. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvGP...
90% of publications now fit this description tbf
October 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
90% of publications now fit this description tbf
Reupping: "Russia has moved towards a much more rigid ideological structure and has an official ideology, but at least to this reader, the book, with its repetition of the terms 'repertoires' and 'plasticity', seems to argue for something different"
October 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Reupping: "Russia has moved towards a much more rigid ideological structure and has an official ideology, but at least to this reader, the book, with its repetition of the terms 'repertoires' and 'plasticity', seems to argue for something different"
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.
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terrifying myself by imagining that, somewhere out there, someone with more security clearance than brain cells is planning covert operations using chat gpt
September 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
terrifying myself by imagining that, somewhere out there, someone with more security clearance than brain cells is planning covert operations using chat gpt
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
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In our new issue, @jeremymorris.bsky.social explains how the Kremlin manufactures and enforces consent for a war that benefits few Russians.
Maintaining the IllusionRussian Society After Three Years of War
Well into the fourth year of war since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian society remains largely compliant, even though few have benefited from the conflict. The working poor who make u...
online.ucpress.edu
October 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
In our new issue, @jeremymorris.bsky.social explains how the Kremlin manufactures and enforces consent for a war that benefits few Russians.
The loneliness of the long-distance war supporter in Russia. New Blogpost postsocialism.org/2025/10/03/t...
The loneliness of the long-distance war supporter in Russia
Irritation and isolation is the flipside of the ‘comfort’ culture. And perhaps what partly feeds demand for it. Most of all, though, war supporters feel lonely.
postsocialism.org
October 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The loneliness of the long-distance war supporter in Russia. New Blogpost postsocialism.org/2025/10/03/t...
Ukrainian nationalists - aren't you going to run out of 'bad' Soviet Ukrainians soon? photo-lviv.in.ua/u-lvovi-demo...
"activist Oleg Radik... scrupulously researched the biography and work of the director, claiming that her activities were fully integrated into the Soviet cultural context"
"activist Oleg Radik... scrupulously researched the biography and work of the director, claiming that her activities were fully integrated into the Soviet cultural context"
У Львові демонтували меморіальну дошку радянській кінорежисерці Ларисі Шепітько • Фотографії старого Львова
У Львові, на вулиці Ковжуна, 8, демонтували меморіальну таблицю, присвячену радянській кінорежисерці Ларисі Шепітько. Ця подія стала результатом піврічної
photo-lviv.in.ua
October 2, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Ukrainian nationalists - aren't you going to run out of 'bad' Soviet Ukrainians soon? photo-lviv.in.ua/u-lvovi-demo...
"activist Oleg Radik... scrupulously researched the biography and work of the director, claiming that her activities were fully integrated into the Soviet cultural context"
"activist Oleg Radik... scrupulously researched the biography and work of the director, claiming that her activities were fully integrated into the Soviet cultural context"
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]"
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Our annual Russia and Eurasia issue is out! Featuring @jeremymorris.bsky.social on Russia’s compliant war society, Olena Strelnyk on Ukraine’s wartime gender equality turn, @nelbek.bsky.social on Belarus’s post-2020 transformations, Florian Mühlfried on mistrust and protest in Georgia…
Volume 124 Issue 864 | Current History | University of California Press
online.ucpress.edu
September 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Our annual Russia and Eurasia issue is out! Featuring @jeremymorris.bsky.social on Russia’s compliant war society, Olena Strelnyk on Ukraine’s wartime gender equality turn, @nelbek.bsky.social on Belarus’s post-2020 transformations, Florian Mühlfried on mistrust and protest in Georgia…
Re-Reading Conrad and always struck by his eternally contemporary relevance: the British are 'a people which has made a bargain with fate and wouldn't like to be rude to it.'
September 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Re-Reading Conrad and always struck by his eternally contemporary relevance: the British are 'a people which has made a bargain with fate and wouldn't like to be rude to it.'