Lazar Levchenko

The Greater Second World War by edited by Andrew N. Buchanan and Ruth Lawlor | Hardcover | Cornell University Press The Greater Second World War challenges the traditional temporal and geographic frameworks of World War II, expanding the timeline to include a series of regional conflicts and revolutions that began....

The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives (Cornell University Press, April 2025)
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

A unique dataset by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) on Self-Assessed Household Financial Situation in Ukraine (1994-2024) was published in open access. It provides a longitudinal overview, how personal financial well-being changed over three decades: discuss-data.net/dataset/b78f...

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Didn't Belarus suspend its Eastern Partnership participation in 2021?

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Couldn’t 26 EU countries simply announce an end of the 2009 #LisbonTreaty, and concurrently sign an identical agreement, but without Hungary (...as well as perhaps offer the UK to renew its 2007 signature)?

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This figure shows just how far 2023 and 2024 were above any prior year in the @BerkeleyEarth dataset. Note that the width of the bar represents the uncertainty in the estimate due to the spatial coverage of observations and other factors:

An ice skating rink sponsored by an orthopedic group

Vertical integration

Real footage of a synthetic control model

He's a former PM, isn't he? Wikipedia says he defected in 2012: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyad_F...

They would write it on their website if they were interested in transparent and honest journalism

So is the Russian economy enjoying a growth boom?
No, it's not. My @bofitresearch.bsky.social collague Heli Simola wrote an excellent short blog to explain this. A short thread below:
www.bofbulletin.fi/en/blogs/202...

Four of these parties don't even exist lol

Today marks 1000 days since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In 9 regions, people have spent over 10% of this time under air alerts. Please support Ukraine by spreading the word, donating (savelife.in.ua/en/donate-en/), and advocating for aid.
#UkrainianView

The boss has arrived

@dacemoglumit.bsky.social

During the 1990/91 Gulf War, Germany spent 0.6% of its GDP supporting the international alliance under US leadership !
So 0.1% now for a war in Europe vs 0.6% the for a war in the Gulf.

just a bug

After all, there have been a lot of formal reasons to strip him of security clearance. Drug use and contacts with Putin to say the least.

I suspect they are limited in doing so because of Musk's importance for space intelligence and Starlink's role on the Ukrainian battlefield and in Taiwan.

- www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt...
- The table of contents from ISBN:9780857936523 can be a starting point.
- World Bank Working Paper WPS2444

Credit conditions in russia now are similar to conditions during the Global Financial Crisis.

russia is desperate... for a break

#UkrainianView #Ukraine

go.bsky.app/Uzh1eqg

Two Wrongs Can Sometimes Make a Right: The Environmental Benefits of Market Power in Oil Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

The OPEC cartel saved $4 trillion in climate damages and potentially was the single biggest contributor to meeting the Paris targets. www.nber.org/papers/w33115

Earth Will Exceed 1.5 Degrees Celsius of Warming This Year This year won’t just be the hottest on record—it could be the first to surpass the 1.5-degree-Celsius threshold laid out in the Paris climate accord

Spent yesterday grieving, angry, afraid and writing this:

You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food?

Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local. Transport emissions are very small for most food products.

Never again. (1945)
Again. (2024)

This is Roman Gorilyk after two years of Russian captivity. Roman is the senior controller of the checkpoint of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant. Russians took him and the other 168 National Guard servicemen hostage.👇

The graph plots the death rate (crude, per 1,000 people) against the natural logarithm of real GDP per capita in 2011 US dollars, comparing Ukraine, Russia, and an average of "Leaders" which includes Israel, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. While the Leaders' trajectory is generally stable with relatively low death rate and GDP per capita, Ukraine's and Russia's trajectories remind letter S.

2023 is now virtually certain (>99% chance) to be the warmest year since records began in the mid-1800s across all the different temperature records that have reported data through September. I dig into the details in a new analysis over at
@CarbonBrief
: carbonbrief.org/analysis-gre...

Not sure, however, why the Feb 2023 paper says that the US commitments amounted to €73.18 B, and now their tracker estimates the US commitments to be €69.48 B...