Jeremy Morris

Re-uping

terrifying myself by imagining that, somewhere out there, someone with more security clearance than brain cells is planning covert operations using chat gpt

YouTube video by Russia Unfiltered Is It Okay to Like Russia? | Russia Unfiltered #1

www.youtube.com/watch?v=icO5...

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

great example of alternative data science

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 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.

The loneliness of the long-distance war supporter in Russia. New Blogpost postsocialism.org/2025/10/03/t...

By this decommunization logic, anyone who did any cultural production which saw the light of day between 1917-1991 is a collaborator with a colonial authority? Jeez, good luck with your postcolonial nation building!

Like, no shit, Sherlock! Nowhere can the article admit that Shepitko was not just a Soviet filmmaker, but one of global stature in the 20thC. What a shame on (and for) Ukraine.

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

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"

Volodya Z, you say?

t.co/v9KUuQSiWZ

Current Reading: Maria Gunko, "Nothing there. A small Armenian town between
disappearance and endurance"

A crypto way out: cryptocurrency, techno-economic imaginaries, and crisis in Russia Russia is a global forerunner in cryptocurrency adoption. This paper explores how cryptocurrency, as a techno-economic actant, informs the way Russians strategize their lives and imagine alternativ...

From www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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]"

Volume 124 Issue 864 | Current History | University of California Press

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…

less than in inch between that wank and anti-miscengenation laws.

'How cultivated and sensitive -or how superficial - must his Anglo-Saxon readers be, to have accepted this fascinating artist.' - Stefan Napukski

Conrad's conviction that British tolerance, even if it is sometime naive, is better than foreign extremism and foreign cynicism. Wonderfully revealed through the mouth of an exasperated Russian aristocrat in The Secret Agent. (lack of open repression makes Britain the mockery of Europe)

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.'

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.

The elephant in the lecture hall: Russian intelligence and Western academia Recent revelations of Russia’s espionage activities involving individuals associated with higher education highlight a troubling reality: the restrained curiosity within Western academia about Russ...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Kuzminov had an element of authoritarianism, but he invited people to HSE who were able to object to him. And, even if later, for various reasons, such people were relegated to less noticeable positions..." Yakovlev provides cover for the myth of HSE as 'like any Western one'.

Андрей Яковлев: «По линии ФСБ Вышку передали из ведения службы экономической безопасности в ведение службы по защите конституционного строя и борьбы с терроризмом» - Т-инвариант / T-invariant Почему среди всех новых знаменитых вузов, возникших в постсоветской России, Высшая школа экономики оказалась в худшем положении? В какой момент в вузе началась эпоха солидарности с государственной иде...

Obviously I don't agree with some of it, but it's at least a chink of light on how the narrative of Russian universities as bastions of liberal freedom was always a self-exculpating narrative. Like this pabulum t-invariant.org/2023/10/andr...

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.

Re-upping because the algo punishes links. Saturday coffee/other beverage reading about how postmodern authoritarianism is not about hard coercion or regime ideology but far more insidious.

‘Spiritual values’ of the booze shops. Russia’s convenience economy as part of the soft administrative regime, Part II Consumption according to station is a moral virtue – achieving some kind of comfort and habitability becomes an ethical marker, rather than a purely socio-economic one

Comfort is maintained by a neocolonial service class. But it’s also about the ‘doxa’: the naturalized and inevitable order: everyone has their labour price, and if yours is low, it’s the Red and White for you.
postsocialism.org/2025/09/19/s...

Uk is similar in that ownership is hegemonic. However, it only needed a generation to shift this (both against and then towards desire for ownership)

unequivocally yes.