Olga Onuch

Explosions in
Zaporizhzhia
Kamyanske
Kryvyi Rih
Dnipro.

It’s just before 5 am in Kyiv and Russia is sending hypersonic missiles. No one gets to sleep. May everyone stay safe.

NEW Harris & Harvard CAPS Poll shows Americans (Replicans + Democrats alike) want President Trump to punish Russia & support Ukraine.

77% of American voters support additional sanctions on Russia

68% believe the Trump administration should continue to arm Ukraine + impose sanctions

From Ukrainian air force

„Russians launched a massive combined strike on Ukraine with 549 aerial targets”

478 objects destroyed
-439 drones
-1 kinxhal missile
-32 cruise missiles Kh-101/Iskander-K
-6 Calibr missiles

Russian attack overnight on Ukraine: 50 missiles and 500 drones.

Via @united24media.com and monitorwar_ua

Tochnyi » The Human Safari An interactive map of the atrocities caused by the Russian Human Safari in Kherson, Ukraine.

🚑🚨New Interactive Map: Human Safari Russian drones stalk Kherson daily — indiscriminately hunting civilians. Since 2023, over 3,000 casualties have been recorded.

Explore how these war crimes has developed over the years in our interractive map🗺️ maps.tochnyi.info/humansafari/

The findings are sickening. But no one can look away or fail to understand them.

Russian “play” “Human Safari”
Purposely targeting ordinary citizens with drones to kill.

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social

The findings are sickening. But no one can look away or fail to understand them.

Russian “play” “Human Safari”
Purposely targeting ordinary citizens with drones to kill.

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social

@katerinasviderska.bsky.social

Pro-EU party in Moldova set to win election mired in claims of interference The vote was seen as critical for Moldova's EU path, and President Maia Sandu warned the country's future was in danger.

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Why Ukraine is winning the war Russia has failed to achieve its core aim — the destruction of the Ukrainian nation

I always say Russia lost the war it set out to win and moreover the war it is currently continuing is an unwinable war for Russia - at least in Ukraine.
www.ft.com/content/2a4d...

The years I spent at Oxford being mentored by @gwendolynsasse.bsky.social Nancy Bermeo Laurence Whitehead Jan Zielonka and later getting to work with wonderful colleagues like @benansell.bsky.social @profjanegreen.bsky.social and Dave Doyle have been hugely important in my academic development.

Celebrating 25 years of DPIR - Meet our remarkable staff, students, alumni and read more about our world-leading research.

Meet alumna @oonuch.bsky.social, Professor in Comparative and Ukrainian Politics at the University of Manchester: www.politics.ox.ac.u...

I was thrilled to see an impressive contingent of UK Politicians in Kyiv.

It was great to meet @alexsobel.co.uk I was sure to give him & other fellow MPs my best elevator pitch!

Congratulations on receiving the Order of Merit!
Please come speak @uompols.bsky.social in our Ukraine Rises course!

Congratulations to my fellow Ukrainian Canadian Oxonian @ox.ac.uk !

What great news for Ukraine @chrystia-freeland.bsky.social will be Canada’s special representative for the reconstruction of Ukraine.

I just had the opportunity to observe Chrystia Freeland in action up close at the YES conference she will excel in this role & Ukraine will be better supported.

Russia has learned its lesson. If it can’t win the hearts and minds of the citizens of its enemies it can create doubt, and enemies within those states. This ordinary citizen factor as a main battleground really needs to be understood as central and not additional.

…Where they show their cards. Where they highlight weaknesses.

Not only does this all facilitate future kinetic attacks - it also helps further undermines psychological resilience/capacity in society to deal with a crisis or its escalation.

This started first with massive coordinated disinformation campaigns in Poland, across allied states and elsewhere in the world. From LA to Asia.

Then Russia watches how leaders discuss the attack, where they struggle to articulate “correctly,” or convincingly or

I am surprised by how many people are missing the fact that the kinetic component and reaction to it (and seeking to prevent it the future) when it comes to the Russian drone attack on Poland is likely not “the main event” - that’s the cognitive warfare that unfolded thereafter.

Some reports are of at least 19 (!) Russia drones entered Polish airspace.

“Today there was another escalation step – Russian-Iranian “shaheds” operated in Polish airspace, in the airspace of NATO. Not 1 “shahed”, which could be called a coincidence, but at least 8 attack drones were aimed in the direction of Poland.” - Zelensky on telegram.

Congrats to Professors Liz Richardson, David Richards who were named Fellows of the @acadsocsciences.bsky.social.

Their research & leadership are shaping policy, governance & urban futures.

The whole Politics Department is very proud. Dave was our past HoD and Liz is our current HoD.

Photo of Liz Richardson, David Richards and Anupam Nanda

Congrats to Professors Liz Richardson, David Richards & Anupam Nanda from @officialuom.bsky.social, named Fellows of the @acadsocsciences.bsky.social! Their research & leadership are shaping policy, governance & urban futures.

www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/a...

@uompols.bsky.social

Ukrainian🇺🇦 anthem sung in the metro of #Kyiv by residents of the capital who had taken refuge underground during the massive Russian attack on #Ukraine last night on September 7. 📹 #Україна🇺🇦#StopRussia #CloseTheSkyOverUkraine

If leading indices suggest only a modest erosion of global democracy, what explains the widespread perception of steep decline?

Read "Democracy's Surprising Resilience" by Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way:

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Venezuela’s Lost Year | Journal of Democracy A year ago Nicolás Maduro stole Venezuela’s election and entrenched his power by jailing and killing those who opposed him. But the world’s democracies don’t need to sit on the sidelines.

A year ago, Nicolás Maduro stole Venezuela’s election and entrenched his power by jailing and killing those who opposed him.

Massive attack across all
Of Ukraine. Again. Russia terrorizes ordinary Ukrainians.

Democracy After Illiberalism: A Warning from Poland | Journal of Democracy Restoring liberalism after illiberalism is no easy task: Leaders face hard choices between acting quickly and effectively while maintaining a commitment to democratic procedure. Worse…

After a democracy turns illiberal, can it return to democracy again? Here are the reasons why democracy after illiberalism is hard to maintain.

If Venezuela has historically exhibited some of the highest levels of public support for democracy in Latin America, how did it become an autocracy?

The combination of "an aspiring autocrat and a highly polarized electorate" are to blame. Read more:

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