Alexander Vorbrugg

Of trolleybuses and mountains: struggling for clean air in Kyrgyzstan and community empowerment in Tajikistan - The Eurasian Climate Brief Today, we are introducing you to two people at the forefront of activism and resistance to very concrete environmental issues in their home countries, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.Boris met Bermet Boruba...

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What role did environmental issues play during this year’s Ukraine Recovery Conference?

Ievgeniia Kopytsia and I provide answers in this @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social article:
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We summarise debates, identify contradictions, and make some suggestions on strategies

✍️ #Ukraine plans to sign high seas treaty that #Russia refuses to join

Russia's unwillingness to sign the #HighSeasTreaty may well be related to its interest in resource extraction in the #Arctic.

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Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia's War Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia's War, The first book to explore the environmental impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine

The book can be ordered here: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

My review of @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social's book "Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia's War" is out, open access, here: gh.copernicus.org/articles/80/...
A truly outstanding book on environmental impacts, how people and non-humans cope, sad, beautifully written, very accessible!

Il y a 57 ans, les tanks soviétiques roulaient sur les pavés de #Prague. C'était le début de l'occupation de la Tchécoslovaquie sous prétexte d'"aide fraternelle". Un vocable qui n'a pas disparu chez certains. Mais l'histoire est là pour nous avertir. N'oublions pas. ✌️🇨🇿

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I’m honoured to announce the release of the volume "Russia against Ukraine: Russian Political Mythology and the War on Ukrainian Identity", a multi-author study that examines the politically driven hostility towards Ukraine deeply rooted in Russian geopolitical chauvinism: buff.ly/obr8I30

Thanks so much Stefan, also for your generous blurb!

Dispersed Dispossession This book provides a nuanced analysis of rural change in Russia during the 2010s, a crucial and formative phase marked by the consolidation of giant agricult...

If you haven't gotten yours yet, now get a a copy of @alexvorbrugg.bsky.social 's brilliant book on dispersed dispossession in rural Russia.
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Ecocide in Ukraine. The Environmental Cost of Russia’s War. Book review – Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group Alexander Vorbrugg Ecocide in Ukraine is an outstanding testimony to the environmental costs of Russia’s war, a moving tribute to humans, ecosystems, animals, and plants in Ukraine, and a thoughtful r...

A thoughtful review of @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social's 'Ecocide in Ukraine' by @alexvorbrugg.bsky.social published on the website of the Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group

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Zagreb vor Großkonzert von Rechtsextremem Thompson

Dieses Konzert sollte ganz #Europa alarmieren: Marko Perković aka Thompson, tritt heute in #Zagreb vor bis zu 500.000 Menschen auf.

Er steht für eine gefährliche Mischung aus Rechtsextremismus, Nationalismus und der Verherrlichung des Ustaša-Regimes.

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Aufstieg des Endzeitfaschismus Die Bewegung für unternehmensgeführte Stadtstaaten kann ihr Glück kaum fassen. Seit Jahren propagiert sie die extreme Vorstellung, dass wohlhabende, steuerscheue Menschen ihre eigenen Hightech-Lehen g...

Es ist wie Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor @blaetter.bsky.social beschreiben: „Aufstieg des Endzeitfaschismus”. Ideologische Grundierung beginnt jedoch nicht im Trumpismus oder im Umfeld der AfD, sondern in bürgerlicher Mitte, die Privilegien erhalten & die Wirtschaft über das Leben der Vielen stellt.

EEI magazine - summer 2025 edition

Is rearmament costing the Earth?

Our OpEd in this summer's European Energy Innovation magazine explores how spiralling military spending places EU and global climate goals at risk. www.europeanenergyinnovation.eu/OnlinePublic... #COP30

Fokus Energiestandort Schweiz

Die CH verfügt über tech. Mittel und Investitionskraft, um die #Energiewende schnell umzusetzen. Was fehlt, sind Rahmenbedingungen, die ökol. und sozioökonomische Faktoren gleichermassen berücksichtigen.

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Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group has been highlighting the far-reaching environmental consequences of Russia's full-scale invasion of #Ukraine since 2022.

In a time of ecocide in Ukraine, please read @daryatsymbalyuk.bsky.social 's outstanding book, and support @uwecworkgroup.bsky.social 's important work!

(PDF) Preface by the Series Editor PDF | In: Ian Garner and Taras Kuzio, eds., Russia and Modern Fascism: New Perspectives on the Kremlin's War Against Ukraine. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag,... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

In: Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social and Taras Kuzio, eds., Russia and Modern Fascism: New Perspectives on the Kremlin's War Against Ukraine. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2025.

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1/ 🛰️ How can we record the environmental and economic consequences of #war from #space?

🔗 Read about how #satellite data aid assessment of the extent of damage and chances for recovery of #Ukraine in an article on the UWEC website: uwecworkgroup.info/satellite-da...

The transformation of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Certification Scheme in Russia after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine This article investigates the transformation of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification scheme in Russia into the complementary Forest Etal…

Curious what happened to forest certification in Russia, country with largest forest area, when FSC left after full-scale invasion of Ukraine? Our research on this, and what it says about institutional/governance adaptation to global decoupling, is published
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How to cope with grief and find wonder as Earth's climate changes - The Washington Post This week, large parts of the country are experiencing extreme heat and humidity. Alaska issued its first-ever heat advisory. Climate scientist Kate Marvel tells us how to fight climate fatalism and f...

Kate Marvel, Climate Scientist at NASA and formerly, Project Drawdown, has written an extraordinary and beautiful book on emotions surrounding climate change called, "Human Nature."

Check out her recent interview with the @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...

Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe – major report False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised

"UN special rapporteur on human rights and climate change, Elisa Morgera, called for misinformation and greenwashing by the fossil fuel industry to be criminalise"

Damn right

And fossil fuel CEOs should be first in the dock

Climate lies cost lives

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Adam Calo, Sylvia Kay, Sarah R Sippel, Coline Perrin, and Kirsteen Shields explore how geographically variegated property regimes in the Global North shape the scope of the commodification and assetization of farmland, and discuss radical alternatives to private property.
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If you are interested in land politics, check out @econgeo.bsky.social 's Institutional Landscapes webpage. They are graciously hosting this guest post:

The Amazon rainforest emerges as the new global oil frontier Half a century of oil drilling has left the Amazon rainforest scarred -and a new wave of fossil fuel extraction is coming

Brazil is set to auction 172 oil and gas blocks today... 68 of them are in the Amazon. It’s happening just as the country prepares to host #COP30, raising concerns over the expansion of fossil fuels in one of the world’s most vital ecosystems.

Russia air attack damaged Boeing offices in Ukraine Aerial strikes hit US aerospace giant’s premises in Kyiv, raising questions about Moscow’s intent

Apparently, the deterrent effect of US investment in Ukraine is limited.

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Angesichts der Verbindungen des mutmaßlichen Attentäters in die Welt der sog. independent charismatic Christianity und New Apostolic Reformation, hier (frei für alle) meine Podcast-Doppelfolge mit @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social aus dem letzten Jahr, über ihren Einfluss und Radikalisierungspotential:

Herzlichen Dank!

The power of everyday politics in Russia: feeling for an absent presence This is a longer summary of my new book written for Russia.Post. A version of it appeared there in May. Twenty-seven years ago, I began visiting a small industrial town in Kaluga region and its rus…

Last self-publicizing post on the book, I promise. I did a relatively accessible longer write up for Russia.Post in May. I've reblogged it today in case people missed it there and want the definitive: "this is what it covers". postsocialism.org/2025/06/12/t...

Rare good news delivered from the US, although personal. It's printed and will be available from 1 July

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