Researcher @BalcaniCaucaso, crunching data @EdjNet, previously at Dublin City University @IICRR. #ddj #rstats Current project: https://xitter.cf/t.co/NhfIOCfQT4
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This is part of the main project I'm currently working on:
"Text as data & data in the text - Studying conflicts in post-Soviet spaces through structured analysis of textual contents available on-line"
Check out the project website, and expect much more: tadadit.xyz/
In my latest - balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Areas… - I explore how some of my own findings confirm the centrality of the ideological circles at the centre of Juliette Faure's excellent book, "The Rise of the Russian Hawks: Ideology and Politics from the Late Soviet Union to Putin’s #Russia"
Juliette Faure's book: doi.org/10.1017/978100954266… - and a recent article doi.org/10.1017/eis.2025.100…
Link to my own piece in English - balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Areas… - and in Italian - balcanicaucaso.org/aree/Russ…
"gli accordi di pace diventano ostaggi dei mutamenti geopolitici e rischiano di degenerare in un preludio a nuovi conflitti, sfollamenti di massa e guerre prolungate."
Ora anche in italiano su @BalcaniCaucaso l'importante contributo di @Olesya_vArt
Important (and timely!) contribution by @Olesya_vArt:
> "Nagorno-Karabakh and the Collapse of Russia’s Peacekeeping Mission: What Weak Mandates and Absent Guarantees Can Teach Us"
blogs.lse.ac.uk/crp/2025/07/…
Important (and timely!) contribution by @Olesya_vArt:
> "Nagorno-Karabakh and the Collapse of Russia’s Peacekeeping Mission: What Weak Mandates and Absent Guarantees Can Teach Us"
blogs.lse.ac.uk/crp/2025/07/…
Why there shouldn’t be expectations about any breakthrough in the negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul?
In his famous Odnako programme on Russia’s First Channel, Leontyev explains:
#Russia
What are the "root causes" of the conflict with Ukraine according to Russia?
My latest structured analysis shows that in Kremlin-speech they do not effectively relate to Ukraine, but rather to the world order and Russia's place in it: tadadit.xyz/posts/2025-06-ro… #Russia
What are the "root causes" of the conflict with Ukraine according to Russia?
My latest structured analysis shows that in Kremlin-speech they do not effectively relate to Ukraine, but rather to the world order and Russia's place in it: tadadit.xyz/posts/2025-06-ro… #Russia
As Romanians flock to the polls, time to bring back my quantitative analysis showing the incredible density of Romanian polling stations in Italy:
half of Italian residents could drive to a Romanian polling station in less than 35 minutes.
codebase.giorgiocomai.eu/201… #Romania 🇷🇴
"No amount of unilateral Ukrainian concessions would address what Russia considers the ‘root causes’ of the conflict."
My latest: balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Areas… #Ukraine #Russia
Russian nationalist media Tsargrad openly criticises Russian financial assistance to Abkhazia, comparing it to lack of support for displaced residents from the Kursk oblast.
"Стыд: Россия продолжает кормить мошенников в Абхазии" dzen.ru/a/Z4tSav1ZNQzJDLsG
-> tsargrad.tv/articles/abhazii…
I somehow missed Tsargrad's earlier extensive reporting on this: tsargrad.tv/investigations/s…
A playlist of Abkhaz-language cover songs of international hits starting from Abba's "Happy New Year" ending with "One way ticket to the moon".
Can you guess all songs in between?
My favourite soundtrack for New Year's eve, just re-uploaded on YouTube:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
A few months ago, in reference to the impending crisis in Transnistria, @bervent and I argued that "when buying time,it's important to make sure to use it wisely."
Step 1: buy time
Step 2: use it wisely
We focused on step 2, but step 1 is of the essence
balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Areas…
As 31 December approaches with no gas deal in sight for Transnistria, thinking of this old but gold song about Gazprom (meant in earnest)
"you'll never ever find
A surer friend than Gazprom.
We're giving people warmth and light
For office and for home"
youtu.be/xGbI87tyr_4
Meanwhile, in Transnistria they're releasing infographics on how to ensure safety at home as gas may be cut in January. novostipmr.com/ru/news/24-12…
Context (still valid, as no deal found): ispionline.it/en/publication…
The ongoing energy crisis in Abkhazia, with residents getting electricity for a couple of hours per day, reminds me of this 2005 documentary about the privatisation of Tbilisi's electricity company:
trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=rPGKgo7W…
about: pbs.org/independentlens/docu…