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Russia has abducted thousands of Ukrainian children, plunging families into every parent's worst nightmare. Now, Trump cuts threaten to close a Yale center that helps bring these children home. Please consider donating to help continue this work: sph.yale.edu/give-hrl

Important news for the families of the victims of Soviet repression/deportations in Moldova and those researching the topic: the National Archive Agency now has all of the files of the victims, and will post a list of those files online on July 5. There are about 48,000 ...

M: аr:a 📸 Before/After russian captivity. It’s 🇺🇦Pablo Shatokhin after 3 years in russian prison. Ukrainians looks like concentration camp prisoner. Please bring Ukrainians home! ICRC United Nations UN Human Rights UN Human Rights Council Amnesty International Int'l Criminal Court MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦 Dmytro Lubinets Гюндуз Мамедов/Gyunduz Mamedov

At the same time, most Russians don't think that the war poses a serious threat to them personally. In fact, threat perceptions have actually decreased somewhat over the past ~1.5 months.

Powerful op-ed by one of my college professors

From now on I will only be responding to “Almost Professor,” thanks.

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Putin: “I’ve already said that Russians and Ukrainians are one people. In that sense, all of Ukraine is ours. … We have this old rule, that wherever a Russian steps foot — that’s our territory.” Whatever this is, it’s not a president preparing his people for compromise.

My story about a newish phenomenon of deportations from the occupied areas of Ukraine. Russia tells people they are banned from “Russia” for 40/50 years, drives them 20 hours under guard to the border with Georgia and pushes them across theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…

❌ False premise. I am always talking about Latvia 🇱🇻 x.com/archi_traditio…

#Belarus Siarhei Tsikhanouski has been released! Among the released is also Ihar Karnei, ex-Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist.

New paper. Dídac Queralt and I published “The Political Legacy of Elite Repression” in CPS: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…. We show that repression of elites forces ordinary community members to circle the wagons in defense of group identity and to change how they vote.

How do Russians view the economic effects of the war against 🇺🇦? On the one hand, people have become increasingly dissatisfied w/ their personal financial situations in the last 2 months. On the other hand, worry about the economic consequences of the war hasn't changed much.

After twelve years with HURI, our director, Serhii Plokhii, is stepping down! We wish him all the best. Please enjoy his farewell message! Dear Friends and Colleagues, Today is my last day as Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute. (Message continues in the thread-)

Finally picked up my copy of Paula Erizanu’s new book about Moldovan history based on many interviews with people who have lived through the major events and changes of the last century. Can’t wait to read it!!

Approval of Donald Trump among Russians is now at the lowest level since fall 2024. After major upticks in approval in early February and early May, approval of the US president has been steadily eroding.

Former presidential candidates Natalia Morari (hello, New York Times) and Vasile Tarlev are the other two political figures banned entry to Romania and the Schengen area for security reasons according to deschide.md sources deschide.md/articole/break…

Vietnamese people seem particularly supportive of Chisinau’s mayor Ion Ceban, who has just been banned entry to Romania and the Schengen area due to security concerns 😂