The expression "collective West" has never appeared in official Kremlin statements before 2021.But dozens of times since then.

How did this concept that usefully frames the West as a single hostile entity enter Putin's vocabulary?

A data-driven analysis tadadit.xyz/posts/2023-03-… As so many other things, it may originate from what used to be fringe nationalist circles.

- Zero mentions by the Kremlin before 2021
- Almost nothing by Pervy Kanal
- Very little even from Tsargrad
- but frequent on nationalist weekly Zavtra since 2015

Election results in Romania by now almost final. #alegeri2020 🇷🇴

Here are the results for the main parties in each local administrative unit.

Detailed maps for each party in this thread ⤵️ Top 9 parties

Do Western media really pay little attention to the ongoing war in Nagorno Karabakh?

A preliminary quantitative analysis in my latest research note.

Some graphs in a thread here ⬇️

giorgiocomai.eu/post/2020-10-h… This is based on a quantitative analysis of the number of articles mentioning at least once "Karabakh" on The New York Times and The Guardian.

As a term of comparison, I used the August 2008 war in South Ossetia (I know, not ideal, but still a point of reference)

Just finished reading @OliverBullough's 'Moneyland'. It's thoroughly excellent.

Some thoughts: Readers with an interest in post-Soviet affairs may associate "Moneyland" more with Cooley and Heathershaw's "Dictators without border", than to Bullough's own previous writing on the Caucasus.