Kevin Rothrock

Once upon a time, I had a hyugely popular Anglophone Russia Twitter list. I used it to gather together all the top Russia-focused journalists, experts, etc. I've recreated the list, but let me know if you think somebody is missing. I might even add them. x.com/i/lists/191386…

On this week’s Naked Pravda, the great @maxseddon talks about his “wrong man” thriller, “The Putin Whisperers,” which was the cover story in FT Weekend Magazine last month and became a kind of Rorschach test for commentators on the war in Ukraine. meduza.io/en/episodes/20…

A senior officer in Ukraine's SBU security service arrested in a probe into bribes that shielded scam call centers is out after colleagues helped post $1.4M bail. Serhiy Duka denies the charges and calls them revenge for the SBU's own probe of anti-corruption officials. unian.net/society/figura…

Putin has placed dozens of foreign companies' Russian units under state management, and the new managers are helping to fund the Russian army, Bloomberg reports. For now, while the Kremlin courts the Trump admin, major U.S. businesses have largely been spared. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Leaked Russian state records indicate that at least 450,000 Russians had been killed in the war against Ukraine by August 2026, an FT analysis finds. About 120,000 of the deaths with a recorded location came in one district (the one containing Avdiivka and Pokrovsk). ft.com/content/7377e0…