Season 3 of Special Ops Lioness is a new Homeland: a show that channels the government's narrative, this one an anti-Ukrainian one Most of the time, Ukraine has no agency, but when it does, it seeks to drag the US deeper into conflict with Russia.
Shota Hintsagty
@hintsagty.bsky.social
Interested in religion and nationalism, gender and queer politics, and media and democracy, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. Doctoral researcher at Lund University. https://linktr.ee/hintsagty
Gårdagens val innebar en ”Mamdani:sering” av det urbana Sverige och klyftan mellan stad och land är nu större än någonsin tidigare tobiashubinette.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/g... Även om SD backade så är ”SD-land” geografiskt sett nu större än tidigare medan de rödgröna dominerar helt i storstäderna
Georgia has detained opposition leader Gia Baramidze over his own accusations that Georgian forces shot POWs - a claim from the man who led the state commission on prisoner swaps in 1992-93 (A Russian 'court' in Donetsk sentenced him in absentia in February for fighting for Ukraine btw).
New BGNES (Bulgarian agency) documentary on the repackaged Greater Serbia, with the Serbian Orthodox Church as its most convenient instrument: it already has structures "everywhere Serbs live," so it does the political work in places where Belgrade cannot and doesn't need to act as a state
The Creeping Frontiers of the Serbian World | Пълзящите граници на Сръбски свят
YouTube video by BGNES Agency
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Kosovo guarantees religious freedom in its constitution but withholds the legal tools that would make it usable
Can a State Be Neutral About Religion? Kosovo’s Ongoing Debate
Explore Kosovo’s constitutional debate on religious neutrality, from school headscarf rules to legal gaps facing faith communities.
religioninpraxis.com
New video! It feels like the "male gaze" has finally reached mainstream recognition as a bad movie trope. Now, women are sharing their own stories, and men are... well, what are we doing? What does male desire look like in this new era? Can we still gaze? youtu.be/An5WXkDqBfU
A nuanced look at state-religious minority dynamics: Hui mosques and burial grounds in China persist in a grey zone of missing titles and unenforced planning rules. Tolerance as non-enforcement. Peter Ho on Religion in Praxis: open.spotify.com/episode/4EfhSyLmSSBYBeW4VIukKK
The Looking-Away: How Tolerance Really Works
Religion in Praxis Conversation Series · Episode
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My colleagues have produced a report on transnational far-right activism. A different sort of diaspora diplomacy to the one I teach on #GI7100
London Met academics produce major report on transnational far-right activism - London Metropolitan University
The report looked into the radicalisation of a small section of Polish migrants in Britain
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In a new OCMediaorg article, RUTA member Tatev Hovhannisyan explores how anti-gender rhetoric, "foreign agent" laws, and Russian imperial influence are reshaping feminist activism in Sakartvelo. Amid growing repression, feminist networks continue to build solidarity. oc-media.org/a-soviet-sty...
‘A Soviet-style culture of informants’: how Georgia’s feminists learned to live under siege
As pressure on civil society intensifies, feminist activists describe a growing atmosphere of fear and quiet survival.
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"[E]ast of Berlin, this density of cultural symbols abruptly vanishes. The space stretching toward Moscow is filled only with anonymous 'pine trees' and the figure of a skier [...] This is a literal embodiment of Chakrabarty's (2000) 'waiting room of history'"
A memorable day in June at the Trakai Orthodox Church of the Nativity and the Karaim kenesa. I hope to be back soon in Lithuania
Some personal news: my name, Shota Kincha, is becoming Shota Hintsagta. The story is a bit complicated. My legal surname is Khinchagashvili - a Georgianised version, just like Khinchagov - a Russified one. Underneath is the Ossetian root Хинцаг and clan surname Khintsagtæ. Hence Hintsagta.
I talked with Dr. Dan DeHanas to examine the spiritual architecture of contemporary populism. Dan argues that what we are witnessing in 2024 and 2025 is not simply politics dressed up in religious language - it is something qualitatively different open.spotify.com/episode/2GZc...
When Politics Becomes Prophecy: Daniel DeHanas on Trump, Faith, and the New Apocalyptic
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Disaffiliation isn't just secularisation, it's also people walking away from a brand they don't want to be associated with? From 42-3 min
Understanding the Spiritual-But-Not-Religious | Learning from Prof. Nancy Ammerman
YouTube video by Sacred Design Lab
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Came across this in a Warsaw doorway: a plaque with the visual grammar of fiscal transparency, minus the recipient :) The actual transparency on Fundacja Inicjatyw Młodzieżowych, a PiS-aligned, typical patronage NGO, came from Onet, OKO.press, and Frontstory, not by the state that funded it.
It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...
Kanske symptomatiskt för den bredare amerikaniseringen men hur många svenska queers känner till kulmen av den amerikanska frigörelsens startsalva Stonewall utan att känna till *Europas* första s.k. homopolitiska demonstration med Gay Power Club 1 den 15e maj 1971 i Örebro
Talk Eastern Europe, the Podcast of @neweasterneurope.eu, recently lost a major funding source. If you can, I highly suggest taking out a subscription. With it, you can listen to in depth interviews with experts on the post-Soviet sphere! www.patreon.com/talkeasterne...
Get more from Talk Eastern Europe on Patreon
Bringing voices of Central and Eastern Europe to you each week
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DC Friends! Please join me to launch my new book, The Queer Face of War: Portraits and Stories from Ukraine at Politics and Prose's Wharf location. I'll be in conversation with the extraordinary @chrisgeidner.bsky.social discussing homophobia and the global assault on democracy.
CitizenGO has caused significant harm. In addition to this valuable Good Law Project piece on the organisation’s UK connections, our co-authored report on the subject shows its damaging transnational impact in Latin America and Kenya. Both are well worth reading! lassociacio.org/wp-content/u...
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Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · 9mo agoBased in Spain with links to Russia, hardcore conservative campaign group CitizenGO’s accounts show it received over $7m of donations last year. It closed its UK arm in 2023 – but we’ve revealed that the organisation is actually expanding its operations on these shores. https://goodlaw.social/l1vd
In Sweden, nuns from the St Elisabeth Convent, which was originally based in Belarus, were found to be working for Russian intelligence. Active in 20 churches across the country, they raised funds for the Russian army while posing as a charity. united24media.com/latest-news/...
Russian “Z-Nuns” Busted for Running Spy Network Through Swedish Churches
Swedish authorities investigate Orthodox nuns allegedly linked to Russian military actions and using church sales for pro-Kremlin activities.
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Sharing from the part that speaks to one of the aspects of violent right-wing extremism I find most interesting: its normalisation youtu.be/7GSWsVdoh2M?...
On the Fringe: Terrorism, Extremism & Radicalization in America | Chris Verga | Episode 148
YouTube video by The TLB Podcast
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As nationalism grows ever more central to international politics, the Vienna-based Central European University department that studies it is on the verge of extinction. So what would be lost if this small but scrappy program disappears?
The rise and fall of nationalism studies
What the demise of a small department in an embattled university says about the future of Europe and the world.
politico.eu
'[G]ender- and sexuality-related articles were almost absent on RT Deutsch before 2018, but increased sharply in 2018, and have been constantly present since' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Academia misdelivering for political and market demand
