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My newsletter provides analysis and insights on terrorism & insurgency, private military companies, and state-linked security services in Russia. I provide research on Russia and academic editing services.
Happy Friday! In January, I published an in-depth report on patterns in terrorism and state responses in the North Caucasus in 2024. That report drew on a unique, multi-source dataset of incidents that I compiled. If you’ve not read it already, you can dowload it here. It’s now the start of April, so it’s a good time to look at what has happened in the first quarter of the year and whether the trends are positive or negative. So that’s what I’m going to do in today’s newsletter! What I’ll...
Happy Friday! This week I’m going to provide a work-in-progress biography of Khuseyn Mezhidov, one of the Chechen commanders that Reuters identified as possibly involved in the Bucha massacre. There are a lot of unfilled gaps in his story — in part because I’ve mainly been focused on client work this week, and I’m taking a long weekend! — but some of the thus-far unanswered questions are interesting in and of themselves. What I’ll cover this week: Some background on who Mezhidov is Evidence...
This week, I want to talk about a new side project I’m launching: An in-depth investigation into Chechen involvement in the Bucha massacre in March 2022. I’m going to be working on (and therefore talking about) this for a while, so I want to give you a little insight into the reasons behind it, and where I’m starting from. Full disclosure: I am NOT good at sharing work in progress. On the one hand, I’m too much of a perfectionist to let something out of the door unless I’ve dotted every i and...