RRU Conflict Analysis Graduate, Applied Intelligence Master’s Candidate, Contributor @GraphicPolicy I enjoy systems theory, conflict assessment and pop culture.
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A Russian bot forgot to switch its account from MAGA to "Ukrainian." 😀
This is how Russians simulate public opinion and pressure politicians into adopting a pro-Russian stance—leading them to believe that this is what their electorate demands. That is why it is important to express your position openly.
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EXCLUSIVE: With Americans getting ready to cast their ballots on November 3rd, 2026, the Cybernews team examined 104 reported political deepfakes from the Resemble AI database from early 2025 to October 13th, 2026. Read full research: cnews.link/political-deepfak…
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Este livro está fazendo um enorme sucesso nos Estados Unidos. Trata de como as High Techs declararam guerra às democracias.
Link: link.amazon/B0exPAuCj
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Perspectives on the State
These are some of the books I have been reading to understand how the state has been understood from different perspectives, some more rooted in philosophy, others in the social sciences.
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New @Viginum_Gouv investigation on #GlobUs, a front organisation used by Russian politologists previously linked to Prigozhin to carry out influence operations for the Russian State in Africa (Congo, Cameroon).
sgdsn.gouv.fr/files/files/vi…
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Sony has suffered a massive data breach affecting around 2.58 million So-net and plala customers.
Sony Network Communications says hackers accessed its member database on October 19. Leaked information includes:
• Names
• User IDs
• Email addresses
• Other customer information
• 16 bank account records, including account numbers and bank names
The company says it has not found any leaked credit card numbers or expiration dates, and it does not store customers’ bank PINs.
Sony says the affected servers have been shut down and the unauthorized connections blocked, while internet services continue to operate.
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Amazing achievement. In 2024, Serbian students issued this letter to "Students Around the world"
“The world is on the brink of collapse, representative democracy is failing and our future is at risk...There are countless reasons for a blockade, and you know best what yours is"
Sırbistan'da öğrenciler doğrudan demokrasi yöntemini seçim siyasetine taşıdılar.
Liderlere dayalı, yukarıdan aşağıya bir örgütlenme yerine, herkesin söz alabildiği öğrenci genel kurulları (plenum) oluşturdular. Kararlar tartışılarak, mümkün olduğunca uzlaşmayla alındı.
Bu yöntemi üniversitelerin dışına da taşıdılar. Mahallelerde, kentlerde ve köylerde yurttaş meclisleri (zborovi) kuruldu. İnsanlar kendi sorunlarını tartışmak, çözüm önermek ve birlikte karar almak için toplandı.
250 kişilik milletvekili aday listesini de şöyle oluşturdular:
1- Önce 250 adaylık kontenjanı, öğrenci sayılarına göre altı üniversite kenti arasında paylaştırdılar. Belgrad'ın listeye hâkim olmaması için diğer kentlerin de üst sıralarda temsil edilmesini sağladılar. Ardından her kentin kontenjanını fakülteler arasında dağıttılar.
2- Ülke genelinde 80'den fazla fakültede öğrenci genel kurulları toplandı. Öğrenciler kendileri aday olmadı ama her biri aday önerebildi ve neden o kişiyi önerdiğini açıkladı. İsimler tartışıldı, önce uzlaşma arandı, gerektiğinde oylama yapıldı.
3- Mevcut siyasi kadrolara kapıyı kapattılar. İktidar partilerinin mevcut ve eski üyelerini, iktidar adına görev yapmış siyasetçileri ve bürokratları, muhalefet partilerinin üst düzey yöneticilerini aday göstermediler. Böylece hem iktidardan hem de yerleşik muhalefetten bağımsız bir liste oluşturdular.
4- Fakülteler birbirlerinin adaylarını da denetledi. Önerilen bütün isimler ortak bir listede toplandı ve tüm fakültelerin incelemesine açıldı. İtirazlar öğrenci kurullarında tartışıldı. Adayın elenmesi için kurulların yarısından fazlasının veto etmesi gerekiyordu. Tek bir fakültenin itirazı yeterli değildi.
5- Elenen veya çekilen adayların yerine yedekler getirildi. Böylece profesörlerin, doktorların, bilim insanlarının, işçilerin, sanatçıların ve aktivistlerin yer aldığı 250 kişilik liste ortaya çıktı.
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Rising geopolitical conflict across the world is driving countries in multiple regions to establish new bilateral currency swap facilities. In the Middle East, the UAE has extended a new local-currency (dirham) swap line to Bahrain—whose debt has surged owing to a drop in oil revenues from Iran’s attacks in the Strait of Hormuz. Russia—financially constrained by sharply curtailed access to the SWIFT global cross-border payments system since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine—has established a new swap line with Kazakhstan.
Since the financial crisis of 2007, central banks around the world have entered into a multitude of bilateral currency swap agreements with one another. These agreements allow a central bank in one country to exchange currency, usually its domestic currency, for a certain amount of foreign currency. The recipient central bank can then lend this foreign currency on to its domestic banks, on its own terms and at its own risk.
CFR expert Benn Steil's interactive map tracks central bank currency swaps from the 2007 crisis through the COVID-19 pandemic and into the present. Explore our tracker to learn more about how geopolitical shocks have reshaped the global financial safety net: cfr.org/articles/central-ban…
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The Concept of the State in IR
This volume, with contributions by political theorists, legal scholars, and IR specialists, offers a critical assessment of some concepts of the state.
For information on this volume: academic.oup.com/edinburgh-s…
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Damn! They was fast. Ukraine has launched its first satellite for its own communications network
🛰 Great news! Ukraine has launched its first satellite for its own communications network
Himera, together with Denmark's GomSpace, has launched the Obria Nano satellite into orbit.
With its help, Ukraine will be able to develop its own communications infrastructure, relying less on foreign satellite systems.
The first test satellite of Ukraine's future sovereign satellite communications network is already undergoing testing.
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‼️ Serbia's Aleksandar Vučić conceded defeat to a student movement after 14 years in power.
Six days before the vote, Citizen Lab confirmed Pegasus spyware on the iPhone of the Belgrade University rector, who backed the students.
Researchers count 16+ targets in Serbia in 2026.
The hack on rector Vladan Đokić used a zero-click exploit, so he never had to tap a thing. Serbian authorities had raided his offices in March and seized computers and servers.
Apple also warned prosecutor Rade Bajić in August that mercenary spyware had targeted his iPhone, which Citizen Lab is still analysing.
Bajić had investigated officials suspected of forging documents to clear a Trump Tower project in Belgrade linked to Jared Kushner, SHARE Foundation says.
Amnesty International has documented Serbian authorities using Cellebrite tools to unlock opponents' phones and sometimes plant spyware.
Citizen Lab has not named who deployed Pegasus. NSO Group says it sells only to governments.
The Students' List is projected to win 138 of 250 seats on a turnout near 70%, the highest since 1992.
Vučić blamed the loss on independent media and an "American deep state".
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Europe and Canada are being connected by a direct undersea internet cable that bypasses the US.
The project will be called Leif Erikson, named after one of the first Scandinavian explorers to reach America.
It will be one of the first parts of Canada's "Sovereign Cable System" because a large majority of current cables are either passing by the US or controlled by US companies.
The cable itself will be built and operated by Bulk, a Norwegian digital infrastructure company.
Europe is building resilience into a global ecosystem that has many chokepoints controlled by the US.
