Dimitry Kochenov

My @mitpress “Citizenship” 📕 is subject of an erudite review in @nybooks, @atossaaraxia taking #statelessness as a starting point BUT: #Citizenship, NOT statelessness is the problem! @eksmo_live @edizionimulino @univgroningen mitpress.mit.edu/books/citizens…

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From lecturing anti-Putin Russians about their collective guilt to becoming an American version of tentative - provided the goals of Trump’s “SMO” are achieved - pro-aggression vatnik, what a logical trajectory. What’s amazing about these people is not their lack of scruples - that’s always been obvious - but their sense of total impunity.

Belgian justice and brilliant lawyers behind this case is to be applauded -- but what about EU crimes TODAY? Omer Shatz and colleagues started EU Crimes agains Humanity: crimesagainsthumanity.eu/en Please consult the project and help bring criminals to justice.

Jack Verldi & I just got a piece accepted by ELJ: we engage with the absurdity of any "social contact" talk in the Union where taming power is not in the DNA. With the rise of "coordination" and omnibus legislation this glaring flaw is further exacerbated: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Hungary’s opposition leader Péter Magyar drew a huge crowd stretching from Budapest’s Heroes’ Square along Andrássy Boulevard. While Orbán’s parallel rally relied on hundreds of buses bringing supporters from the countryside and Romania, Magyar’s crowd was genuinely enthusiastic.

“It’s France saving Europe’s honour, not Spain” - says French Foreign Affairs Minister 🤦🏻 This is the EU’s tragedy in one sentence. A beauty contest between capitals over who gets the moral credit. Europe doesn’t need a winner. It needs a position.

As @amnesty, we want to remind @vonderleyen & EU leaders that human rights is the foundation of the rules-based order. Double standards and selective application of international law leave Europe more vulnerable, less credible and undermines its very raison d'être (1/2)

It took the US 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban, but only 9 days to replace Khamenei with Khamenei

That question mark seems superfluous to me.

@leonidragozin EU politicians are the rock bottom. They are not even cynical. They are self-satisfied fools.

Kaja Kallas' world is the East European world: It is us (good) and the Russians (bad) And nothing else exists. Nowhere. Ever.

✍️📄 In the Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, our researchers @ProfKochenov and Elena Basheska scrutinize the blood aristocracy principle underpinning citizenship and rights distribution, with an emphasis on naturalizations. Details: 👉 shorturl.at/pxeHy

A clash between citizens and recruitment officers, purportedly at Pochaina station in Kyiv. Just the sheer numbers of people who rushed to rescue one man, successfully. Reminds me of Maidan, more than anything. Via Strana

Everyone’s talking about Ursula von der Leyen’s “power grab” on Iran. Yet at closer look she’s not gaining power. She’s losing it. By speaking where she has no mandate, she’s alienating her own College, enraging member states, and betting EU credibility on Trump’s war aims. She also sidelining the very EU leaders, Costa and Kallas, whose cooperation she needs A Commission president who has lost the Council (!) doesn’t need to wait for 2029 to become irrelevant #EUCO @davcarretta @CSpillmann @DaveKeating

We engage with several misconceptions about citizenships and borders. @imidaily @indica @OSUNForum @HogicNedim @mitpress @FudanUniversity

💥New article out❗️ @ElenaBasheska & I delve into the blood aristocracy principle underpinning citizenship and the distribution of rights worldwide and its impact on borders and naturalisations. link.springer.com/article/10.100… @CEUDemInst