Kamil Galeev

Kamil Galeev is an independent researcher and a journalist from Moscow, residing in Washington DC. His main focus of interest is the identity politics in post-Soviet Russia, the ethnification of Russian nationalism and the crackdown on the ethnic republics. Galeev completed a Master’s in Economics and Management at Peking University China and then an MLitt in History at St Andrews, the UK. He is an activist of political opposition, briefly incarcerated for participation in the 2020 protests.

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Threads

• Kamil Galeev, “Why Russia can’t win against the West” [1] (PDF)

• Kamil Galeev, “Why didn’t China attack Taiwan? (a hypothesis)” [2] (PDF)

• Kamil Galeev, “Daily reminder that Putin’s army of invasion was trained on the Rheinmetall-built training centre Mulino. In 2014 they ‘left’ and construction was finished by ‘Гарнизон’ company, probably a proxy. 100% of its imports came from Germany, last Rheinmetall shipments coming in 2019” [3] (PDF)

• Kamil Galeev, “Let’s discuss what’s happening in Russia. To put it simply, it’s going full fascist.” [4] (PDF)

• Kamil Galeev, “Die Fürstenstadt” [5] (PDF) (Fürstenstadt)

• Kamil Galeev, “Russian regional news can be quite informative: ‘There’s now a shortage of places on Nizhny Tagil graveyards’” [6] (PDF)

• Kamil Galeev, “Many see NGOs as a bunch of ultra-privileged Westerners focused on satisfying their ego without any regard for the cost they inflict on the people they’re supposed to “help”. This view is unfair. It’s too generalising. But the @amnesty report is playing to the worst stereotypes🧵” [7] (PDF), 2022-08-07

• Kamil Galeev, “Well, Russia already did mass mobilisation in Donbass. It is the Ukrainian citizens that are the main Russian cannon fodder. I have no idea why this is not discussed more often [8] (PDF), 2022-08-09

• Kamil Galeev, “Great statistics, awful analysis. The fact that the majority of Russians will support either escalation or peace shows that they *do* have a clue. And the clue is - submission to the supreme power in whatever. The culture of obedience in Russia is unimaginable to a Westerner [9] (PDF), 2022-08-10

• Kamil Galeev, “Tourism continues = Nobody in the West really cares about what’s happening and all the “outrage” about the war is just BS rhetorics [10] (PDF), 2022-08-10

• Kamil Galeev, “Yes, but that is very gentle mode of war from the Russian perspective.” [11] (PDF), 2022-08-18

• Kamil Galeev, “The Mastermind Dugin theory is interesting for two reasons” [12] (PDF), 2022-08-21

• Kamil Galeev, “On Darya Dugina’s death” [13] (PDF), 2022-08-22 (Darya Dugina)

https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1561753746870337539 (Darya Dugina, Alexander Dugin)

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1562438956570284033.html

• Kamil Galeev, “Wagner mercenary group fighting colonial wars for Russia

(thread) (https://liberpedia.net/threads/Kamil-Galeev-Wagner.pdf pdf), 2022-11-13

• Kamil Galeev, “The Poverty of Realism This interview illustrates some key fallacies, shortcomings and outright intellectual dishonesty associated with Mearsheimer’s realist approach.” (thread)(PDF), 2022-11-18