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.

• Twitter: @kamilkazani

• Thread of threads

• Threads

• Wilson Center

• Kazan Tatar

Threads

2022

• Kamil Galeev, “Why Russia will lose this war?”, February 27, 2022 (thread) (pdf)

• Kamil Galeev, “Why Russia can’t win against the West”, March 19, 2022 (thread) (pdf)

• Kamil Galeev, “War of memes: why Z-war won’t end with peace Some Western analysts unfamiliar with Eastern European cultural context perceive Z-war as an accident. They presume that Russian invasion results from some sort of “misunderstanding” or mistake which can be resolved via negotiations🧵”, April 18, 2022 (thread) (pdf)

• Kamil Galeev, “Why didn’t China attack Taiwan? (a hypothesis)”, May 22, 2022 (thread) (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”, July 13, 2022 (thread) (pdf)

• Kamil Galeev, “Let’s discuss what’s happening in Russia. To put it simply, it’s going full fascist.”, March 6, 2022 (thread) (pdf)

• Kamil Galeev, “Die Fürstenstadt”, July 27, 2022 (thread) (pdf) (Fürstenstadt)

• Kamil Galeev, “Russian regional news can be quite informative: ‘There’s now a shortage of places on Nizhny Tagil graveyards’”, July 31, 2022 (thread) (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🧵”, August 7, 2022 (thread) (pdf) (Amnesty International)

• 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”, August 9, 2022 (thread) (pdf)

• 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” (thread) (pdf), August 10, 2022

• 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”, August 10, 22 [1] (pdf)

• Kamil Galeev, “Yes, but that is very gentle mode of war from the Russian perspective.”, August 18, 2022 [2] (pdf)

• Kamil Galeev, “The Mastermind Dugin theory is interesting for two reasons”, August 21, 2022 (thread) (pdf) (Aleksandr Dugin)

• Kamil Galeev, “On Darya Dugina’s death” [3] (pdf), 2022-08-22 (Darya Dugina, Aleksandr Dugin) [4] [5]

• Kamil Galeev, “Wagner mercenary group fighting colonial wars for Russia” (thread) (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 (John J. Mearsheimer)

• Kamil Galeev, “National Divorce: Within the next year Russia will spiral into a deep political crisis. There is a nonzero chance that it may scale up existing separatist tendencies leading to the breakup of the empire. In this thread I will outline a model of how this process could look like🧵”, December 8, 2022 (thread) (pdf)

• Kamil Galeev, “What you should know about Alexei Navalny?”, January 5, 2023 (thread) (pdf) (Alexei Navalny)

• Kamil Galeev, “Great question. Let’s open the original video.” (thread) (pdf), January 6, 2023 (Alexei Navalny)

• Kamil Galeev, “This is correct. When forming your opinion about @navalny movement, consume as much of their *external* propaganda specifically directed at foreign audience (=you) as you can. Do not look at their *internal* propaganda though. It was not meant for you!”, January 18, 2023 (thread) (pdf) (Alexei Navalny)

• Kamil Galeev, “Moscow liberal’s logic”, January 18, 2023 (thread) (pdf) (Chechnya, Alexei Navalny)

• Kamil Galeev, “Not quite. Mau put his signature under a letter in support of this war. Maybe hesitantly, but he still did it. Regarding Alexei Navalny, I am honestly impressed by how much effort international media invest into whitewashing him and his clique”, January 18, 2023 (thread) (pdf) (russian invasion of Ukraine, Alexei Navalny)

• Kamil Galeev, “The biggest myth about Navalny’s sucession is: Navalny’s succession -> the war stops”, January 22, 2023 (thread) (pdf) (russian invasion of Ukraine, Alexei Navalny)

• Kamil Galeev, “Regarding the video with a castration of a Ukrainian POW, comments from the Russian ДШРГ Русич may give some context to the story”, July 29, 2022 (thread) (pdf) (Mikhail Khodorkovsky)

• Kamil Galeev, “Imperial Reboot”, April 1, 2022 (thread) (pdf)

2023

• Kamil Galeev, Astrologers declared a new round of donations for the Ukrainian troops. I would be grateful, if you have a chance to contribute 🧵 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1624452772174102528.html February 11, 2023

• Kamil Galeev, “This remark may sound as an exaggeration but I find it astute. Russia is more personalist than the (post-Stalin) USSR. It is also in many respects more centralised. For example, a separate Siloviki hierarchy unanswerable to the regional authorities is the post-Soviet innovation”, February 16, 2023 (thread) (pdf)
  • Commenting on: “I would never have imagined that I would miss the Politburo,” said Rene Nyberg, the former Finnish ambassador to Moscow. “There is no political organization in Russia that has the power to hold the president and commander in chief accountable.”
    • Fiona Hill and Angela Stent, “The Kremlin’s Grand Delusions - What the War in Ukraine Has Revealed About Putin’s Regime”, February 15, 2023

• Kamil Galeev, “The biggest Western delusion about the regimes like Russian may be that they can be successfully challenged by some sort of “opposition”.”, February 17, 2023 (thread) (pdf)

https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1632411394678161410 Mar 5, 2023 Regarding Darya Dugina, I think that foreign observers tend to wildly exaggerate significance of ideological alignment (like are you pro/against Putin). That is 99% rhetorics and can be changed overnight

But they just as wildly underrate the significance of class and status Darya Dugina

Tweets

• Kamil Galeev, “Words cannot describe how low in dominance hierarchy the Russian army is. To get some idea, watch this video from a Russian official TV channel. An officer asks for a minute of silence for “our special operation boys dying there” and see what happens. Army has no respect at all”, March 12, 2022