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