@sianushka
Writer | Senior Investigative Reporter at openDemocracy | Bylines in i; Observer; Guardian; The Times | BWLF | Book: Bodies Under Siege, Verso | Got a story? Email sian.norris(at)opendemocracy.net
The organisation I met in Ukraine two weeks ago have suffered a Russian attack - Russian terrorists attacking miners and workers in Pavlohrad
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🔴 A Russian drone hit a civilian enterprise in Kharkiv.
Two people were killed and seven were injured, according to the local authorities.
Isn’t it great!!
These f**king people
The Trump administration's Russia First approach should also make those UK political and media figures pushing for unquestioning, automatic alignment with whatever the Trump White House does, think twice if they have a concern for UK security.
Well I made a small contribution to @snellarthur.bsky.social
Seems miserly, but there's so much good stuff around I can't afford to pay everyone!
His "Behind the lines" podcasts are always a fabulous sideways look at important news away from the clickbait headlines.
Listen & cough up some $$!!
Honoured that my book Bodies Under Siege has been generously reviewed in Krytika, a leading Ukrainian journal
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Some good news in these dark days
UKRAINE HAS DRIVEN 12km INTO RUSSIAN LINES AMD REGAINED 400KM IN THE SOUTH EAST
The ISW has finally confirmed its assessment that Ukraine - which has seemingly stopped its advance for now, presumably to consolidate its gains, retook 400kmsq and penetrated 12km
into Russian held territory on the
So beautiful
Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.
(Published July 2025)
Such good reporting from @sarahrainsfordbbc.bsky.social 👇
Heartbreaking
WHY! What is the point of doing this. It’s just cruel.
EXCL: Home Office rejected appeal from foreign secretary Yvette Cooper that would have protected outstanding students in some of the world’s most dangerous countries from changes to UK’s immigration system.
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The Taliban denies women higher education and now the uk is telling Afghan women they can’t access higher education here. I honestly can’t understand this level of performative cruelty!
I've written for the @uniofbathipr.bsky.social blog about why de-alignment and party system breakdown poses challenges for PR as well as FPTP, and why a French-style two-round electoral system might therefore now be optimal for the UK
In Donetsk region 4 people were killed and another 20 injured in a Russian airstrike on central Sloviansk‼️
The same Donetsk region that Russia wants us to surrender without a fight. Because our people are surely eager to join a state that bombs them and kills their neighbors (not)
Moving from the eco-anxiety of #dirtybusiness to eco-empathy to eco-ACTION. What might we learn from rivers about community, resilience and regeneration? Follow our project and reach out to get involved!
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"We work to gather coal"
First of three articles about life in the Donbas region, starting with the experiences of miners who are on the second frontline of Russia's war with Ukraine.
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❗️🇺🇦 Almost the entire territory of the Dnipropetrovsk region has been liberated. It remains to complete three small areas and clear two more, — the head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff, Major General Komarenko.
When I had a summer holiday job in a shoe shop, all the teenage boys would gruffly say “I’m size 12” and their mums would laugh and shout “he’s an 8!”
As much of a must read as your timeline is telling you it is
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The Iranian girls’ school was hit by a US tomahawk cruise missile. NPR has confirmed the footage.
What children in Kryvyi Rih dream about… peaceful skies, to go to school every day, peace.
Oh he’s obsessed with “exposing” Giuffre
Endless horror. They’re killing children.
🔴 BREAKING: Ukraine hammered Russian missile plants and drone factories in a massive wave of long-range strikes.
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