No, this photo is not Ukraine. This Is Chechnya. In 1999, the capital Grozny was destroyed by the Russians. But 3 years earlier, Russia signed a peace treaty with the Chechens. They had lost the war and needed a pause. Only to go back and kill up to 300,000 Chechens, 25% of the

My reminder that pro-Palestine folks have as much to learn about Ukrainians as Ukrainians have to learn about them. I see plenty of ignorant shit about Ukraine from pro-Palestinian folks and it’s extremely unproductive and reeks of propaganda.

Russia has waged wars of choice in 28 of 33 years of its existence since 1991: Georgia (91-93, 08), S. Ossetia (91-92), Abkhazia (92-93), Transnistria (92), Tajikistan (92-97), Chechnya (94-96, 99-09), Dagestan (99), Ukraine (14-), Syria (15-), Central African Republic (18-).

tolstoi presented himself as a believer in equality and freedom abroad, but at home he was a colonial landlord and a troubadour for russian settler colonialism. russian culture in nutshell 🫠

This is the subway Tucker should have visited, instead of gushing about Putin’s Potemkin village.

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⚡️Call for Papers ⚡️ COLONIALISM, CONFLICT & COMMEMORATION Oxford Transnational & Global History Annual Graduate Conference Many thanks to transnational & global history seminar for organising! 🔗oxfordtghs.com/conference

russians on Twitter discuss how easy it is to move into empty apartments in Mariupol. The formula is simple: first you kill Ukrainians living there and voila! only some bureaucratic procedures separate you from a rent-free apartment on the seashore. But yeah only putin is guilty.

In today's #vatniksoup, I'll talk about the state of generative AI (GAI) today, and how it will affect propaganda & disinformation in the near future.The development of GAI right now is so fast, that it's very difficult to keep track of what's going on,but here's the latest. 1/18

Alexandr Dugin to head the new scientific center of Russian State Uni for Humanities, named after Ivan Ilyin, ideologue of 🇷🇺 fascism, admirer of Hitler & Putin’s fave. Dugin will work on “revising educational paradigms.”

Leftists who say Russia, China are more democratic than western parliamentary democracies, ignore the fact Dugin the self-professed fascist is also a Senior Fellow at the China Institute, at China’s prestigious Fudan University.

Mood in Tbilisi 🇬🇪

The article is published #OpenAccess with CSP Journal - get your free copy here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 2/2 AAUS ASN CEE feminist research network CEEISA EISA HURI Harvard @UvA_AISSR UvA Political Science ACES - Amsterdam Centre for European Studies ATHENA Jean Monnet Chair European Consortium for Political Research UACES

banality of evil

Just left the session on sanctions at #LennartMeriConference. The takeaway message is this: - Western companies are assisting the Kremlin to produce missiles that are then used to bomb Ukrainian cities and civilians - There wouldn't be more advanced missiles without Western

Some wonderful human made the episode of @FireTheseTimes into a comics! How beautiful

Raising global awareness about Russia's long history as an unrepentant colonial power is essential. Lack of awareness breeds indifference. And global indifference is exactly what Moscow wishes for as it attempts to reestablish control over a former colony. youtube.com/watch?v=1QEuY6…

People who support both 🌻 and 🍉 are usually kind, nuanced, and empathic

A fact which many ignore: Kyiv was a capital city already in the 9th century at least, with Ukrainian trident being used as a coat of arms by Volodymyr the Great in the same century. This makes Ukrainians one of the oldest nations in Europe with the same capital and emblem.