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#RussianColonialism storyteller-in-chief. author of award-winning “Russian Colonialism 101”🪆🪓
@maksymeristavi.comnew research from a former colony of russia suggests a greeting in russian doubles the odds someone justifies the russian invasion of Ukraine. Moscow’s return on three centuries of russification, in this week’s russian colonialism 101 reading list - and more
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@maksymeristavi.comgrab a ticket here, the space is very special but quite small
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@maksymeristavi.comif you are in Prague next week, we have a very special russian colonialism evening at the legendary Laichter House: my lecture and a performance by Crimean Tatar artist Aziza Eskender 🪆🪓
@maksymeristavi.comNorth Asia remains the largest colonised space on this planet - yet, rarely talked about. it gives us a radically different perspective on the russian empire, its operating system, and the stories it tried to erase
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@kristiankiehling.bsky.socialReposted by @maksymeristavi.com"Europe must prepare for larger-scale and more professional sabotage operations that Russia could activate during a transition to a wider conventional war beyond Ukraine – the so-called “special period” – aimed at disabling critical infrastructure and disrupting civil administration in rear areas."
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@maksymeristavi.coman interview with one of the most important anti-colonial voices of my generation about the book i have been waiting for the most this year. open for everyone
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@maksymeristavi.comthere are lots of great literary residencies out there. and there's this one: in wartime Ukraine, named after the finest voice of my generation. the kind of residency you'll be writing in your books about and mentioning for the rest of your life
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@maksymeristavi.comGeorgiy Gongadze: the anti-colonial legacy of a murdered Ukrainian reporter that shaped me into who i'm today and how his work from 25 years ago explains threats to our democracies more than you’d expect
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@militarnyi.comReposted by @maksymeristavi.com🇺🇦🇺🇸The United States has approved a potential sale to Ukraine of missiles, radars, and other equipment to strengthen its air defense, with a total value of up to $2.68 billion.
@maksymeristavi.comrussian books in my library. should I burn them, throw them in the garbage, or do something else? one of my favourite and most personal essays i have ever written, from the 2023 archive
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@quaxquax.bsky.socialReposted by @maksymeristavi.comHow about the fact that Putin never moderated his maximalist demands? After four years and countless talks with him this should be bloody obvious.
@catmother1967.bsky.socialReposted by @maksymeristavi.comNo notes 👇🏻
@maksymeristavi.comgreat russian culture.
@united24media.comReposted by @maksymeristavi.com🚨 BREAKING: Russian drone targeted a passenger train on the border with Poland. "Russian barbarians are at your gate, dear partners. Act now: throw the full weight of your sanctions at Putin’s aggressive regime," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Sybiha wrote in response.
@maksymeristavi.comhow tolstoy helped russia steal crimea. and five other things the empire tried to bury, including its own colonial garbage in Alaska, but couldn’t
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@maksymeristavi.comthere's a very specific place where true leverage over imperial russia sits. psychoanalysing Putin or running to the Kremlin for an audience with him is not it. learn more in my latest russian colonialism 101 brief
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@maksymeristavi.com@maksymeristavi.comwe are witnessing one of the most embarrassing and catastrophic failures of American diplomacy in history — all triggered by complete inability to read imperial russia.
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