Oksana Forostyna

A proud contributor to Visegrad Insight, Liberties, and The European Review of Books, Europe's Futures Fellow at the IWM 2022-2023, founder at TAO

[Michael Kimmage @mkimmage]

The latest "Letter from Kyiv," from @Forostyna, an essay that delves into recent protests, into the long history of protest in Ukraine and into the complicated, charged terrain of Ukrainian-Polish relations. From the @kennaninstitute Dispatches series.

https://t.co/rFSwvJqW0c

[Michael Kimmage @mkimmage]

A second "Letter from Kyiv," by @Forostyna, on everyday life in a city and country under constant attack, an homage to carrying on. "Being normal under absolutely abnormal circumstances is something more noble than greatness," Oksana Forostyna argues.
https://t.co/jW5fwvAGyg

[Michael Kimmage @mkimmage]

"In Kyiv, an invisible competition for the country’s future shape is percolating," writes @Forostyna in this "Letter from Kyiv," a new @kennaninstitute series on politics, culture and everyday life in Ukraine. This letter explores political themes.

https://t.co/xbyPlTXYZO

[Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics @readliberties]

The Ukrainian word Svoï is untranslatable -- it's also at the heart of contemporary Ukrainian culture.
@Forostyna
https://t.co/RWMIJRwsqS

[Oksana Forostyna @Forostyna]

@dennydov А це не воно? https://t.co/sYrfhr3Nyo

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Дуже радий, що є «Нариси таємної війни» українською. Дякую @forostyna!

[Oksana Forostyna @Forostyna]

@TimothyDSnyder @TimothyDSnyder Thank you, Timothy! That book in Ukrainian was on my bucket list, and I'm happy you gave me a chance to make it real!

[Wojciech Przybylski @wprzybylski]

Thank you, Ukrainians, for your resilience and courage – also in the name of the farmers who humiliate you in Europe! Accept our apologies for not resolving that internal conflict of ours early enough https://t.co/8v3a3INsKh
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[Wojciech Przybylski @wprzybylski]

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[Oksana Forostyna @Forostyna]

Translated, not originally written in English, i.e. that was speaking for two audiences at once: Postwar, Continued, by Oksana Forostyna https://t.co/YMsqbqXwEJ

[Oksana Forostyna @Forostyna]

My thoughts exactly.

[Yevhen Hlibovytsky 🇺🇦 @YHlibovytsky]

The NATO summit indecision will come at a price. While the war-extending effect is quite apparent, there will be another intoxicating consequence. This is the trigger for the arrival of the policy of ressentiment on the Ukrainian domestic political scene, affecting the EU as well

[Oksana Forostyna @Forostyna]

Over 20 countries, including formerly cautious nations [...] have signed written statements in support of Ukraine's membership aspirations. There is only one missing piece: Biden's support. With his leadership, a consensus is reached https://t.co/Q2VyjQXFbz

[Dmytro Kuleba @DmytroKuleba]

Infuriating to see some media report “Kyiv and Moscow accusing each other” of ruining the Kakhovka dam. It puts facts and propaganda on equal footing. Ukraine is facing a huge humanitarian and environmental crisis. Ignoring this fact means playing Russia’s “not all obvious” game.

[Yevhen Hlibovytsky 🇺🇦 @YHlibovytsky]

What has the world achieved by not stopping Russia in 2014? Or in 2008? The price Ukraine is paying now includes the cost of the cozy shortsightedness of the Western leadership in the past decades. NATO membership offer for Ukraine is the least that can be done now.

[Oksana Forostyna @Forostyna]

Now in front of the paywall: something my great colleagues inspired me to write when dubbed their magazine (which is many things) as "The European Review of Untranslatable Jokes".

[The European Review of Books @european_review]

Now un-paywalled: Oksana @Forostyna on untranslatable Ukrainian humor, from the parody of the Aeneid that founded modern Ukrainian literature in 1798, through the Soviet and post-Soviet popular culture that brought forth the country's current president. https://t.co/fkx0NlEPNg

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

"It’s worth noting that Germany has a formidable defence industry that has very profitably exported lethal equipment to some quite dubious regimes around the world. So why not send it to defend a European democracy against the new Hitler?"
https://t.co/mDigRmQKq0

[Oksana Forostyna @Forostyna]

@motytchak @anneapplebaum @sikorskiradek Of course, we have so much of them. When will you guys grow up?

[Oksana Forostyna @Forostyna]

@motytchak @DarkaHirna @Vhvskyy А тим часом в ФБ-бульбашці тривають намагання придумати універсальне правило, потім придумати, собі, ніби з ним усі погодилися, а потім роздмухувати ненависть до тих, хто воліє думати своєю головою і нести персональну відповідальність за свої дії.

[Oksana Forostyna @Forostyna]

@motytchak @DarkaHirna @Vhvskyy Я маю не дуже приємний недавній досвід, який переконує, що бездоганна італійськість ніяк не убезпечує від ворожості до України. Я заздрю людям, які думають, що росіяни є нашою єдиною проблемою. Але найголовніше: є різниця між "пропоную" і "ми вирішили, що тобі не можна".

[Oksana Forostyna @Forostyna]

@motytchak @DarkaHirna @Vhvskyy Під визначення "ворожий хитрозроблений фреймворк" може потрапити й іспанська газета, й італійська, і міжнародний майданчик, про існування якого "русофоби з піврічним стажем" навіть не здогадуються. Якщо боятися маніпуляцій, то не варто виходити за межі блога з надійним паролем.