“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” @POTUS
All my life I have studied democratization and autocratization. My 1st field trip was to newly democratic Argentina. I then added autocracies to my portfolio: Cuba, Ven, etc. I think I can recognize the stages of transition to authoritarianism. Here are the boxes checked off.
It looks like there will be another long and tragic night in Ukraine. Russian bombers took off from Olenia airfield in Polar North. Now it will take them 3-4 hours to reach Caspian Sea from where they will launch missiles. Their drones are already over Ukraine. Keep safe everyone
This is the diary of 🇺🇦writer Vakulenko. His body was found in a massive grave in Izym in 2022. This dairy was found by 🇺🇦writer Victoria Amelina. She died after the shelling of Kramatorsk in 2023.The Kharkiv factory that printed this book was destroyed by Russian shelling today
Colombian novelist @hectorabadf wrote a very moving essay about Viktoria Amelina, Ukrainian writer who was murdered by a Russian missile strike in Kramatorsk.
"In the last year, Victoria had moved away from fiction and devoted herself to researching and closely documenting the war crimes committed by the aggressors. There is one war crime that she will not be able to document personally: the one committed against her. I am going to dedicate the next few months to writing about this heinous crime, to recounting it thoroughly and in detail, beyond Russian propaganda and lies." he writes.
Read the essay here (in English): https://t.co/v4ZIjlCTPN
@SalihTorgeir Å sette likhetstegn mellom motstand mot russisk aggresjon i vår tid, med nazistisk forståelse av «kamp mot bolsjevismen», er å videreformidle den russiske falske fortellingen om at det «egentlig» sloss mot nazisme i Ukraina.
Samanta Schweblin won the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature for “Seven Empty Houses,” translated by Megan McDowell. “This is Schweblin at her sharpest and most ferocious,” our reviewer wrote of the book. Read our full review here. https://t.co/8zOk2V3GyW
The defender of Ukraine played the Ukrainian national anthem right after the battle.
This is Roman Pochep - the director of music school defending Ukraine now. After the battle he found a violin among the things stolen by Russians and couldn't help but started playing👇
The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine reminds the russian navy that the Black Sea straits are closed for entry only. The part of your fleet that remains afloat still has a way out.
25/31 One shot from Javelin costs $230,000. For the same money we would get 200 million ad views in different formats and provide at least 300,000 link clicks or at least 8 million views on a video with the truth about what is happening in Ukraine.
Any LBM not minted by 24th January // 00:00 UTC will be burned by shutting down the mint and relinquishing the contract.
Anyone who has minted a LBM, or mints one before 24th January // 00:00 UTC will be able to have a physical print of their LBM signed by Bjarne Melgaard.