decolonizerussia

Knowledge network across Eastern Europe, Caucuses, Central Asia, Baltics, and indigenous people of Siberia oppressed by Russian colonialism

[Sergej Sumlenny, LL.M @sumlenny]

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.

[Priya Satia @PriyaSatia]

13/n The entry to this side of the gallery could be the cover of Said’s Orientalism: “The Lure of Asia,” accompanied by twangy exotic-erotic music (always in minor keys in such settings).

[Yuliia Kishchuk🍉🌻 @yuliyakischuk]

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

[Azamat Junisbai 🇰🇿🇺🇦 @azamatistan]

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.
https://t.co/6IYozTnQOD

[Yuliia Kishchuk🍉🌻 @yuliyakischuk]

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

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

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 companies and components
- This war is fueled by corporate greed
- Politicians (G7) don't have the willpower to stop Russian energy exports or component imports because they don't want to "disrupt the markets"
- Many companies (for example Microsoft) are returning to "business as usual" in Russia since this has no negative effects anymore
- Ukrainians hitting Russian oil refineries is an effective mechanism of weakening the Kremlin

[decolonizerussia @decolonizerf]

banality of evil

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Russian "Z-bloggers" post this video. Reportedly, it is a Russian Grad MLRS attacking Kharkiv region right from the road in Russian Belgorod region. Civilian cars wait patiently for them to finish.

[Olga Burlyuk @OBurlyuk]

The article is published #OpenAccess with @CSP_journal - get your free copy here:
https://t.co/dxkN0wq2mU 2/2

@AAUS_says @ASN_Org @CEE_Feminisms @ceeisa_net @europeanisa @HURI_Harvard @UvA_AISSR @Politics_UvA @aces_for @ATHENA_JMC @ECPR @UACES

[Giorgi Revishvili @revishvilig]

Mood in Tbilisi 🇬🇪

[Kavita Krishnan @kavita_krishnan]

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.”

[Kavita Krishnan @kavita_krishnan]

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.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

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.
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[dattebayo💙💛💜 @dattebayo_bane]

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.

[south/south movement 🍉 @SouthSouthMvmt]

⚡️Call for Papers ⚡️

COLONIALISM, CONFLICT & COMMEMORATION

Oxford Transnational & Global History
Annual Graduate Conference

Many thanks to @OxfordTGHS for organising!

🔗https://t.co/lRdfh3WbAs

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

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 entire small but proud nation that wanted freedom.
This is how peace talks with Russia always end. That is why Ukraine does not want them until they leave our land. That's why we're asking for guns.
By the way, the 1st Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev was killed by a Russian rocket during telephone conversations on April 21, 1996. They calculated his whereabouts and killed him, pretending to negotiate. And in 1995, he said in an interview: "Russia will eventually face Ukraine. Russia will fall when the sun of Ukrainian freedom rises." He knew that 28 years ago.

[decolonizerussia @decolonizerf]

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[Terrell Jermaine Starr @terrelljstarr]

This is very true. Many in the progressive left have very powerful critiques of Western imperialism but have little to say about Russian imperialism. And when Ukrainians do exercise agency to fight successfully for their liberation, the far left don't see it as a win against imperialism.

They think their victory would only come from a Western patron. The Left often challenges people not to view the Global South with a top down mind set, but have no issue doing it with Ukraine.

[Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews]

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

[Branislav Slantchev @slantchev]

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-).

[maksym eristavi. @maksymeristavi]

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 🫠

[Terrell Jermaine Starr @terrelljstarr]

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.