Juliane Fürst

He is wrong on so many levels, including the one that Putin will like him for these word.

My Kyiv this night and early morning 💔 Photo 1 : Suspilne Novyny , Getty images , photo 2 : andrii_khodkov /instagram

Be beware of old men running out of time and options.

This much for academia being somehow above or outside the war: this is the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, and these are our colleagues, engaged in the same work we do. This is also late punishment for the instrumental role the Academy played in the late 1980s in the struggle for independence.

When discussing historical memory and Stolpersteine in Heidenau, it's worth remembering what happened there last time Nazis seized complete control of the town gedenkplaetze.info/biografien/p...

In Oleschky, im Süden der Ukraine, entwickelt sich eine humanitäre Katastrophe. Eine junge Frau, die noch in der Stadt ist, schreibt der ARD in einer SMS: „Ich esse nur einmal, am Abend. Fladenbrot mit gesalzener Tomate, dazu Tee.“ Wichtiger Beitrag von Florian Kellermann.

Some 6,000 people — 200 of them children — are right now starving to death in a humanitarian catastrophe orchestrated by Vladimir Putin's Russia.

I hope Witkoff and Kushner see the sheer beauty of Kyiv, its delicacy and softness and layers of history. It might give it a face when they read about the next missile attack. But they are property developers, so I should not hope too strongly.

Happy 35th Independence Day, Ukraine.

Sun eclipse in Bavaria. Always a good excuse to get the Alphorn out.

I remember standing in those late-Soviet lines as a kid. The Public Aesthetics of the line are terrible. And the Gas Line is the opposite of Kuran's preference falsification: a public assembly of everyone privately doubting the government’s capacity to provide basic necessities.

Pretty good analysis of British academia’s malaise which made me leave (plus Brexit). The unnecessary destruction of a system that functioned well through the cult of management. My condolences to my colleagues in Exeter. open.substack.com/pub/johnheat...

Dieses Titelblatt wird durch Dutzende von Händen gegangen sein und keiner hat sich erinnert, dass es so was wie die Sowjetunion gab, die nicht mit Russland identisch war. Erstaunlich.

One of the casualties of the US -Israeli attack on Iran is the memory of the tens of thousands of protesters killed by the Iranian regime just a few weeks before. Trump has allowed brutal bullies to be recast as victims, probably pushing the chance of political change in Iran back by decades.

It is not surprising Russia targeted the Chornobyl Museum in Kyiv. I spent hours in their exhibition a few years ago and left with an overwhelming sense of doom caused by systemic failure, yet mitigated by the actions of conscientious individuals. Chornobyl is the anti-story to imperial grandeur.

Wie mein gestriger Tag in Kyjiw so verlief. Ein längerer persönlicher Text von mir zum massiven russischen Luftangriff und auch zu den bemerkenswerten Momenten danach, die trotz allem aufmuntern. www.n-tv.de/politik/Ich-...

Die Ukraine hat einen der massivsten russischen Luftangriffe durchlebt. Hunderte Drohnen, Dutzende Raketen, Tote, Verletzte, heftige Zerstörung. Druckwellen haben auch das ARD-Studio Kyjiw erreicht. Unser Team ist zum Glück unverletzt. Die Statik des Gebäudes muss geprüft werden.

Yes. And the reverse is also true.

Finally a collaboration worth its name. Leave it to women to find a common, anti-imperialist language. I suspect that this will remain the highlight of this year‘s biennale. kyivindependent.com/pussy-riot-f...

I am in awe of this very British linguistic construction: a subjective qualifier preceding a verb embodying uncertainty. An amazing feat of hedging your words.

I have walked this street many times. As have millions of Russian tourists. But the times when shock still had value have probably passed a long time ago. Oh beautiful Lviv. My heart breaks for you.

The historic Bernardine Monastery in Lviv, part of a UNESCO World Heritage site, is on fire after a russian drone attack. 🎥 Xenia Gerke on Facebook

Bei all dem Furchtbaren um uns herum droht das Leiden in der Ukraine unterzugehen. @arturweigandt.bsky.social kämpft nach wie vor für die Menschen dort. Wir können ihm helfen.

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We truly live in an age that proves that destruction is much easier than construction, that creating negativity is much easier than positive affirmation, and that no man is too stupid or too evil to wreck things for all. And I have several candidates in mind here.

„Honestly, I am convinced that real performance in graduate school wasn’t understanding these men. The real performance was pretending you did.“ Amen. open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...

Babies running academia.

Display of items confiscated at Tbilisi airport. And I was worried about the pickled cabbage in my hand luggage.

Rustaveli Avenue now, on day 465 of daily, uninterrupted, nationwide protests in Georgia.

Multi-layered relationships to Russia in Tblisi.

Ukraine still stands. And Vienna still stands with Ukraine. Including its large Iranian exile community which came out in force this year. The pain that hung over the square and everyone on it was palpable. One could almost touch it.

It turns out that talking about Russia's corrosive influence on the West and talking about Epstein isn't either or.

In Kyjiw ist nun eine Holocaustüberlebende erfroren, wie die @novayagazeta.bsky.social berichtet. Sie lebte zurückgezogen in Podil. Ihren Namen hatte sie im Waisenhaus erhalten, wo man sie abgegeben hatte, als ihre Eltern in Babyn Jar erschossen worden waren: Bezfamilnaja („Ohne Nachnamen“). Sie 1/2

In der morgigen @diezeit.bsky.social findet sich auf der Seite 1 ein Leitartikel meiner Kollegin @oliviakortas.bsky.social , die in Kyjiw lebt, der so wahr ist und beklemmend und bestürzend, dass ich ihn jeder und jedem ans Herz legen möchte. Hier der erste Absatz:

The problem is who truly believes that a Trumpian USA will honour any security guarantees? And who thinks that Russia will be an honest deal maker?

The massacre of Iranian protesters reminds of Tiananmen Square - an event that is still shrouded in the darkness of deadly secrecy. The Chinese regime bought itself out of the memory of mass murder by making China rich and imposing silence. Hard to see what Khameini can offer in order to forget.