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this is the most important thing in my life i’ve done so far. let me share with you all you need to know about the “Russian Colonialism 101” illustrated guidebook. 🪆🪓 order at: maksymeristavi.com

Peace keeps getting dismissed as naive, a luxurious lack of moral discernment. My new essay argues the opposite: it demands far more of us than facile cheering for destruction. 1/ monikabielskyte.substack.com/p/peace-is-n...

One of the best books you can read to see wtf is wrong with russia. (You will still not understand it, but you recognise the pattern.) i highly recommend reading it.

what do you tell a person who says occupation is just living under a different flag? endrussia.today/p/russian-oc...

new 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 endrussia.today/p/russian-la...

North 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 endrussia.today/p/north-asia...

"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."

an 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 endrussia.today/p/welcome-to...

there 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 www.index-ukraine.org/en/news/vidk...

Georgiy 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 endrussia.today/p/control-a-...

🇺🇦🇺🇸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. militarnyi.com/en/news/usa-...

russian 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 endrussia.today/p/eristavi-d...

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great russian culture.

🚨 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.

how tolstoy helped russia steal crimea. and five other things the empire tried to bury, including its own colonial garbage in Alaska, but couldn’t endrussia.today/p/tolstoy-he...

there'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 endrussia.today/p/putins-bra...

i know it looks grim, but this is what powers my hope: i have just closed my leg of the fundraiser for a life-saving pickup truck for Ukrainian heroes. in less than a week. 105% of the goal. endlessly thankful to you all for ensuring that no Ukrainian hero feels like they walk alone 🪆🪓

russian wars aren’t logical strategy — they’re symptoms. learning more about centuries of russian warfare reveals an imperial society trapped in collective insecurity. my latest brief with this week’s must-reads: endrussia.today/p/russia-mas...

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the smile i get when thinking how much a frontline truck saves lives and how many invaders it helps to delete. send congrats to Ukraine on her 35th Independence Day: top up my leg of the fundraiser for a pickup truck that will go to the 160th Separate Mechanised Brigade

as we mark an anniversarry of another russian imperial invasion, here’s the Сzech warning we should all hear: the values and playbooks of russian empire never changed — only its name did. endrussia.today/p/russians-g...

As @maksymeristavi.com will tell you, they strike book markets because they are trying to destroy Ukrainian culture, because this is a colonial war.

This will be yet another terrible experience for residents of Crimea😔 If only this khan had been more rigorous🤐 Hope you had a calm day, a tasty ☕️ and found new books 📚 I recommend a book by @maksymeristavi.com to understand the ru colonisation playbook. istpublishing.org/en/russian-c...

⚡ Sanctioned Nvidia AI tech was found inside Russia's new stealth missile. united24media.com/defense-tech...

🔴 Russian missiles destroyed a major shopping center in Zaporizhzhia, killing one person and injuring nine.

Compulsory reading!

a Ukrainian currency printed in Yiddish. a Jewish poet who chose a banned Ukrainian. Lesia Ukrainka writing Babylonian captivity as russian occupation. the centuries of Ukrainian-Jewish entanglement that the imperial “Ukrainians are Nazis” trope was designed to erase endrussia.today/p/ukrainians...

🔴UPD: Russian missile attack killed 15 people and injured 37 across Kyiv and the surrounding region. Exploiting a lack of air defense interceptors, Russia continues to terrorize the city, leaving civilians in grave danger with almost no time to reach shelter.

great russian culture.

north koreans, powered by chinese, shooting missiles at European cities yet there are still some of you telling me calling it WW3 is too dramatic

"Attached to the drone was a mass,which has been identified as explosive material,containing a detonator." The Germans fail to understand that if they continue to ignore the fact that the russians are at war with them,the russians will continue to have the upper hand. This must change immediately!

😠 Russia’s overnight ballistic missile attack on Kyiv on August 5 reportedly included Iskander-M missiles carrying cluster warheads.

3/3 Highly recommended, order here or perhaps in your favourite bookstore. I think at least a german translation is also available. istpublishing.org/en/russian-c...

Just got a book from Ukraine! See also publisher in thread below 👇 and another very recommended book by @maksymeristavi.com (see publisher below, available also in other languages afaik)👇👇

from 19th-century bans to burning 1.5 million Ukrainian books in the last month alone, russian warfare recognises the power of a Ukrainian book better than most people abroad learn more in my latest brief: endrussia.today/p/russia-bur...

this week's reads in my latest brief attack the Kremlin's myth that russia has never been imperial or colonial. endrussia.today/p/russia-was...

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the history i studied is clear on this: the only thing that ever changes russia is losing the wars it started. endrussia.today/p/russia-onl...

🇺🇦 Day 3 of protests in Kyiv: Franka Square is already full of people, even if the protest begins only at 8pm. Three main demands from the people to Volodymyr Zelensky: *Fedorov back, as MinDef *Syrskyi out *Parliament back (lots of cardboards ask if soldiers took might get a holiday)