Very excited to make my writing debut in Meduza! In my essay, I look at how Vlasov is remembered in today’s Russia and how the war is changing that

Thank you 🙏 to Kevin Rothrock for the invitation and editing

In this 90-minute discussion, Professor S Kotkin traces Russian foreign policy from before WWI, through Lenin and Stalin and up to Putin. A study in patterns.

Monterey Conversations: Russian Foreign Policy, Past and Present | Kotki... youtu.be/3RGWI7kva8w via YouTube

Really excited to share a new fundraising project with The Kharkiv and Przemyśl Project featuring graphic tees of an anti-war mural in Warsaw, Poland. 100% profits go directly to the charity supporting refugees. Purchase from my site, jbfotografiya.com, or check out their website to donate!

A panel of 'eminent' economists produced a report-cum-recommendations on Ukraine's economy, which Adam Tooze read so we don't have to. It's a doozy. Stupid (like this quote) is one thing, vicious is another. This has both. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-16…

A young Londoner had a lockdown party in December 2020, and got a £12,000 Covid fine

He's paying it off at a rate of £50-a- month, over the course of 20 years.

In PM terms, that's almost seven Boris Johnsons and 165 Liz Truss's.

The shadow of Covid laws can be very long indeed

Russia Today’s anchor in full Radio Mille Collines genocide mode: Ukrainian children saying Ukraine is occupied by Russia? Need to throw them into a fast river and drown them alive. Or, even better, put them into wooden houses, nail the doors and burn them alive.

Sign on a railway station in 🇷🇺 that says: 'One people, one history, one country'. 🇷🇺 actually has an official internal ideology of building a single Russian state nation, not to be confused with the Russian nation in ethnic terms.

Lenin. He was such a snark.

Ukrainians living with the reality of Russian bombing

Incredible thread, agree with every tweet

But it's a lot easier to point the finger at Russia then address Western politicians and their media allies embracing conspiracy theorists and fringe movements, or the more complex issues of positively engaging communities to address the issues that concern them.

Apart from everything else, if you're going to ingratiate yourself with one of the thugs running Russia, why would you pick the most pathetic one?

This is like trying to get in good with the UK government by sending a winky face emoji to Matt Hancock.

Parents and teachers are pushing back against new patriotic lessons introduced by the Russian government. Strategies to shield the children from wartime propaganda are various.
russiapost.info/society/digest…

#Russia #Propaganda

I miss precedented crises and General Elections

Liz Truss gone. The Conservatives are making a mockery of the U.K. Time for a #Generalelectionnow

Everything is going to plan, ministers of state and chief whips are just regrouping, as a gesture of good will to the opposition.