After the Russian attack on Lviv, only the man in this photo remained alive - his wife Evgenia and their three daughters Yaryna, Darina, and Emilia were killed in their own home 💔 #LetUkraineStrikeBack

While the links between Russia and the far-right riots in the UK remain hypothetical, the connection between a number of Russian stakeholders and Tommy Robinson (real name: Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) is well established. Let me review them in this thread. 1/17

I love how "decolonizing Russia" maps are both ridiculously out of touch AND absurdly pedantic in a very Russian way ("decolonizing" Russia neatly along the arbitrary and sometimes still disputed borders of "federal subjects," mostly populated by >80% ethnic Russians? really?)

A conclusion my Russian Studies 101 students came to in their first class yesterday. Without any prompting, btw.

Actually it is the duty of all academics to speak out in their area of expertise about the dangers of the glib oversimplifications peddled on this platform. The people who will pay the price for ill-informed fantasies about 'decolonising Russia' live a long way from Kyiv.

In today’s #vatniksoup, I’ll discuss the Kremlin’s funding of Tennessee-based media company TENET Media. TENET Media is best-known for their promotion of Russian narratives and for strong support for Donald Trump in the upcoming 2024 US elections. 1/20

Politico: "Zelenskyy suffers huge backlash as reshuffle triggers power-grab accusations. A parliamentary majority and martial law mean the Ukrainian president has the right to assemble his government as he sees fit, but the opposition is crying foul." Every statement is

The photo shows the offices of the DanChurchAid Norwegian Church Aid humanitarian missions headquarters in Kyiv, which were damaged by shrapnel from ballistic and cruise missiles. Several humanitarian vehicles were destroyed, part of one building was destroyed and another was heavily

An important thread by one of the leading experts on Russia, who warned against Putin’s policies long before such a position became popular. Attacking scholars like Robert Horvath is just bizarre

When RT was allegedly banned in the EU in 2022, its editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said they’d start using “urban guerrilla” methods. She meant that it was easy for the West to ban RT and Sputnik and other Russian media (as foreign influence), but Western nations would not

Only film can capture the blank-eyed soullessness of the Russian president and the ineffable sense of wrongness he carries with him; only film can capture the warmth, charm and humanity radiating from his Ukrainian counterpart, brimful of soul theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/a…

Fixed it for ya.

Worth listening. Among other things, Khan said he had been against opening Ukraine investigation before 2022.