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Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, an academic centre at the University of Cambridge. Advancing new approaches to teaching and researching Ukraine since 2008. www.CambridgeUkrainianStudies.org Posts by Rory Finnin

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Seher Asaf @seher-education.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
“I’ve been shocked over many years with the assumption that if one has studied Russia, they can easily understand Ukraine, when Ukraine is culturally and historically very different,” said Rory Finnin, who teaches Ukrainian Studies at Cambridge www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ukraini...
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Ukrainian studies in ‘crisis’ despite rising demand in Europe
Most universities still treat Ukraine as a marginal topic even as need for specialists with deep knowledge of the country rises
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
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Cambridge Ukrainian Studies @camukrainistyka.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
📢 CFP! Our partners at @notredame.bsky.social are hosting a major innovative conference in Ukrainian Studies in March 2027. Paper, panel, and exhibition proposals are being accepted until 1 September. Don't miss this special opportunity to showcase your research! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Cambridge Ukrainian Studies @camukrainistyka.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
📢 CFP! Our partners at @notredame.bsky.social are hosting a major innovative conference in Ukrainian Studies in March 2027. Paper, panel, and exhibition proposals are being accepted until 1 September. Don't miss this special opportunity to showcase your research! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A Republican official told The Atlantic that Raytheon and Lockheed Martin may fear Ukraine would improve Patriot interceptors and build them faster and cheaper. Neither company has confirmed the claim. euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/10/u...
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Cambridge Ukrainian Studies @camukrainistyka.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
To wage a war against rights and freedoms, the Kremlin banks on our collective silence. So please say the name and share the story of Volodymyr Ananyev, Russia's oldest Ukrainian political prisoner. Today is his 77th birthday.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It’s mind boggling how little European states are talking about the possible deployment of a powerful offensive and ballistic missile capable North Korean force to attack Ukraine. Europe is failing if this is shrugged off. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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Ukraine's Zelenskiy says up to 50,000 North Korean troops to be deployed in Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said up to 50,000 North Korean soldiers will be deployed in Russia to fight for Pyongyang's ally, while calling on South Korea to provide ​support for its a...
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 09/08/2026
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...
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the jewishness of being a Ukrainian.
The hundred-year-old russian lie we are still fighting.
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The New Voice of Ukraine @english.nv.ua · 05/08/2026
🛡️ President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine's partners have scaled back deliveries of anti-ballistic missiles, warning that interceptor shortages remain one of the country's biggest defense challenges
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Air defense missile deliveries have fallen threefold since 2025 – Zelenskyy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that deliveries of anti-ballistic air defense missiles from allies have fallen threefold compared with 2025, urging partners to accelerate supplies and exp...
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 02/08/2026
🔴 Russian prison guards are torturing Ukrainian journalist Iryna Danylovych with 12 hours of blasting noise every single day. Abducted in occupied Crimea and sentenced on sham charges, she was already left nearly deaf due to medical neglect. 1/2
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
🇺🇦 Deputy Commander of the Air Force Pavlo Elizarov has resigned. He noted that he decided to leave his post after the resignation of Defense Minister Fedorov. “I joined the Defense Forces in 2022 to win, not to engage in imitation of activities.”
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 15/07/2026
Britain’s retired fire trucks keep saving lives on Ukraine’s frontline.
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How Britain’s Retired Fire Trucks Keep Saving Lives on Ukraine’s Frontline
Discover how FIRE AID UK delivers retired British fire trucks to Ukraine, helping firefighters replace destroyed vehicles and respond to Russian attacks.
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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The 97-to-3 ratio of civilian deaths tells you everything. 3 on the Russian side vs 97 Ukrainians, knowingly and deliberately massacred by the aggressor’s army of war criminals. I am so fed up with the “search for balance” in the coverage of pure russian evil open.substack.com/pub/chakhoya...
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Everyone is guilty, everyone lies, and everyone kills children, the kremlin wants you to know
CNN did not mean to tell that story, but it did, and that's the problem.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Other genocides get their due attention. Not this one.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
That’s it. That’s what Russia does. It turns ordinary homes into places where grandmothers sit on the chair all night, terrified, waiting for the next explosion. This is terror against ordinary people. That’s what Russia does.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
'People who speak more than one language seem to have younger brains and the more languages you speak and the earlier you speak them, the better, according to findings from a study being presented at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies conference in Barcelona.' 1/2
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Learning another language appears to slow brain ageing, scientists say
Study finds those who speak two languages have brains that appear around six years younger than those who speak one
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Hi all, just sent out this free July 4th post. Americans have ceased being Americans, the change is more profound than many realize and involves fundamental issues of how people see themselves, war and the world. If it doesn’t change, the country will be crippled. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Can Americans Become Americans Again? A Question for July 4th
Hello All,
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Cambridge Ukrainian Studies @camukrainistyka.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🇺🇦 Some news from Rory Finnin, Professor of Ukrainian Studies: "Eighteen years ago, I launched Cambridge Ukrainian Studies from a small office on the Sidgwick Site at the University of Cambridge..." www.facebook.com/CambridgeUkr...
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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Wrote a column for The Hill on this very topic. Coverage of Ukraine's military successes has been extensive. The significance of Zelensky's letter, and the fact that it forced Putin to respond on someone else's terms, was largely overlooked. thehill.com/opinion/inte...
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Ukraine is finally setting the terms for Russia — so should the US
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has opened a new front in the cognitive warfare between Ukraine and Russia, challenging Putin’s authority and forcing him to respond, while Ukrain…
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Christel Ames @christelames.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
"Russia remains the world's largest unrepentant colonizer." "Russia perpetually seeks to subjugate others as a way to justify and perpetuate submission at home." "Russia's war is popular with large numbers of Russians and acceptable to an even larger number." kyivindependent.com/russias-war-...
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Russia's war on Ukraine: the new, the old, and the immutable
At the Trump-Xi summit in May 2026 in Beijing, China's President allegedly told his American counterpart that Vladimir Putin "might end up regretting" his invasion of Ukraine. This revelation is both ...
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Cambridge Ukrainian Studies @camukrainistyka.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Rory Finnin's award-winning book Blood of Others is now available in Ukrainian translation with Academic Studies Press. The edition is dedicated to Volodymyr Ananyev, Russia's oldest Ukrainian political prisoner. Please share Volodymyr's name and story with others. mezha.net/eng/bukvy/co...
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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 08/06/2026
🇺🇦 Recently, I enrolled in the University of Alberta's course on the Holodomor. For those interested in Ukraine's history, I highly recommend it for gaining a deeper understanding of the man-made famines & also of Moscow's oppression of Ukraine over the centuries.👇 www.coursera.org/learn/holodo...
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 27/05/2026
pride flag went up over the Kyiv neighborhood which was heavily bombed in the latest russian attack. no imperial terror can stop this tradition by my Kyiv Pride family of starting every pride month in Ukraine. Kyiv, unbreakable, proud and fighting for a better future for all of us
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
All these threats about wiping out Kyiv that the Russians are sending to Trump reveal two important things. First is that the Russians are getting hurt badly by Ukrainian ranged strike. Second, they view Trump as their patsy.
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The RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Now on view at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw: a contemporary Ukrainian art exhibition on Crimea, memory & displacement. Featuring Emine Ziyatdin. Open through 28 June 2026. tinyurl.com/5ypsu77n
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Crimea – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art
Opening 20/03/2026, 19:00 During the opening, a photo and video documentation will be made. The exhibition has been commissioned by the Ukrainian Institute and produced by the Past / Future /
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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
🎼 What impact did Ukrainian composers have on American modernism? Join us for a conversation with Dr Leah Batstone to hear more about Ukrainian musical modernism. 🗓️ 26 May at 6pm BST 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @uilleamblacker.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social
Event poster for 'Peripheral Solidarities: Ukrainian Musical Modernism Beyond Ukraine' with a painting 'Green Squares' by Joseph Schillinger.
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Cambridge Ukrainian Studies @camukrainistyka.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
On the Day of Remembrance of the Crimean Tatar Genocide, write a letter to a Ukrainian prisoner held by Russia, like Volodymyr Ananyev and Appaz Kurtamet. It only takes a moment, and your words will give hope: hrhcrimea.org.ua/en/letters-b...
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Ukraїner in English @ukrainer-en.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
“First, Russia must be defeated. Then Russian society must feel collective guilt for what happened under Stalinism and for the slaughters inflicted, especially on Ukrainians. There must be this collective sense of guilt. Russian children must learn the truth in textbooks of what Russians did.”
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 30/04/2026
⚡️ Ukraine overtakes US, 6 EU countries in Press Freedom Index. RSF attributed the improvement to Ukraine's "dynamic media sector and the investigative work carried out by Ukrainian outlets to strengthen transparency in the country's political life."
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Ukraine overtakes US, 6 EU countries in Press Freedom Index
RSF attributed the improvement to Ukraine's "dynamic media sector and the investigative work carried out by Ukrainian outlets to strengthen transparency in the country's political life."
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
“Strange as it sounds, it’s uplifting to visit Ukraine these days. This is a place where the good guys are winning — or at least holding their own. And they’re surviving with help from a stalwart Europe rather than a retreating United States.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Ukraine took Russia’s best punch. It wants to teach Europe what it learned.
The country’s fighters gave the continent's defense chiefs a blunt message: You forgot how to fight. We can help.
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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
“I have a PhD in atmospheric physics. I spent a decade measuring greenhouse gases from satellites. The thing that made me good at it was reading poetry. It trained me to notice what was not being said in a dataset. Every critical decision I made as a scientist was interpretation, not computation.”
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The Humanities Are the Moat
Twenty years of defunding the disciplines that teach judgement. Now we are surprised nobody can tell when AI is wrong.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 17/04/2026
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Olga Onuch @oonuch.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
What is the Political Sociology of Crisis?: 30 Years of Sociological Data from Ukraine A Candid Discussion and Q&A with Dr. Tymofii Brik Internationally Leading Ukrainian Sociologist and Rector of the Kyiv School of Economics 13:00 -14:30 April 24th
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Orbán's false flag should remind us that other people in similar situations (I mean Trump) will have similar thoughts. See my essay from yesterday on "The Next Coup Attempt." (2/2) snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...
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The Next Coup Attempt
And How to Stop It
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Background: Orbán is an entrenched but wildly unpopular oligarch and authoritarian. He is facing an election that he will decisively lose — unless he can manage some trick. This obvious false flag (which he will now blame on Ukraine) should not fool anyone. (1/2)
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Olga Onuch @oonuch.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
This article may be of interest www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @dziblatt.bsky.social @zeitzoff.bsky.social @timothysnyder.bsky.social @timbale.bsky.social @ponarseurasia.bsky.social @camukrainistyka.bsky.social @okhromeychuk.bsky.social @marcishore.bsky.social @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social
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KIU - Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies @kiu-network.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
📘KIU Guest Professor – Summer Semester 2026 Oksana Mikheieva teaches at our partner institution, the Kyiv School of Economics. During the Summer Semester 2026, she will offer two courses addressing the topics of Soviet totalitarianism and occupation zones in Ukraine. @viadrina.eu
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Give your key defenses and fortress cities to Russia which has been unable to take them in 12 years of fighting, and then we who are acting to strengthen Russia will pretend to help you protect the rest of your country. This is shameful, rotten, and stinks of corruption.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Are you a university instructor who would like to support Ukraine? The Flying University for Ukrainian Students organizes remote classes taught by faculty outside Ukraine for students in Ukraine. Those who have done it find it very gratifying. Express your interest here: www.flying-university.org
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Flying University for University Students
Flying University seminars are forums helping Ukrainian students overcome their isolation in the third debilitating year of war, along with expanding their knowledge.
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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
We don’t always get to choose our friends or enemies. Sometimes they choose us. Moscow shared military intelligence with Iran so it could target 🇺🇸 bases, putting 🇺🇸 lives at risk. 🇺🇦 sent its cutting-edge interceptor drones and drone warfare experts to help defend those same bases and protect 🇺🇸 lives.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
You have been desensitized into indifference.
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dontlistentoanyone.bsky.social @dontlistentoanyone.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
this is your reminder that @anneapplebaum.bsky.social has a supremely excellent podcast series called Autocracy in America, and the new season is essential listening. published by @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/aut...
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Autocracy in America
There are authoritarian tactics already at work in the United States. To root them out, you have to know where to look.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 11/03/2026
The Kyiv Independent’s Oleksiy Sorokin speaks with Daria Kaleniuk, executive director of Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Action Center, about the state of Ukraine’s anti-corruption reforms and their impact on the country’s bid to join the European Union. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Gj...
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Where does Ukraine's anti-corruption fight stand after Mindichgate?
YouTube video by Kyiv Independent
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The RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
We’re inviting journalists to attend and report on RUTA Conference 2026 (12–15 July, Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine). Theme: “Rooted knowledges and dialogues for change.” Applications open until 31 March: alexis.scott@ruta-association.org
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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
"The Ukrainian colleague who walks into her office on the 25th of February 2022 at a Western institution: The professor comes up to her and says, “I am so sorry! It’s just awful! I love Russia so much!”" by @efdavies.bsky.social efdavies.substack.com/p/have-you-h...
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Have you heard these stories?
Why the challenges of colonialism and sexism are so similar.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
OTD in 2015 I admitted that I was lying & that the masked, armed men in Crimea were indeed Russian soldiers. In doing so I admitted I invaded Ukraine. You had the chance to do something. You chose short term profit. And long term losses
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
It's not discourse, it's cheerleading and denialism, and it's nakedly transparent whether it's Ukraine, Syria, Gaza or Iran.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
One thing I've learnt about conflict investigation in this age of open source evidence is you always see the same lies, just dressed in different uniforms. "It can't be my side that blew up the mosque/hospital/school it's a false flag/errant munition from the other side" with scant evidence produced
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Just a reminder it’s been two days since reports came out, later acknowledged by Trump and his Administration, that Russia has been helping Iran to try and kill US military personnel. And the Trump response so far has been...drum roll please...to reduce sanctions on Russia!
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 09/03/2026
Ukraine marks 212 years since Taras Shevchenko’s birth, as his words still power Ukrainian resistance against Russian aggression.
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