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#RussianColonialism storyteller-in-chief. author of award-winning “Russian Colonialism 101”🪆🪓

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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"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."
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Adapting to War: The Evolution of Russia’s Intelligence Ecosystem - International Centre for Defence and Security
Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia’s intelligence ecosystem has redirected its priorities toward supporting the war effort while adapting to a more constrained and conte...
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 27/09/2026
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...
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welcome to apocalypse baroque.
the book i have been waiting for the most this year.
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 26/09/2026
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...
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Victoria Amelina Fellowship Programme 2027: Open Call
Two scholarship recipients will spend January to March 2027 in Lviv, Amelina’s hometown, working on their own literary projects....
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 21/09/2026
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-...
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how to control a country without crossing its border.
A Ukrainian journalist documented the prototype back in the 1990s. Moscow is still running it.
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Militarnyi @militarnyi.com · 19/09/2026
🇺🇦🇺🇸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-...
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USA Approves $2.7 Billion Sale of Air Defense Systems to Ukraine
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
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 19/09/2026
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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my ultimate decolonisation test.
russian books in my library. Should I burn them, throw them in the garbage, or do something else?
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Henning Dekant 📎 @quaxquax.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
How about the fact that Putin never moderated his maximalist demands? After four years and countless talks with him this should be bloody obvious.
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CatMother1967 @catmother1967.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
No notes 👇🏻
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 13/09/2026
great russian culture.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 13/09/2026
🚨 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.
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 13/09/2026
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...
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how tolstoy helped russia steal crimea.
five things the empire tried to bury, including its own colonial garbage in Alaska, but couldn’t.
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 07/09/2026
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...
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stop being obsessed with Putin’s brain.
It won’t unlock a way out of this war. Understanding russian imperial culture will.
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 06/09/2026
we are witnessing one of the most embarrassing and catastrophic failures of American diplomacy in history — all triggered by complete inability to read imperial russia.
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 30/08/2026
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 🪆🪓
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 30/08/2026
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 empire of mass neurosis.
russia: because nothing says “civilisation” like chronic insecurity.
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 28/08/2026
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why russia is a death cult.
and has always been.
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 24/08/2026
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
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 24/08/2026
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
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 24/08/2026
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...
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the czech warning we should all hear.
The values and playbooks of russian empire never changed — only its name did.
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
As @maksymeristavi.com will tell you, they strike book markets because they are trying to destroy Ukrainian culture, because this is a colonial war.
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Erich Meier @erichmeier.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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...
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 12/08/2026
⚡ Sanctioned Nvidia AI tech was found inside Russia's new stealth missile. united24media.com/defense-tech...
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Russia’s New Stealth Missile Can Hunt Targets With AI—Powered by Nvidia Tech It Shouldn’t Have
Ukraine's HUR found an Nvidia Jetson Orin module in Russia's S-71M Monochrome missile, revealing AI and machine vision use in new Russian weapons.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 12/08/2026
🔴 Russian missiles destroyed a major shopping center in Zaporizhzhia, killing one person and injuring nine.
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Russia Hits Zaporizhzhia With Six Missiles, Destroys Epicentr Shopping Center
Russian forces hit Zaporizhzhia with six missiles, destroying the Epicentr shopping center, killing one person and injuring nine.
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Paulina Kewes @paulinakewes.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Compulsory reading!
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Jenn Wong @jennwong.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Even two or three generations after emigrating, feel this in my bones.
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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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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 05/08/2026
🔴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.
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 05/08/2026
great russian culture.
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 05/08/2026
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
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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"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!
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Major airport shuts runway down as 'drone carrying detonator' spotted
Investigators have been called in after a suspected bomb drone was discovered at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 05/08/2026
😠 Russia’s overnight ballistic missile attack on Kyiv on August 5 reportedly included Iskander-M missiles carrying cluster warheads.
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]|[nquisitor S. (Lexicanum) @inquisitors.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Cultural genocide is an essential part of genocide. And it has been a favourite tool of the ruSSian naZis since they crawled out of their swamps.
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Erich Meier @erichmeier.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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...
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Erich Meier @erichmeier.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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)👇👇
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 02/08/2026
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...
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why russia is obsessed with burning Ukrainian books.
And why a Ukrainian book makes the empire terrified.
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 25/07/2026
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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russia was never "different".
This week's reads attack the Krelim's myth that russia has never been imperial or colonial.
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борщ з ананасами @aprosdoketon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
який чудовий домен
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 21/07/2026
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...
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russia only reforms after losing.
History is clear on this: the only thing that ever changes russia is losing the wars it started.
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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 18/07/2026
🇺🇦 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)
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Ralph Brandi @thereisnocat.com · 17/07/2026
Love this book, and the illustrations are a big part of why. russia has invaded its neighbors countless times, and this book has the receipts. Well worth purchasing.
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 17/07/2026
my favourite part of our Russian Colonialism 101 guidebook is the dozens of anti-colonial illustrations by Ukrainian wartime artists. we even have lithographs by a Ukrainian artist Alisa Gots. best part? you can purchase them with global shipping here: www.lithography30.com?category=Rus...
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 12/07/2026
the harshest homophobic slur in my language isn't indigenous. it's an imperial prison-camp export russia still ships as "traditional values" — to prepare the ground before the imperial troops arrive. find out more in my latest brief: endrussia.today/p/hatred-is-...
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hatred is russian culture.
russia didn’t invent homophobia—but it legally engineered it in its colonies. How empire rewrote Ukrainian, Moldovan, Central Asian laws to institutionalise hatred.
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Denys from Ukraine @glushko.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🤬 Russia struck central Zaporizhzhia with a guided bomb, regional governor Ivan Fedorov said. At least one person has been killed and three others injured, according to preliminary reports. 📹 ivan_fedorov_zp/Telegram
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 10/07/2026
from my 2023 archive on Bandera and all: russia has weaponised the idea of indigenous nationalism for way too long. time to reclaim it. endrussia.today/p/bandera-is...
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do you also have a phobia of Ukrainian nationalism?
russia weaponised the idea of indigenous nationalism. Time to reclaim it.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 07/07/2026
⚡️Ukraine puts a record 22 of its universities on the world's best colleges list despite the ongoing war. united24media.com/life-in-ukra...
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Despite Ongoing War, Ukraine Sets Historic Record With 22 Universities On THE 2026 Global Rankings List
Ukraine's higher education performance shines with 22 universities in THE World University Rankings 2026, a new record despite ongoing conflict.
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Morgenbladet @morgenbladet.no · 23/06/2026
Vi ser oss blinde på herskeren i Kreml, men glemmer Russlands lange tradisjon for invasjoner og etnisk rensning, mener forfatter Maksym Eristavi, som har studert røttene til russisk kolonialisme.
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(+) – Putin er bare et biprodukt av systemet
Vi ser oss blinde på herskeren i Kreml, men glemmer Russlands lange tradisjon for invasjoner og etnisk rensning, mener forfatter Maksym Eristavi, som har studert røttene til russisk kolonialisme.
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 04/07/2026
"what people who aren't in Ukraine don't understand is that if Ukraine falls, they are next." my latest brief on how women drive the wars the russian empire loses — and why their impact stays invisible. endrussia.today/p/empires-ne...
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women power the wars empires lose.
How women drive the wars empires lose — and why their impact stays invisible.
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Denys from Ukraine @glushko.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🇯🇵🇺🇦🫶 During the Ukrainian delegation’s visit to Tokyo, Japanese colleagues came to the talks wearing vyshyvankas.
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 30/06/2026
great russian culture.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 30/06/2026
⚡ Ukrainian forensic teams and police are frequently discovering hidden explosives rigged inside the bodies of repatriated soldiers. united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...
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Explosives Frequently Discovered Inside Repatriated Ukrainian Bodies, Police Report
The discovery of explosives in returned bodies highlights a disturbing tactic and underscores the complex challenges in identifying Ukraine's war casualties.
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