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Oxana Shevel

@oxanashevel.bsky.social
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Prof @TuftsPoliSci. Post-communism, nationalism, identity, citizenship, memory, religion. 2024 book: 🇷🇺 and 🇺🇦 : Entangled Histories, Diverging States. tinyurl.com/5y8nvemb

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Faculti @faculti.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
To what extent can a U.S-brokered peace framework remain credible when its foundations overlap with an adversary’s negotiating positions? @oxanashevel.bsky.social @tufts.edu Department of Political Science discusses: faculti.net/inside-washi... #Politics #Diplomacy
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
In Feb 2022, those who took Western intelligence reports seriously wondered who the Ru-installed puppet would be. @oxanashevel.bsky.social and I predicted Ukrainians would fight hard and a puppet couldn't rule, Ru would have to try to achieve full occupation: www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukr...
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Putin Cannot Erase Ukraine
No Russian invasion can undo Ukrainian nationhood.
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Oxana Shevel @oxanashevel.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Summer camp is one of the magics of childhood summers. Please consider donating to this fundraiser to help Ukrainian children to experience the joy of a summer camp. givebutter.com/kidsUA
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Help Ukrainian Children Attend a Camp!
Help send a Ukrainian child affected by war to a Plast scouting summer camp. Just $100 can cover half of their participation cost, and give them joy, learning, and a safe space to heal. Click “Donate ...
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Oxana Shevel @oxanashevel.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The past hangs over the present, and today's dictator coz-plays dictators of yesterday, selectively remembering, forgetting, & twisting facts to justify his imperialism & authoritarianism as a greater good rather than disaster that it is.
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Yoshiko Herrera @yoshikoherrera.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
More dumb Stalinism: wapo.st/3Z37N4G
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These historians oversee unbiased accounts of U.S. foreign policy. Trump fired them all.
An advisory committee of historians helps ensure the record of America’s history remains unbiased, transparent and thorough. Trump just fired the entire panel.
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Oxana Shevel @oxanashevel.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
When will this platform have easy bookmark functionality for posts? I find myself sticking to the other one because I can easily bookmark posts. Here are many more worthy posts to bookmark but no easy way to do it - not from the main feed at least.
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Oxana Shevel @oxanashevel.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Harvard sues Trump admin for actions that are "unlawful and beyond the government's authority." Great move, Harvard. Link to Harvard complaint submitted to court: links.repoint.harvard.edu/servlet/Mail...
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Oxana Shevel @oxanashevel.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Half the country and nearly 80% of republicans remain in denial of what this regime is quickly moving towards. I wonder if they will be eventually (soon) swayed by the facts or will deny reality because jailing will be for views they themselves don’t hold.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/04/2025
DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Cinco de Mayo parades in Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Jose have been canceled due to organizers' concerns about ICE raids and anti-immigrant sentiment, as community members fear attending.
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Brian Whitmore @powervertical.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
What does Russia's post-Soviet experience and the failure of its weak and fledgling democracy in the ‘90s teach us about our current American moment? It's been the elephant in my classroom all semester. In this essay, I address the elephant open.substack.com/pub/brianwhi...
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Strange New World
Global Putinism, Gangsterism, and the Crisis of the West
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Oxana Shevel @oxanashevel.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This is shocking. Read full article. Explosion of these agreements since trump inauguration, turning not just local police but also agencies such as finance departments and fish and wildlife commissions into immigration enforcement agents during them performing their “routine duties.”
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Oxana Shevel @oxanashevel.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I’d add that this admin misunderstands 🇷🇺 too if they think econ incentives are key. putin demands 4handover & formal recognition of 5 territories is but one step towards key 🇷🇺 goal 2 destroy 🇺🇦 state. putin is leading these real estate “experts” by the nose & they r falling for it.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Our new article w @oxanashevel.bsky.social which is based on my 2023 keynote at ECPR is out in European Political Science Journal. link.springer.com/article/10.1... We trace Ukraine's European choice and discuss its significance for Europe and for political science
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Ukraine is Europe: lessons for Europe and for political science - European Political Science
This article reflects on the significance of Ukraine’s European choice—a series of pro-European political choices that both Ukraine’s citizens and its political elites gradually committed to, and whic...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Trump’s whopping great tariffs on the tiny African nation of Lesotho sum up the full madness of the scheme. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
US imposed a 50% tariff on Lesotho,
whose average citizen earns less than $5 a
day.


Why?


Because the formula for supposedly
"reciprocal" tariff rates has nothing to do
with tariffs. The Trump team have
calculated each penalty by dividing the
U.S. trade deficit with a given country by
how much the U.S. imports from it and
then doing a rough adjustment. Because
Lesothơ's ppl are too poor to afford most
U.S. exports, while the U.S. imports $237
million in diamonds and other goods from
the nation, they have reserved the highest-
possible tariff rate for one of the world's
poorest places. The idea that taxing
Lesotho gemstones is necessary for the
U.S. to add steel jobs in Ohio is absurd
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Morning Bluesky. Russia is pushing the idea that the extraordinarily successful Hands Off protests yesterday were organised by the ‘Deep State’ to bring about a ‘Colour Revolution’ in America like the one that overthrew the Putin puppet in Ukraine in 2004. Expect Trump to echo.
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Taras Melnyk @taras19921.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Students from the 🇩🇪 Film Academy have created a film in support of 🇺🇦 children Their goal is to raise awareness about the impact of the war and to collect $10,000 in support of the Voices of Children foundation which provides psychological assistance to the youngest Ukrainians. x.com/Sho_Tam_/sta...
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Oxana Shevel @oxanashevel.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
If trump commits 2side w/putin & if European support 4🇺🇦 falls short 🇷🇺 would eventually go 4Kyiv again but there will b no 🇺🇦 capitulation & puppet regime can only b kept in power by occupational force. Will trump keep backing putin 2this hypothetical bitter end? Our new piece @popovaprof.bsky.social
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Oxana Shevel @oxanashevel.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Leaked doc analyzed by WP on 🇷🇺goals in negotiations. Even 🇷🇺 FSB acknowledges that no pro-🇷🇺 regime can emerge in 🇺🇦 "from inside the country" & thus "complete dismantling" of 🇺🇦 state & govt is needed. No NATO is insufficient. What @popovaprof.bsky.social & I have been saying all along⬇️
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Bogdan Logvynenko @logvynenko.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Радий вас сповістити, що книга "Деокупація" виходить незабаром англійською і її можна вже передзамовити. Це дуже відповідально – передавати історії українською спротиву для світу. Дякую команді за таку можливість.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Putin keeps talking about removing the "root causes of the war". The root cause of the war is russian imperialism. Removing it will be a hard/ long process that has to start w end of Pu's regime, followed by democratization, and a conscious policy of deimperialization. @oxanashevel.bsky.social and I
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Time to re-share this article, which lays out the many similarities in how Trump talks about Canada and how Putin talks about Ukraine. It's getting worse by the day. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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ANALYSIS | Trump's talk about Canada parrots Putin's claims on Ukraine | CBC News
Donad Trump's threats and claims about Canada may be unprecedented in the history of U.S.-Canada relations. But they have a strong precedent elsewhere in recent history: They closely resemble remarks ...
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Steven Seegel @stevenseegel.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
JD refused to speak with his cousin or ask him questions for fear that the facts would change his political ambitions and the need to tell “stories.” This is how delusional men operate. Respect to Nate Vance and the veteran community.
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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine for 2.5 years, as a medic for an infantry company. I write plays and books. For 10 years, I have been working in human rights organizations. I am a PhD student in social work and a radio host. Head of the volunteer patronage service for the wounded Teplonosiї.
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Oxana Shevel @oxanashevel.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Review of new book "Occupation: Russian Rule in South-Eastern Ukraine" by David Lewis. "A chilling account of occupied southeastern 🇺🇦reveals systematic program of Russification combined with chaos, brutality and corruption." Occupation is not peace & should not be normalized thru formal recognition.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
One day he’s telling us that tariffs are amazing because they will bring lots of new jobs to the US and raise so much money we won’t have to pay income tax, then the next day he’s telling us we aren’t doing them because people were nice to him on the phone.
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Yoshiko Herrera @yoshikoherrera.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
It's like Stalinism but unbelievably dumber. The Soviets actually devoted substantial human resources to decide what kind of art/music/literature/film was supportive of their communist ideology. Now we just have literally brainless censorship
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Oxana Shevel @oxanashevel.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Pokrovsk was “on the verge” of falling in like July. Months after & 10s of thousands dead russians (plus N.Koreans) later it’s not going that great. 🇷🇺 is not strong but it hopes 2bs 🇺🇸 admin 2 help it accomplish what it can’t in 🇺🇦 “Proxy war” - but with a nuance.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Remember when British intelligence said in 2022 that Russia’s plan is to go into Ukraine, install a puppet and leave. @OxanaShevel and I explained why it wouldn’t work. And it didn’t. Now it’s starting to look like Trump’s attacks on Ze are a revival of that plan. Again…
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Donnacha Ó Beacháin @donnachadcu.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Russian imperialism didn’t start in 2022, nor is it confined to Ukraine. My new book analyses the Kremlin’s long shadow—past and present. Out on 24 April.
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@steffrichard73.bsky.social 💙💛🦈🌻🍉🦝🚜✊🇺🇦 @steffrichard73.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Trump and Vance could thank Ukraine for the aid/help provided in Irak. They've lost 18 soldiers there
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/ Slava Ukraini.
war.ukraine.ua
Donate to Ukraine’s defenders
The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
From Bulgaria’s best cartoonist, Christo Komarnitski
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 01/03/2025
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.
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3dawglady.bsky.social @3dawglady.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
From Liz Cheney today and I couldn't agree more!
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Oxana Shevel @oxanashevel.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"Trump and Vance have revealed to Americans and to America’s allies their alignment with Russia, and their animosity toward Ukraine in general and its president in particular. The truth is ugly, but it’s necessary to face it."
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Brian J. Karem @briankarem.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.
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Brian Whitmore @powervertical.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This is Europe's moment to shine
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Oxana Shevel @oxanashevel.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
@popovaprof.bsky.social & I wrote about the dangers and symptoms of a lopsided "quick deal" on the war. Read 🧵below and here's 🔗to the piece in The National Interest: nationalinterest.org/feature/be-w...
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Oxana Shevel @oxanashevel.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Another shameful move by trump admin. Placating aggressor & bullying victim as well as allies doesn’t bring stable peace any closer.
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff referred to the early 2022 Istanbul protocols as offering "guideposts" for negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. An agreement based on those protocols would be a capitulation document.🧵 (1/9)
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Oxana Shevel @oxanashevel.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Downtown #Boston today was awash in blue and yellow. Thank you to all American who continue to #StandWithUkraine
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Here Thomas Graham finally admits that Russia’s aim is to control Ukraine and turn it into a Belarus. So no more russia is afraid of NATO nonsense, he realizes that russia wants to vassalize Ukraine. @oxanashevel.bsky.social have argued this since 2022.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
“Zelensky survived a dozen Russian assassination attempts including a special forces assault on his presidential complex.He stood up to Trump. I’m sure he’ll be deeply impressed to learn our Congressional Republicans live as terrified hostages of their own party leader.” ~ @michaeldweiss.bsky.social
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Roman Yeremenko @roalyr.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Напишіть: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Oxana Shevel @oxanashevel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
If you are in DC, I'm giving a talk today at 4pm on @popovaprof.bsky.social and mine book at GW. To understand how this war is (ul)likely to end it is important to understand its causes, this is what our book is about. Spoiler: NATO expansion didn't cause the war. calendar.gwu.edu/event/book-t...
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Book Talk | Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States
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Olga Onuch @oonuch.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Make this @OfficialUoM press release viral “Trump … echoed Kremlin talking points, by falsely claiming …Zelensky’s approval rating stands at a mere 4%…polling…puts his approval rating at 63% - making him the most popular politician in the country.” www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/t...
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Trump is making false claims about Zelensky's popularity, say experts
US President Donald Trump has once again echoed Kremlin talking points, by falsely claiming that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s approval rating stands at a mere 4%. In reality, polling by ex...
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Oxana Shevel @oxanashevel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
While trum get hysterical because Ze didn't sign off on the minerals deal with terms worse then post-WWI reparations on Germany let me remind u Art.3 of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum where the US agreed to "refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise
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