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yuri

@ykazakov.bsky.social
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somewhere between the dead and the living / lapsed historian of the russian 20th century / translator ru↔eng / nyc / everything is forever until it is no more

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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
well, at least they used ukrainian transliteration...
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
the good news is that her plan won't be implemented because conservatives won't win the next election. the bad news is that
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
the two red scares...
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
what they teach in high schools is that nixon famously lost debates to JFK because he looked sweaty on television as opposed to radio
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The FSB has been returned the right to operate pretrial detention centers by the legislature, which they were deprived of in 2006. A small step (especially as, per the article, the FSB retained de facto control over some cells) but one that signals an even greater turn to repression ahead.
meduza.io
Госдума вернула ФСБ право иметь собственные СИЗО — Meduza
Госдума приняла в третьем чтении закон, который дает право ФСБ иметь собственные следственные изоляторы (СИЗО). Это следует из данных базы законопроектов нижней палаты парламента.
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
This follows years of brand new Stalin sculptures and busts cropping up over Russia, as the intensification of relitigation and relegitimation of Stalinist memory for the state's authoritarian turn. Will have to see if the CPRF's request to return "Stalingrad" works out
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Russia's Communist Party adopted a resolution condemning Khrushchev's "On the Cult of Personality and its Consequences," also known as the secret speech, as "mistaken," "containing falsified facts and false accusations against Stalin" during its party congress today: meduza.io/news/2025/07...
meduza.io
Съезд КПРФ объявил доклад Хрущева о культе личности Сталина ошибочным — Meduza
Партия КПРФ во время съезда, прошедшего в Московской области, приняла резолюцию, в которой объявила ошибочным доклад Никиты Хрущева о культе личности Иосифа Сталина, сообщает РИА Новости.
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
IU's Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian programs were among the best in the world, a gem of American academia that nurtured numerous giants, including Stephen Cohen. Now almost all of them are abolished, including PhD programs. What an unmitigated disaster.
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
first time i've ever stood in line for a primary election
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Last words of the Zohran canvasser handing me a flyer around the block from the polling place: "anybody but Cuomo"
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
not handing it to russia, but there's been quite a retreat from the blatantly insane policy since summer 2022 after the evident failures into slightly more rational territory
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
russia has returned to its pre-1917 role as the tip of the spear driving reaction
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Harvard just announced a hiring freeze last week, but they have the space for a failure and a war criminal. "inaugural Kissinger Professor." what a joke
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
people here really are snowflakes when it comes to the democratic party
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
a gold rush triggered by higher prices from trump's tariffs has caused illegal miners to destroy cocoa farmland in ghana, lowering prices and polluting water supplies in what some NGOs are calling "ecocide"
ft.com
How illegal gold mining is fuelling a chocolate shortage
Ghanaian farmers are ditching cocoa to dig for bullion and driving up global prices
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“The main turn-on for Trump is the ability to portray himself as a man who can solve a very difficult problem. If Ukraine does not agree to his terms, the entire formula loses its meaning,” another Russian diplomat added.
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“We [Russia] are valuable to Trump primarily in the context of solving a problem: the war in Ukraine. If that issue falls off the agenda, then the entire agenda is thrown into question — what else is there to talk about?” a Russian diplomat said."
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The White House is too pro-Kremlin for the Kremlin: "The Kremlin is increasingly worried that the emerging rift between the U.S. and Ukraine could derail a potential agreement between Washington and Moscow, The Moscow Times’ sources say."
themoscowtimes.com
Kremlin Fears Trump-Zelensky Clash Could Harm Its Shot at a Grand Bargain - The Moscow Times
The Kremlin is increasingly worried that the emerging rift between the U.S. and Ukraine could derail a potential agreement between Washington and Moscow, The Moscow Times’ sources say.  As U.S.
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
it's an absurd false dichotomy, you can have both in europe. shame isabella weber isn't here, she's explaining why this leads to a WWI-style disaster on twitter. this is very well covered ground
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
there's some very real capital they get, too!
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The key here is to understand that for Trump, it's not a "lie" - it's a Sorelian political myth that allows for him to harness anti-trans bigotry in order to create an overarching worldview where teachers must be destroyed to preserve the sacred nature of the family.
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
There it is: permanent austerity must decimate our way of life so that we can lose an unwinnable war: www.ft.com/content/3705...
ft.com
Europe must trim its welfare state to build a warfare state
There is no way of defending the continent without cuts to social spending
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
yeah it does depend on how hurt they are and how willing they are to let socdems/demsocs save them from themselves. but even during the new deal the conservative coalition formed to block FDR; they'll fight to block DSA types
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
whether it's the "american gentry" of car dealerships, construction companies, or large, multinational banks, and hedge funds, the odds of them supporting a large, populist, leftwing uprising are low. can small donors make it up? in my opinion, chances are slim
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
the reason this isn't likely is the same reason why the tea party worked: the common factor of both parties is that they're a vehicle for capital and billionaires. capital found the tea party useful; capital is not going to find an AOC-like mass movement useful
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
www.ft.com/content/3edb...
ft.com
Starmer’s bid to save a western alliance in meltdown
The British prime minister believes he can still be a bridge between the Trump White House and Europe. But is this anything other than wishful thinking?
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
hopefully political imagination and political will can be rallied into a new order, not continuing the mistakes that led us here, as the krastev op-ed concluded
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
in an FT op-ed, krastev recognizes trump ii as a revolutionary government planning to remake the global order into an explicit america-first arrangement, and once agains pleads with europe to display political strength: www.ft.com/content/3507...
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
More wake up calls, again. To be followed up by another one tomorrow, next week, etc
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
zelensky's confrontation is made all the more remarkable for how much his country depends on american support. compare with the cowardice of the american press corps and the obsequious groveling of eg Sir Keir
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
beautiful obit to spassky in the guardian: "In the summer of 1946, Spassky began to visit a chess pavilion in the city’s Central Park and became obsessed with the game: “I used to go at 11am and return home at 11pm. When the pavilion closed in September it was like death, with no chess."
theguardian.com
Boris Spassky obituary
Russian chess world champion who lost to Bobby Fischer in the sport’s most famous match at the peak of the cold war
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
i've said this a bunch on the other site. no higher thinking, 2+2=5, we will smash our heads against the wall not because it'll break the wall but because we want to, we will throw stones at glass castles for no reason other than because we can
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Notes from the Underground continues to be a basic explanatory framework for our politics.
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The Trump effect in action:
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
the first sign was the plane crash in DC, and then the other ten plane crashes that followed. but i don't think that stops the catastrophes
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
this is true, russians used in the 90s vodka in as "currency" (more of like a barter economy)
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
(and for that matter canadians aren't going to be voting blue, they're going to be killing as many americans as they can get their hands on)
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Why do people think Ukrainians or Palestinians, of whom a significant amount are armed, are going to roll over and accept imperial, genocidal conquest forced upon them?
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The Trump effect is remarkable. If there were anything to rekindle the Ukrainian fighting spirit after months of flagging morale, thousands of troops going AWOL, and paper brigades, it would exactly be "Zelensky is a dictator, Ukraine started the war. and it owes us $500 billion."
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
lmfao holy shit we're reaching new levels of "fuck the yanks"
Ottawa shop ditching Americano for Canadiano
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
NATO as an anti-US, anti-Russia alliance
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Yet another wake up call for Europe. To be followed up by another one tomorrow, next week, etc
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
vance to be excommunicated, converts to eastern orthodoxy or some form of sedevacantism before 2026
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
"under fire" ..!
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
"Have you taken leave of your senses?" is "Вы что, сошли с ума?" ....?
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
within the first five minutes i can tell war crimes happened in that kitchen.
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yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
they're working at wired, 404, etc. at risk of sounding exceedingly credulous, i'm furious that the paper of record can even entertain the thought of publishing something like this
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