yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 21/07/2025the good news is that her plan won't be implemented because conservatives won't win the next election. the bad news is that 030
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 10/07/2025what they teach in high schools is that nixon famously lost debates to JFK because he looked sweaty on television as opposed to radio 250
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 08/07/2025The 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.ioГосдума вернула ФСБ право иметь собственные СИЗО — MeduzaГосдума приняла в третьем чтении закон, который дает право ФСБ иметь собственные следственные изоляторы (СИЗО). Это следует из данных базы законопроектов нижней палаты парламента. 010
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 06/07/2025This 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 020
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Russia'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.ioСъезд КПРФ объявил доклад Хрущева о культе личности Сталина ошибочным — MeduzaПартия 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. 131
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 30/06/2025IU'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. 14332
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Last words of the Zohran canvasser handing me a flyer around the block from the polling place: "anybody but Cuomo" 110
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 13/06/2025not 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 020
Reposted by yuriCarly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 26/04/2025It’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 3853551481
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 17/03/2025russia has returned to its pre-1917 role as the tip of the spear driving reaction 030
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Harvard 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 050
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025people here really are snowflakes when it comes to the democratic party 000
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025a 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.comHow illegal gold mining is fuelling a chocolate shortageGhanaian farmers are ditching cocoa to dig for bullion and driving up global prices 042
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. 000
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." 100
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 06/03/2025The 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.comKremlin Fears Trump-Zelensky Clash Could Harm Its Shot at a Grand Bargain - The Moscow TimesThe 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. 121
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 05/03/2025it'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 000
Reposted by yuriSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 05/03/2025The 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. 28511
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 05/03/2025There it is: permanent austerity must decimate our way of life so that we can lose an unwinnable war: www.ft.com/content/3705...ft.comEurope must trim its welfare state to build a warfare stateThere is no way of defending the continent without cuts to social spending 220
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 05/03/2025yeah 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 010
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 05/03/2025whether 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 230
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 05/03/2025the 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 230
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 01/03/2025www.ft.com/content/3edb...ft.comStarmer’s bid to save a western alliance in meltdownThe 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? 010
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 01/03/2025hopefully 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 181
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 01/03/2025in 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... 010
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 01/03/2025More wake up calls, again. To be followed up by another one tomorrow, next week, etc 020
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025zelensky'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 0263
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025beautiful 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.comBoris Spassky obituaryRussian chess world champion who lost to Bobby Fischer in the sport’s most famous match at the peak of the cold war 011
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 23/02/2025i'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 0202
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Notes from the Underground continues to be a basic explanatory framework for our politics. 1315
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 21/02/2025the 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 020
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 21/02/2025this is true, russians used in the 90s vodka in as "currency" (more of like a barter economy) 020
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) 020
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Why 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? 120
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 20/02/2025The 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." 140
Reposted by yuriSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 20/02/2025lmfao holy shit we're reaching new levels of "fuck the yanks" 31673391105
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Yet another wake up call for Europe. To be followed up by another one tomorrow, next week, etc 19012
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 19/02/2025vance to be excommunicated, converts to eastern orthodoxy or some form of sedevacantism before 2026 4551
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 18/02/2025"Have you taken leave of your senses?" is "Вы что, сошли с ума?" ....? 100
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 18/02/2025within the first five minutes i can tell war crimes happened in that kitchen. 020
yuri @ykazakov.bsky.social · 18/02/2025they'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 081