Amazing. More power to the protests

A brilliant short piece on war and its monsters by @katetsurkan.bsky.social in La Piccioleta Barca: www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/iron-j...

The Khanenko Museum has won Project of Influence 2025, one of only two global awards from The Best in Heritage. Honoured for turning wartime challenges into cultural strength, the museum was praised as a symbol of resilience and inspiration for the future. 📷: The Khanenko Museum

#Belarus The heartbreaking and dark reality of what we face. Writer Ales Palynski died at the age of 58, and no one can bury him in Belarus. His wife and daughter are in jail. His son, my colleague, great journalist and musician, fled and now lives in exile. Painful.

That’s horrible to death. Two 13-year-old brothers weighing only 8.5 kg each were found bedridden in frontline Pokrovsk. They survived over a year under the care of their 10-year-old brother, Platón, after their grandmother's death, Ukrainska Pravda reports. 1/

Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko inside the damaged part of the Cabinet of Ministers building in Kyiv, which was attacked by Russian drones.

It’s always intriguing to stumble upon familiar words in Vilnius news from the Russian imperial period — like Azov and Don (Cossacks) — alongside a glimpse of a successful economic institution of that time, the Азовсько-донський банк (Azov-Don Bank), opening a branch in the city. #Azov #Vilnius

#SomethingLikeResearch #soccer #football www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7i6...

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Russian drone attack vs Ukraine drone attack

I’ll be in Berlin for the next 3 days. I’ll have some time for interviews on Georgia and the region if German media is interested.

SUPERB! The Film Atlas is a collaboration between the International Federation of Film Archives and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It is - or aims to be - an interactive global map of the history of film technology. The site has just gone live and it is free to use for all. www.filmatlas.com

When the NATO summit took place in Vilnius and optimists were full of hope about Ukraine being invited into the alliance, my friend organized a showing of this Maksym Palenko painting in the rather touristy Užupis district – hoping to tip the scales in Ukraine’s favor. Still praying for victory!

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A dog shelter in Kyiv during last night's Russian attack.

1/3 Spring blossoms have always carried a hint of melancholy for me. In the words In the words of Lithuanian classic Salomėja Neris: "I wasn’t yet - Lilacs were blooming. I’ll be gone - They’ll bloom again."

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So happy that our piece with @ankahajkova.bsky.social—"Teaching Eastern Europe in the Age of Russia’s Imperial Invasions: A Conversation on Being Postcolonial When No One Takes Any Notice"—is finally out in @historyworkshop.org.uk academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

"Ukraine says more than 20,000 children have been taken without the consent of family or guardians, calling the abductions a war crime that meets the U.N. treaty definition of genocide." tvpworld.com/86602988/eu-...

a whole cluster of postdocs and phd positions in Tartu in Digital Humanities / Computational Social Science / AI under the umbrella of big European projects. consider sharing please!

On this Labour Day, a thought—and a warning—from one of the Bund’s foundational texts, On Agitation (1894), attributed to Kremer (and Martov): "Nothing is easier than to deceive the worker and prove to him that shortening the working day is impossible". 1/2

1/2 russia wants to scale down the war in Ukraine and call it peace. But just like after Crimea, the war wouldn’t stop - it would only look like it did. Moscow thrives in long, cold conflicts, profiting from arms, energy, and control of resources. That kind of peace is a victory for Russia.

How about a peace?

Claretta Nijhuis @NijhuisClaretta 💞 #USA “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past" - #GeorgeOrwell "1984". The Budapest Memorandum signed in 1994…has disappeared from #WhiteHouse web site.

I think we are at the point when US citizens, when asked about the latest acts of brutality and stupidity their administration is committing, will answer: „oh, I’m just not that interested in politics”. That is a standard answer in Russia.

What a nice timeout from all that's happening, moose or no moose

“What did you learn from the russians? The fear of language and police. And what didn’t you learn? To pray and to love your country.” (Vladas Požėla, Memoirs of Youth, 1971, p. 15) These are the words Vladas Požėla is describing life in 19th-century Lithuania under Russian rule.

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Bureaucracy kills. My colleagues raised the latest round of support for Ukrainian historians fighting on the front lines at the end of November, but unfortunately, the purchased equipment only reached the soldiers a week ago. #StandWithUkraine #LithuaniaSupportsUkraine #SolidarityInAction

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Funny, the countries that didn't get tariffs: Russia North Korea Cuba Venezuela Berlarus Somalia Burkina Faso are, except for Cuba, which abstained, the same countries the US voted together with against the UN resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine. 🤔

Two powerful and radically different exhibitions now on view at Warsaw’s Zachęta reveal how experimental film continues to evolve — from avant-garde deconstruction to urgent human testimony. #Zachęta #opengroup #ŁódźFilmSchool #Warsztat

Yes, indeed—it’s as if Habermas walked into an 18th-century café in 1962 and never left... Meanwhile, in 21st-century Europe, writer Victoria Amelina speaks to a man in Balakliya, Ukraine, who recalls life under Russian occupation:

The latest episode of ESCALATION is out now, featuring the military aid NGO Blue/Yellow. Full episode: landsbergis.com/escalation-e... DONATE: blue-yellow.lt/en/#ways_con...

The doors were locked—intentionally. It was a common practice in women’s garment factories, meant to control and surveil female workers. At Triangle, it meant 146 mostly young immigrant women burned or jumped to their deaths. Not an accident, but a deadly policy. #LaborHistory #WomensHistory

Ukraine won a great victory by defeating the Black Sea pirates from the russian terrorist state. As a new ally of the russian terrorist state, the United States is trying to save the remnants of the Black Sea Fleet and break the spirit of sanctions by opening up trade for Russia.

On March 25, 1949, the Soviet Union committed one of its many crimes against humanity deporting 90,000 Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians to forced settlement in Siberia. - 70% of them were women and children - 2850 were solitary elderly - 185 were unaccompanied minors - 146 were disabled

With rescue efforts ongoing, the number of victims in Ukraine's city of Sumy as a result of the Russian strike yesterday has increased to 99 — Deputy Mayor Kuznetsov

Happy 100th birthday, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research! yivo.org/Centennial-r...

Anybody fancy applying for a 5year professorship at Kyoto University through the Hakubi project? I’d be happy to sponsor First World War related research. See the website for details: www.hakubi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/recruitme...

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.

To those who say Lithuanians support Ukraine only under the "safe" umbrella of NATO and the EU — think again. Our solidarity goes back generations. In the 19th century, Lithuanians were banned from using the Latin alphabet, and Ukrainians were banned from printing in their own language. 1/3

Another night, another battle I can’t win. The war tore through my sleep, fierce and unrelenting. I woke gasping, like I had been holding my breath for hours. It never ends—just waits, patient, for the next time the dark falls.

«You are a pro-war anarchists». Скільки ж разів нам доводилося це чути. Скільки разів доводилося пояснювати, що війна — це страшна трагедія для всіх, хто живе в Україні, і найбільше ми хочемо домогтися миру. www.solidaritycollectives.org/uk/you-are-a...

I took this photo during a protest on 11th March. Today I got fined for that and for covering protest on 15th of March as well, GEL10,000 in total - for "artificially blocking the road". Freedom of speech and assembly is counting last moments in this country :) More: oc-media.org/oc-media-co-...

I truly can't wrap my mind around this. If a database containing information on thousands of children whom russia kidnapped was indeed deleted, this would be a cover-up of the russian genocide. How will hiding russian crimes bring us peace??? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u...

Even as we celebrate, we do not forget Ukraine. Wrapped in Lithuanian & Ukrainian flags, we paddle together in one boat, floating on a river of Irish green! #StPatricksDay #Vilnius #StandWithUkraine #uzupis

Russian authorities abduct Ukrainian journalist, torture her for months w electrocution until she dies in custody, weighing less than 30kg. #russianwarcrimes khpg.org/en/160881447...