⚡️Ukraine puts a record 22 of its universities on the world's best colleges list despite the ongoing war. united24media.com/life-in-ukra...

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.

"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...

🇯🇵🇺🇦🫶 During the Ukrainian delegation’s visit to Tokyo, Japanese colleagues came to the talks wearing vyshyvankas.

great russian culture.

⚡ Ukrainian forensic teams and police are frequently discovering hidden explosives rigged inside the bodies of repatriated soldiers. united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

in Eastern Europe, WWII ended with the fall of russian occupation in the 1990s. in Moscow, WWII is still the state religion. but it isn’t memory — it’s a weapon. and it’s still being used as an engine for every “liberation,” every genocide the Kremlin justifies today

Pride Month is over in a couple of days, and I am still 128 EUR short of my target for the Ukrainian air defences crowdfunding call. would you flex your superpowers for me please? send.monobank.ua/jar/TMa6HNXv6

my latest on how Soviet war memorials in Europe have never been designed to honour the dead and their sacrifice. instead, they depict the empire’s idealised self, standing on the bodies of the colonised. endrussia.today/p/soviet-war...

Yet another enlightening and thought-provoking essay from @maksymeristavi.com. It got me to wondering… open.substack.com/pub/maksymer...

🐴🐎Do you love horses, animals? Remember russia bombed a riding club yesterday? They need help! ⬇️ A small donation🙏 or a follow and kind words on their IG account to give hope🙏

Donated! May they care for the horses and rebuild what is needed 🙏 (I used PP as monobank creditcard often refuses transaction)

I’m not sure you can get any more proud than this. Emotional stuff. ❤️ 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈

This is the second equestrian facility I know of that Russians have bombed in the last week. They also attacked a facility/school in Sumy.

🌈🇺🇦 Kyiv Pride, today. Just imagine, we are under martial law, but the gathering is allowed, because we live in a democracy and people show up to advocate for their basic human rights. Not something you could see in Moscow.

the Kyiv Pride march today is led by Ukrainian queer soldiers and vets carrying pictures and names of queer Ukrainian heroes killed while fighting homophobic russian empire. Ukraine fights for a better, dignified future for all of us.

can't force myself to share the video of what russians did yesterday to this riding club in my homecity Zaporizhzhia. instead, here's what it looked like before. a pillar of the community, helping so many with mental struggle, it lost 3 horses to russian terror, many are injured. they need our help.

still $150 short of the target. power or boost please linktr.ee/maksym.erist...

a unique window has opened. we are witnessing Ukraine’s biggest breakthrough since 2023 and a rare chance to end this. frontline voices and researchers warn: 4–5 months before the other side adapts. the moment to mobilise is now.

ETA: Ukrainian foreign minister answered the question:

Історіографія часто подає релігійні війни XVII століття як суто західноєвропейське явище, фокусуючись лише на Франції, Нідерландах чи німецьких князівствах. Проте ці конфлікти перетворили на арену прагматичних союзів і Східну Європу.

🤯 Ukraine has reportedly developed the EW-resistant "DART" missile. Launched from stratospheric balloons at altitudes of 12–18 km, the missile completely shuts off its navigation at 6 km, flying purely on a fixed course to evade jamming.

russian regimes come and go, the culture of russian imperialism stays the same.

Day 27. Unfortunately we are stalling. We got $10 in over 31h. Our guys lives matter, please continue to believe in them and support them. Приєднуйтесь до допомоги захисникам. Треба дуже терміново закрити збір. PP: [email protected] (paypal.me/olexmsv) Jar (Банка): send.monobank.ua/jar/8iqEypzcRp

cultural erasure isn’t collateral damage in russian warfare. it’s a tactic. endrussia.today/p/russian-co...

*taps sign 👇* The very existence of independent Ukraine is contrary to Putin's Russian World agenda. Russia is not trying to win the war or conquer Ukraine. Russia is trying to erase Ukraine from existence.

how russia replaced indigenous clothing traditions with imperial caricature — and why Ukrainian fashion is now a frontline of anti-colonial resistance. endrussia.today/p/russian-co...

when they built Lavra in Kyiv, Moscow or russia were still centuries from being founded. that’s exactly the reason they are so obsessed with destroying it: by simply existing Ukrainian ancient culture proves it was a civilization while Moscow was still a forest

a century ago, the russian empire's most dangerous indigenous critic learned firsthand that every Moscow peace deal is only a piece of paper. his memoir reads as if it were written this year endrussia.today/p/zeki-velid...

Enlightening, as always.

a century ago, the russian empire's most dangerous indigenous critic learned firsthand that every Moscow peace deal is only a piece of paper. the Kremlin has been trying to erase his name from history books since. endrussia.today/p/zeki-velid...

the Kremlin spent eighty years erasing these stories, but Eastern and parts of Northern Europe didn’t quietly accept Moscow’s occupation after WWII — they resisted for decades. endrussia.today/p/resistance...

Rick is live now with @maksymeristavi.com - the author of Russian Colonialism 101. #NAFO #DonateToUkraine #boostUA #UkrainianView

a unique window has opened. we are witnessing Ukraine’s biggest breakthrough since 2023 and a rare chance to end this. frontline voices and researchers warn: 4–5 months before the other side adapts. the moment to mobilise is now.

russia did not save Europe from Nazism. It started World War II as Hitler’s ally, used non-russian soldiers as cannon fodder, and reopened Nazi camps to keep killing under the label of “denazification.” the May 9th parade exists to bury all of that open.substack.com/pub/maksymer...

today it’s putin, tomorrow it’s someone else. if you want to consolidate yourself as russian ruler, you maximise a particular culture, within a particular value system. and then you become a new putin, a new stalin, a new tsar. learn more: maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/russian-em...

pride flag went up over the Kyiv neighborhood which was heavily bombed in the latest russian attack. no imperial terror can stop this tradition by my Kyiv Pride family of starting every pride month in Ukraine. Kyiv, unbreakable, proud and fighting for a better future for all of us

how WWII still triggers russian imperial reflex. ask any russian what they “liberated” in that war — and watch the aggressive imperial denial kick in. maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/russian-em...

thank you to all of you ensuring no Ukrainian feels like they resist alone. happy vyshyvanka day 💛💙

i have seen some of you posting Dmytro’s pictures, a 23-year-old victim of recent russian attack on a residential building in Kyiv, which took away 24 lives. but did you know that Dmytro was also emerging, yet already beloved, drag artist named Mistique Grimes?

May 18 is the Remembrance Day of the forced deportation of the Crimean Tatars from Crimea in 1944, a genocide known as Sürgünlik in Crimean Tatar, meaning “exile” Qırımlı history is one of great beauty and resilience. Excellent essay by @maksymeristavi.com Ukraine won’t be free until Qırım is free

show it to russian culture fan. they are missing out on its best masterpiece.

"Because expansion isn’t a policy choice for empires — it’s a life cycle, a necessity." — Maksim Eristavi 👓⬇️

"I used to think of russia as just a normal country having a bad decade. it took me years — and losing a home — to finally recognise a 500-year-old empire in it having a typical century. in my latest essay I explain what and how exactly changed my mind" maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/how-i-got-...

Add this to the mix, also being the core origin of the modern Russian mafia state, but its basics already running for a century, probably more, reaching back to the earliest Gulag times: bsky.app/profile/wilh... #1/2

on this remembrance day for the Sürgünlik genocide, resharing one of my favorite essays i ever wrote: on how what happened to Qırım-Crimea during the first half of the 20th century can tell you almost everything you need to know about russian colonialism maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/russian-co...

understanding those two things took me also a long time but after it finally clicked sometimes after you started calling it Russian _colonialism_ made understanding of our own history between the end of WWII and 1989 so much clearer. We were just another colony!

i used to think of russia as just a normal country having a bad decade. it took me years — and losing a home — to finally recognise a 500-year-old empire in it having a typical century. in my latest essay i explain what and how exactly changed my mind open.substack.com/pub/maksymer...

"This is a disruption of the russian fossil fuel industry at a scale no climate summit has ever achieved."