“Over the past 25 years the Russian authorities have consistently pursued a policy that has contributed to the displacement of non-Russian languages from the public and educational spheres.” “This is absolutely a Soviet practice; in fact, it is a re-Sovietisation.”

Students have gathered in front of Ilia State University to protest. 📷 Ivane Nazgaidze

in another entirely illegal move, the nihilistic totalitarianism of the Georgian Dream continues its rampage, here against #Georgia's most successful research university. Yes, it is a regime, and yes, this is illegal and totally illegitimate. open.substack.com/pub/ganatleb...

When memory is punished, and aggression rewarded — that is moral failure.

What’s the worth of medals, anyway: one look into the Olympic shop and evidently, the Olympic business has no issue memorising German 1936 Nazi Olympics, while it continues to suppress as too ‘political’ memory practices expressed by athletes from societies who resist imperial and genocidal violence

what a shameful decision

Shameful — yet not shocking — that the IOC banned Vladyslav Heraskevych from wearing a helmet portraying Ukrainian athletes whose lives were claimed by russia. Why is telling the stories of athletes who will never compete in the Olympics labelled "political"? Full support for Vladyslav.

This exactly by Elsa Court: "Praising [Ukrainians'] resilience is like standing on the shore, watching a person struggle not to drown in a riptide. Instead of sending a lifeboat to save them, you praise them for being such a strong swimmer." kyivindependent.com/we-need-to-s...

Reminds me of this older report on religious funders, already showing the convergence of the US and Russia in the space of active undermining of sexual and procreative health and freedoms, and I urge more people to read it and understand the scale of the problem www.epfweb.org/sites/defaul...

It is noteworthy that the Heritage Foundation provides funding for research in political philosophy and ethics

I wrote on Russia's cyber-attack against Poland's energy system in December, why it suggests a more aggressive Russian approach to disrupting critical infrastructure in Europe, and why the involvement of the FSB, Russia's security service, is bad news. www.economist.com/europe/2026/...

"Russia helped Iran build one of the most advanced internet-control systems ever deployed, centred on deep packet inspection capable of throttling apps, blocking VPNs and tracking protest organisers in real time." www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

So agree, it’s a crucial read. Majorly appreciate how the book identifies different kinds of power that dissenting individuals and movements come to oppose, and eventually, defy

This might be of interest thefirethesetimes.com/2023/02/17/p...

The Russian sect known as the Anastasians promotes an anti-democratic, patriarchal ideology. For several years, its colonies have been quietly emerging across Poland. @vsquare.bsky.social established that the movement in Poland was organized by a Putin sympathizer who bought land for his compounds.

Uhlová went undercover as a migrant worker with a hidden camera and captured her worst experience on a German farm that paid East-European workers €6, half of the legal minimum hourly wage. This East-West exploitation is investigated in the documentary "Limits of Europe" share.google/FxcFJzsTG8Qx...

Indeed, Czech journalist Saša Uhlová argues that the ‘iron wage curtain’, maintaining stark economic East-West inequalities through the systemic reliance of Western industries on exploited East-European labour, is one of the biggest threats to social cohesion and stability in today’s Europe

Remarkable East-West disparities: the popularity of the EU would be much higher if people from Europe’s East would not be so unequal and exploited within it. Then populists of all kind, the far right and Russian propaganda would not have such a chance to fuel real-life and very material grievances

the questions the story raises are uncomfortable: Why the hell aren't we doing anything to stop Ru? Why is Europe not introducing a sky shield over Ukrainian cities? Why are we going through the motions of doomed "peace talks" instead of punishing Ru's warmongering?

When Ru tried a similar campaign in 2022-23, journalists were calling me non-stop, essentially to ask when Ukrainians would crack and demand their govt surrender to Ru. By now, the West has realized Ukr won't surrender and now our media doesn't cover the story as much, maybe because...

“Explosions, explosions, explosions—it’s impossible to live. You can’t sleep, you can’t eat, you can’t cook. I’m old. Where would I run, when my legs hurt so much I can’t? I was just walking, then suddenly fell, and that was it. They decided to send me to the hospital for my legs and evacuate me.”

She never fails to impress.

thank you so much!!!!

For perspective, this is me standing next to a Shahed drone, one of the attack drones that Russia throws at Ukraine each day, sometimes by the hundreds, oftentimes by the dozens, both in frontline areas and on civilian infrastructure in the rear. They can carry up to 90 kilos of explosives.

Yeah, but let's talk to Putin to see whether he's willing to work with Europe

Ukraine signed two such peace agreements after the occupation of Crimea. Russia violated both and launched a full-scale invasion. The question is whether this peace agreement will be able to stop the war.

The meeting in Abu Dhabi has ended, and I am being asked about progress in the peace talks. The question is not whether the parties will sign a peace agreement.

Another round of peace talks took place tonight. The results are on the map. Rocket and drone explosions in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, and many other cities all night. In the morning, electricity and heat were out in many areas.

🔴 In Zaporizhzhia, Russia struck a maternity hospital. Six people were injured. Source: Zap. Governor The gap between two realities widens each day: there is what happens on the ground in Ukraine - the uninterrupted breach of International Law - & the illusion of a diplomatic solution in the West.

Necropolitics amid genocide: the US is aiding Russia in deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. Article II of the Genocide Convention

EU’s Kallas: Western pressure on Ukraine risks helping Russia win without fighting. She says the EU must demand Moscow cut its weapons and face accountability for crimes. euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/02/e...

Fascinating peace on critical art of Saule Suleimenova @ Times of Central Asia. She is among the era-defining artist. timesca.com/unbent-unbow...

Members of the Kyrgyzstan Democratic Movement protesting against Soviet use of force in the Baltic states, January 21, 1991. www.rferl.org/a/2341465.html

This is such an insightful thread. Glad to learn about Joshua Wen-kwei Liao and appreciating how you’re engaging with him as a political philosopher because he is a political activist. Resonates so much with how we’ve written with Selbi Durdiyeva about dissidents in Central Asia and Europe’s East…

Please chip in for winter warmth for the students at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv Uni! gofund.me/eba202aac

A significant story for those following the quiet war of position being waged by the US, EU, Russia, and China over energy security and supply in SE Europe and the Balkans. www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Here’s a direct link for all who’d like to read our text, that is a result of an immensely meaningful and reparative cross-disciplinary and transregional collaboration among scholars from Europe’s East and Central Asia. It’s open access, freely accessible to all www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Good to hear! In the coauthor team, we are so glad the paper is being taught with in a wide range of courses across IR, Philosophy, Decolonial and Gender Studies to Journalism.. It gives us hope that the much needed long-overdue shifts toward more substantiated and just knowledge making will follow

What Kremlin doesn’t want you to see. Nearly 4 years after the start of the full-scale invasion, Russia has utterly failed to achieve its stated objectives while sustaining losses not seen since WW2. Now using Washington to try to get what it couldn’t on the battlefield. www.csis.org/analysis/rus...

Russia offers cash bonuses, frees prisoners and lures foreigners to replenish its troops in Ukraine. Many foreigners are Africans, who complain of being duped into signing up to fight by recruiters promising jobs. apnews.com/article/russ...

Roman Goncharenko asks on Facebook what the West's responses would be if, instead of the people in Kyiv, those in Paris, London or Berlin were being made to freeze to death by the destruction of the energy infrastructure amid harshest winter. …and many of us are asking the same questions with him

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is always hard for me. I lost most of my family across quite a few countries. Fascists in America & Russia demand Ukraine give up the very land my grandfather fought to free from Nazism. I have no words to describe my rage. I miss my grandparents so much.

On the devastating impact of the intertwined Western and Eastern legacies of imperialism in Europe’s East plus the lack of genocide prevention: some of the Ukrainians who survived the genocidal terror of the German Nazi occupation are now dying under yet another genocidal Russian invasion of Ukraine

Nazis worked with Swedish race biologists, who studied the Sami & Torne- Finns in an attempt to prove their inferiority as 'yellow' races and invalidate citzenship. Swedish psychiatry and related medical abuses are a product of the historical relationship between Nazi and Swedish geneticists.

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, when we honour all victims of the Nazis, including Roma and Sinti. The Romani saying “dikh he na bister”, look and do not forget, is especially apt right now as DHS rampages through US cities on a mission of terror and ethnic cleansing. Look and do not forget.

In April, all three of us will be coming together for a Left Renewal webinar to discuss our critical perspectives further. Many thanks to @danielmang.bsky.social and @bengidley.bsky.social for the invitation, more details coming soon and in the meantime, this blog is worth following: leftrenewal.org

On this Holocaust Memorial Day, I’m re-sharing our text that received a lot of silence in Germany as it is told from inconvenient perspectives. Yet, like the Jewish intellectuals we quote, we too believe there needs to be a different debate than that which flatters - or centres - German feelings

I wanted to start a podcast ages ago. But it takes a village (literally!) to make one. YurtJurt is a dream come true project that unites the coolest voices from Northern & Central Asia to speak up of our decolonial journey. Please share! We are hitting a milestone with this first season ❤️

Thank you for inviting me on YurtJurt for such a meaningful transregional conversation. It rarely happens that the questions get so inspiring that we get lost in time and realise we've been in deep thought for 1,5 hours. It's an honour to contribute to the decolonial treasure trove that YurtJurt is

Our former and current Board Members Assel Tutumlu and Tereza Hendl were on the panel Looking Back, Moving Forward: Interdisciplinary Decolonial Dialogues on Central Asia and Eastern Europe at the CEEShub Conference. There will soon be a special forum published from these conversations of interest