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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 22h

⚡️ The Kremlin just gave Putin the power to send up to 2 million reservists into combat abroad, including Ukraine.

The Kremlin Gives Putin Free Hand to Send Up to 2 Million Reservists Into Battles Abroad

The Kremlin has eased restrictions on reservist deployment, allowing their use in Russia’s war against Ukraine, according to the Institute for the Study of War.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 7d

Ru is thoroughly fascist right now. “What awaits Russia in future? War awaits Russia. We must turn towards war. It is woven into the pattern of our destiny. The question ‘war or no war?’ does not exist. … War is a spiritual metaphysical phenomenon...
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Putin's philosopher exalts war

“Russia’s War” is the latest literary offering from Russia’s favourite crank philosopher, Alexander Dugin. It is not a book about Russia’s war against Ukraine. It is a book about wars and warriors as ...

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AGF 🎧 poemproducer @poemproducer.bsky.social · 4d

"Colonial ideology is at the root of Russia’s occupation of Ukraine’s territories, but the problems do not end there. Russia finds allies among dictators around the world and note Russia’s destructive influence on neighbouring countries in Central Asia, South Caucasus & Eastern Europe."

The RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social · 5d

Here is a link for the download a free electronic copy of this important book
indigenous-vision.com

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The RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social · 4d

Deadline for submissions is Nov 15, 2025. We are keen on a range of presentation, panel, workshop and art formats and welcome new ideas. In regard to panels, we prioritise transregional and global debates and dialogues

For more details, see the full call
ruta-association.org/conference/r...

Rooted knowledges and dialogues for change - Ruta

For many years, canonized expertise on the RUTA region(s) has been produced from the outside, in particular through a Western academic gaze. This gaze has

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The RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social · 4d

How do our research and art practices change when they are rooted in a place, centering the lived and embodied experiences of its people? And what do such knowledges and art mean for those who make them, those who learn from them, and for the ways we engage with the world?

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The RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social · 4d

Our 2026 RUTA conference will be exploring the role of embodied knowledges and knowledges rooted in the places we conduct research about. We will discuss how the making of knowledge, art and cultural heritage changes when it is grounded in places and communities and which possibilities this opens

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 5d

Good to see in print this text that Maria Sonevytsky read at our RUTA conference in Ukraine this Summer, on the meaning of house keys for Crimean Tatars following 1940s Soviet deportations and genocide under Stalin, and the Palestinians since the Nakba www.londonukrainianreview.org/posts/everyd...

Everyday Amulets: On House Keys from Crimea to Palestine and Beyond

House keys recur in the family stories of both Crimean Tatars and Palestinians displaced from their respective homelands in the 1940s, and in accounts of Ukrainian citizens fleeing Russian invasion si...

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The RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social · 4d

Alexis Scott, a scholar of Kyrgyz heritage, is interested in decolonial discourses in Kyrgyzstan and across the RUTA region(s). She joined the RUTA Communications Committee in 2024 and is committed to the fostering of cross-regional solidarities and more inclusive and equitable academic spaces.

The RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social · 4d

Gražina Bielousova is an anthropologist working at the intersection of race, religion and gender in East Europe, with a focus on leftist feminists under Russian threat, especially in Ukraine. She aims to amplify voices marginalized by dominant scholarship and strengthen RUTA’s presence in the Baltic

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The RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social · 4d

Since our last conference and RUTA elections, Assel Tutumlu and Epp Annus stepped down from the RUTA Board, while staying active in the community. We sincerely thank them for their contributions and welcome new elected Board Members: Gražina Bielousova and Alexis Scott to our RUTA team. About them…

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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 5d

"(...)the narrative construction of Russia as a victim, draws attention from what Russia does, by way of creating a false image of a threat towards Russian territorial integrity and sovereignty"

Excellent analysis by @katri.bsky.social and @atolvin.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reconstructing Kremlin strategic deception: the logic of disinformation narratives during the first phase of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Official Kremlin rhetoric about the ‘special military operation’ produces clashing, often contrasting interpretations of reality. This article applies perspectives from Soviet ideological language ...

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 5d

An extremely proud day for Hungarians. I just really hope Orbán’s proxies won’t launch a smear campaign, since Krasznahorkai is an outspoken critic of contemporary fascism, far-right politics, and Viktor Orbán himself.

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The RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social · 5d

Latest YurtJurt podcast

Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 12d

This week is rich in terms of podcasts!
Tune in here for the new episode of YurtJurt w the one & only Asem Zhapisheva!!!

She’s the most inspiring political voices of the new generation in Kazakhstan. I think this is one of the best podcasts in our series. Tune in! It’s so rich!

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The RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social · 5d

Here is a link for the download a free electronic copy of this important book
indigenous-vision.com

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 6d

Skautský Institut is a wonderful place for an important discussion on the liberation and deoccupation of Crimea

Lina from Crimea @linafromcrimea.bsky.social · 6d

Tomorrow at 7 PM, I'll be at Skautský Institut in Prague 🇨🇿 to discuss Crimea – the current situation and our history.

We'll also screen Rooted, a documentary about Ukraine's national communities filmed by Post Bellum Ukraine.

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Franziska Davies @efdavies.bsky.social · 7d

But Miller is not anyone. Until 2022, he was among the internationally most renowned historians of imperial Russia, a respected colleague in Western academia.
Some reflections on Russo-centrism in academia, colonialism and how Western scholars failed Ukraine:
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Our colleague, the Kremlin apologist

Until Russia's full-scale invasion, Russian historian Alexei Miller was highly regarded in Western academia. Reflections on Russo-Centrism, colonialism and how Western scholars failed Ukraine.

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Franziska Davies @efdavies.bsky.social · 7d

Russia is seeking to legitimise its genocidal war against Ukraine through the construction of historical narratives. Among those supporting this effort is historian Alexei Miller, a professor of history in St. Petersburg and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Jan Rovny @jrovny.bsky.social · 8d

Many are concerned about the return of Babiš to the top of Czech politics. While the results of this weekend's Czech legislative election poses its concerns, I am an optimist. I think Babiš's victory is rather Pyrrhic. Here are some thoughts: blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

The 2025 Czech election – Andrej Babiš’s Pyrrhic victory

Andrej Babiš’s ANO won the 2025 Czech election on 3–4 October. Yet as Jan Rovny explains, Babiš will find it challenging to form a stable government.

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 10d

Arrived in Prague and sat down to sort through my ballot

Me: these are the worst elections I remember…

My mother: the worst elections are when there is a one party system and you can’t vote for anything else, but you have to turn up and vote anyway, because they surveil you

Me: ok, fair enough

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Erica Marat 🇺🇦 @ericamarat.bsky.social · 10d

My feed today

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Tata Chemia @tatach.bsky.social · 15d

Join Georgian immigrants on 4️⃣th October protest✊🏼 if you are nearby!

ძალა ერთობაშია • Strength is in unity!

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16d

I'm finally looking forward to Russia's disinformation campaign no longer emailing us endless fake news videos about Moldova and Maia Sandu. Guess they won't be getting their bonuses
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pro-EU party in Moldova set to win vote mired in claims of Russian interference

The election was seen as critical for Moldova's EU path, and President Maia Sandu warned the country's future was in danger.

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 17d

‘Before Bucha, there was Abkhazia.’ 32 yrs later, survivors of Russia’s war are waiting for justice. Women speak of systemic rape, describing patterns of perpetration typical across all documented Russian occupations, that remain unaccounted for and still ongoing
www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/...

‘Before Bucha in Ukraine, there was Abkhazia in Georgia’

Thirty years after the war in Georgia’s breakaway territory of Abkhazia, victims are still waiting for justice.

www.aljazeera.com

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Tata Chemia @tatach.bsky.social · 18d

32 years since the fall of Sokhumi.

These are just the part of russian warcrimes committed back from 1992/93 .
This is what russia did in our town in Gagra. There are so many more 💔

Never forget, never forgive!
Abkhazia is Georgia!

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 18d

🇬🇪 On Sept 27, 1993, Abkhaz separatists, backed by Russian forces, North Caucasus fighters & mercenaries, captured the city. By Sept 30, they occupied all of Abkhazia.

5,738 Georgian civilians were killed. Nearly 300,000 Georgians were forced from their homes.

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