maksym.eristavi
@maksymeristavi.com
#RussianColonialism storyteller-in-chief. author of award-winning “Russian Colonialism 101”🪆🪓
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maksym.eristavi
@maksymeristavi.com
· Nov 26
this is the most important thing in my life i’ve done so far. let me share with you all you need to know about the “Russian Colonialism 101” illustrated guidebook.
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“any kind of life as a colony within an empire, it really sucks, because that’s what empires do: they get the best of the resources that they could get out of you. they erase your identity.”
@dim0kq.bsky.social
@dim0kq.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
“any kind of life as a colony within an empire, it really sucks, because that’s what empires do: they get the best of the resources that they could get out of you. they erase your identity.”
@dim0kq.bsky.social
@dim0kq.bsky.social
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🔴 UPD: Six people were killed, and at least 14 were injured as a result of the Russian attack on Kyiv overnight.
🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
🔴 UPD: Six people were killed, and at least 14 were injured as a result of the Russian attack on Kyiv overnight.
🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...
🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...
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Russia carried out a massive overnight strike on Kyiv and the region, damaging homes and civilian infrastructure.
Six people were killed and 13 injured.
Strikes also hit Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, and Cherkasy regions.
In total, russia used 22 missiles and more than 460 drones.
Six people were killed and 13 injured.
Strikes also hit Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, and Cherkasy regions.
In total, russia used 22 missiles and more than 460 drones.
November 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Russia carried out a massive overnight strike on Kyiv and the region, damaging homes and civilian infrastructure.
Six people were killed and 13 injured.
Strikes also hit Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, and Cherkasy regions.
In total, russia used 22 missiles and more than 460 drones.
Six people were killed and 13 injured.
Strikes also hit Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, and Cherkasy regions.
In total, russia used 22 missiles and more than 460 drones.
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⚡️ Ukraine offers to share its anti-drone warfare experience with Lithuania amid growing Russian air threats.
Ukraine Proposes Sharing Anti-Drone Experience With Lithuania Amid Rising Russian Air Threats
As part of a commitment to defense collaboration, Hnatov updated Premeneckas on the air situation and ongoing threats to Ukrainian airspace from Russian forces.
united24media.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
⚡️ Ukraine offers to share its anti-drone warfare experience with Lithuania amid growing Russian air threats.
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In 2015 I accompanied my boss to #YESForum in Kyiv, where @maksymeristavi.com interviewed him. I was impressed by this young journalist and have been following him ever since. I am ordering his book #RussianColonialism101 today and I hope you will too! linktr.ee/russiancolon...
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November 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
In 2015 I accompanied my boss to #YESForum in Kyiv, where @maksymeristavi.com interviewed him. I was impressed by this young journalist and have been following him ever since. I am ordering his book #RussianColonialism101 today and I hope you will too! linktr.ee/russiancolon...
across half a century and several occupied nations, ordinary people answered russian colonial rule the only way left to them — by setting their own bodies on fire so their warning about the empire travels through time. my latest essay. please support it.
maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/resistance...
maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/resistance...
resistance to russian imperialism you did not know existed.
the surviving letters of the resistance that tell us more about russia that we could imagine.
maksymeristavi.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
across half a century and several occupied nations, ordinary people answered russian colonial rule the only way left to them — by setting their own bodies on fire so their warning about the empire travels through time. my latest essay. please support it.
maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/resistance...
maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/resistance...
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Today while walking in my garden I remembered the words of my friend from Kherson: "I can't walk in my garden. I am scared that I may die".
For me walking in my garden is relaxing.
For her walking in her garden can be a death sentence because of Russian petal mines.
We both live in Europe.
#Ukraine
For me walking in my garden is relaxing.
For her walking in her garden can be a death sentence because of Russian petal mines.
We both live in Europe.
#Ukraine
October 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Today while walking in my garden I remembered the words of my friend from Kherson: "I can't walk in my garden. I am scared that I may die".
For me walking in my garden is relaxing.
For her walking in her garden can be a death sentence because of Russian petal mines.
We both live in Europe.
#Ukraine
For me walking in my garden is relaxing.
For her walking in her garden can be a death sentence because of Russian petal mines.
We both live in Europe.
#Ukraine
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October 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Today we mark day 29. In almost 31h we advanced with +5$ ❤️🩹.
I'll be honest now, the way we're advancing now we will finish this fundraiser next year or we give up. We're supported only by a few friends & they can't carry all the weight alone.
Please RT!
PP: [email protected]
#Ukraine #NAFO #FNDRUA
I'll be honest now, the way we're advancing now we will finish this fundraiser next year or we give up. We're supported only by a few friends & they can't carry all the weight alone.
Please RT!
PP: [email protected]
#Ukraine #NAFO #FNDRUA
October 24, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Today we mark day 29. In almost 31h we advanced with +5$ ❤️🩹.
I'll be honest now, the way we're advancing now we will finish this fundraiser next year or we give up. We're supported only by a few friends & they can't carry all the weight alone.
Please RT!
PP: [email protected]
#Ukraine #NAFO #FNDRUA
I'll be honest now, the way we're advancing now we will finish this fundraiser next year or we give up. We're supported only by a few friends & they can't carry all the weight alone.
Please RT!
PP: [email protected]
#Ukraine #NAFO #FNDRUA
see you tonight in Hamburg. my final lecture this year.
many thanks to fluctoplasma and @ukrindeu.bsky.social for landing me such a cool spot for my lecture on russian colonialism. i am bringing the story i have shared just once before. hamburg, see you soon 🪆🪓
www.fluctoplasma.com/program/colo...
www.fluctoplasma.com/program/colo...
October 24, 2025 at 6:29 AM
see you tonight in Hamburg. my final lecture this year.
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I have one of these shirts (the one in Ukrainian). They’re very cool.
October 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I have one of these shirts (the one in Ukrainian). They’re very cool.
many thanks to fluctoplasma and @ukrindeu.bsky.social for landing me such a cool spot for my lecture on russian colonialism. i am bringing the story i have shared just once before. hamburg, see you soon 🪆🪓
www.fluctoplasma.com/program/colo...
www.fluctoplasma.com/program/colo...
October 23, 2025 at 6:20 AM
many thanks to fluctoplasma and @ukrindeu.bsky.social for landing me such a cool spot for my lecture on russian colonialism. i am bringing the story i have shared just once before. hamburg, see you soon 🪆🪓
www.fluctoplasma.com/program/colo...
www.fluctoplasma.com/program/colo...
October 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
October 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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🔴 Russia tortured to death two 16-year-olds, Danylo Dakhov and Pavlo Hrymak, from Melitopol.
Deputy Foreign Minister Mariana Betsa reported this at the UN General Assembly on September 4.
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Deputy Foreign Minister Mariana Betsa reported this at the UN General Assembly on September 4.
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October 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
🔴 Russia tortured to death two 16-year-olds, Danylo Dakhov and Pavlo Hrymak, from Melitopol.
Deputy Foreign Minister Mariana Betsa reported this at the UN General Assembly on September 4.
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Deputy Foreign Minister Mariana Betsa reported this at the UN General Assembly on September 4.
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stop by @CORRECTIV Verlag booth at this year’s @buchmesse.de for an autograph session and pick up freshly-printed german translation of my Russian Colonialism 101 guidebook 🪆🪓
shop.correctiv.org/Russischer-K...
shop.correctiv.org/Russischer-K...
October 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
stop by @CORRECTIV Verlag booth at this year’s @buchmesse.de for an autograph session and pick up freshly-printed german translation of my Russian Colonialism 101 guidebook 🪆🪓
shop.correctiv.org/Russischer-K...
shop.correctiv.org/Russischer-K...
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The list of russian crimes is endless. There can be no lasting peace without justice. #MakeRussiaPay
October 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The list of russian crimes is endless. There can be no lasting peace without justice. #MakeRussiaPay
there’s no random evil in r*zzia kidnapping local kids during invasions and occupations. it is a well-tested warfare playbook that the empire successfully deployed for generations.
please read, share and support my work on this newsletter if you find it important
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please read, share and support my work on this newsletter if you find it important
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October 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
there’s no random evil in r*zzia kidnapping local kids during invasions and occupations. it is a well-tested warfare playbook that the empire successfully deployed for generations.
please read, share and support my work on this newsletter if you find it important
open.substack.com/pub/maksymer...
please read, share and support my work on this newsletter if you find it important
open.substack.com/pub/maksymer...
vitriol that @efdavies.bsky.social faced for exposing for German media the russian special ops infiltration of Western academia is nasty. also a sign that russia hates for this story to take roots in the mainstream conversation.
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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October 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
vitriol that @efdavies.bsky.social faced for exposing for German media the russian special ops infiltration of Western academia is nasty. also a sign that russia hates for this story to take roots in the mainstream conversation.
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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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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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October 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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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Some reflections on Russo-centrism in academia, colonialism and how Western scholars failed Ukraine:
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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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October 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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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honoured to be invited back to the world’s largest book fair, @buchmesse.de, to talk about russian colonial warfare and which stories from the past can prepare Europe to defend itself from russian imperialism today. stop by the Ukrainian National Stand!
www.goethe.de/ins/ua/de/ve...
www.goethe.de/ins/ua/de/ve...
October 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
honoured to be invited back to the world’s largest book fair, @buchmesse.de, to talk about russian colonial warfare and which stories from the past can prepare Europe to defend itself from russian imperialism today. stop by the Ukrainian National Stand!
www.goethe.de/ins/ua/de/ve...
www.goethe.de/ins/ua/de/ve...
child theft isn’t just a war crime that happens during russian colonial invasions; it’s part of the strategic objective that russian military operations are designed around. read more: maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/russia-has...
October 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
child theft isn’t just a war crime that happens during russian colonial invasions; it’s part of the strategic objective that russian military operations are designed around. read more: maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/russia-has...