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Marta Dyczok

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Western University, History & Political Science.

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Marta Dyczok @martadyczok.bsky.social · Apr 23

and on the good news front, my latest book with @cambridgeup.bsky.social is now Open Access, so everyone who wants to can read it here, please feel free to share: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Ukraine not ‘the’ Ukraine

Cambridge Core - European Studies - Ukraine not ‘the’ Ukraine

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Marta Dyczok @martadyczok.bsky.social · 4d

Was SO cool to find my latest book in UWO Weldon Library next to Serhii Plokhii

Marta Dyczok @martadyczok.bsky.social · 7d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Zelenskyy sounds alarm over unprecedented power outage at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Ukrainian president says Russian shelling is preventing work to restore links to grid and that one of the plant’s diesel generators has failed

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She not only read my book but made notes & highlighted!

Marta Dyczok @martadyczok.bsky.social · 11d

Tomorrow. Завтра

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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 19d

This a Russian warplane falling down after being shot down after breaching Turkey air space for 17 seconds and after it was ‘warned 10 times over the space of 5 min via an "emergency" channel and asked to change direction’ Turkey officials said then back in 2015.

Just saying.

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Marta Dyczok @martadyczok.bsky.social · 18d

Like w putin

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 18d

Oh FFS… www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 19d

Stephen Colbert: “Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel…. With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly they've never read The Children's Book If You Give a Mouse A Kimmel.”

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halyapuff.bsky.social @halyapuff.bsky.social · 19d

Oksana Senedzhuk sent to Siberia for Russia’s 15-year sentence in reprisal for pro-Ukrainian stand
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Oksana Senedzhuk sent to Siberia for Russia’s 15-year sentence in reprisal for pro-Ukrainian stand

After years of interrogations and searches because of her pro-Ukrainian views, Russia came up with a ‘treason trial’ and imprisonment in a Siberian camp, thousands of kilometres from her family

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Marta Dyczok @martadyczok.bsky.social · 18d

Inviting everyone

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 19d

They said they wanted guns to keep their freedoms. Turns out if you let them keep their guns, you can just take their freedoms

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 22d

⚡️ Putin is trying 'to trick the US' and evade sanctions, Zelensky warns.

"If you keep postponing applying sanctions any further, then the Russians will be better prepared," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Putin is trying 'to trick the US' and evade sanctions, Zelensky warns

"If you keep postponing applying sanctions any further, then the Russians will be better prepared," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

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Marta Dyczok @martadyczok.bsky.social · 29d

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Watch as 1000 years of European borders change (timelapse map)

Dailymotion video by Nick Mironenko

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Marta Dyczok @martadyczok.bsky.social · 29d

unbelievable!!!

The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 29d

⚡️US steps back from joint efforts to combat misinformation, FT reports.

The U.S. will no longer work with Europe on combating disinformation from countries including China, Iran, and Russia, the Financial Times reported on Sept. 8, citing three unnamed European officials.

US steps back from joint efforts to combat misinformation, FT reports

"Information warfare is a reality of our time, and artificial intelligence is only going to multiply the risks from that," James Rubin, former head of the Global Engagement Center (GEC), said.

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Andreas Umland @umland.bsky.social · Sep 8

Moscow’s calculation is that massive bombing can secure an unjust Russian victorious peace before Russia’s economy is so damaged that supplying the army with sufficient fuel becomes an unsolvable problem.

www.kyivpost.com/post/59656

@kyivpost.com @sceeus-ui.bsky.social @russlandwatcher.de

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Marta Dyczok @martadyczok.bsky.social · Sep 8

Marta Dyczok @martadyczok.bsky.social · Sep 7

What can be done to stop this

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 7

Breaking News: Russia unleashed the largest drone assault of the war, Ukrainian officials said, damaging a government building in Kyiv for the first time. nyti.ms/4mS66Rr

A plume of smoke in an early morning sky rises from a building. A headline reads: "Russia Unleashes Largest Drone Assault of War, Setting Government Building Ablaze." Photo by Finbarr O’Reilly for The New York Times

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · Sep 5

⚡️ Update: Ukrainian drones strike Russia's largest Rosneft refinery in Ryazan, oil depot in occupied Luhansk, Kyiv confirms.

"Gasoline (in Russia) is becoming scarce, while gas and oil are quickly running out," Ukraine's top drone warfare commander, Robert "Madyar" Brovdi, wrote.

Ukrainian drones strike Russia's largest Rosneft refinery in Ryazan, oil depot in occupied Luhansk, Kyiv confirms

"Gasoline (in Russia) is becoming scarce, while gas and oil are quickly running out," Ukraine's top drone warfare commander, Robert "Madyar" Brovdi, wrote.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · Sep 3

⚡️Update: Five injured as explosions rock Ukrainian cities in large-scale Russian drone attack.

Five people have been reported injured in Znamianka, a city in Ukraine's central Kirovohrad oblast, as Russia launched a wave of drone attacks on Ukrainian cities overnight.

Five injured as explosions rock Ukrainian cities in large-scale Russian drone attack

Russia launched a wave of drone attacks on Ukrainian cities overnight on Sept. 2-3, targeting regions in western and central Ukraine, officials reported. Five people have been reported injured.

kyivindependent.com

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Marta Dyczok @martadyczok.bsky.social · Sep 3

Spotted in Bloor West Village, Toronto

Marta Dyczok @martadyczok.bsky.social · Sep 2

Photo from my book event on Wed organized by Serhy Yekelchyk at @Univ of Victoria with @TamaraKrawchenko who I finally got to meet! Then visited Abkhazi Garden, which Serhy told me about. Tamara gave me a ride home along the ocean coast on her e-bike! Think I need to get one