I moved this fight away

On that note if u got spare money on Russian cards there are Ru trans girls fundraising to urgently change their passport gender marker so they dont get drafted

The case with Boris Johnson proves that Westerners and Eastern Europeans (leftists in particular) need to be better at communication. Message to Ukrainians: Maybe many of us don't really want to go into the subject, but Brits have MANY reasons to disrespect Boris Johnson and want him to resign. In the end, despite the image of a "friend of Ukraine", Johnson is a bright representative of the Tories. Ask yourself: who has allowed and encouraged the export of corrupt Russian money to Britain and the rise of the Russian oligarchy - particularly in London (where Johnson was a mayor) - all these years? Maybe the left wing of Labor? But no - it was the Conservative Party that stood up for business and was only happy about Russian bank accounts and real estate in Britain!

Message to the Brits: The specificity of Britain's problems is that they are often very British. The Brits themselves - including the left - are usually not able to explain their dissatisfaction with the authorities even to people from the nearest European countries, not to mention Eastern European ones. Therefore, it isn't necessary to consider Ukrainians by default as supporters of right-wing populists.

And yes. The fact that we want a neo-liberal, populist, Islamophobic and corrupt official to remain in power because of his relatively adequate policy towards the Russian aggressor says more about the quality of European policy than about Johnson himself.

vladimir putin’s party “united russia”, the one in power rn, just launched a telegram bot for denunciations where citizens are asked to share info about “fake information about the russian armed forces” — the latest law the authorities use to imprison and put pressure on people protesting the russian invasion of ukraine. hundreds of criminal cases based on this charge are already active.

https://t.me/er_stopfake_bot

the telegram bot asks you to provide personal info such as your name and email, but obviously accepts any fake info.

wouldn’t it be just awful if hundreds of people started spamming the bot with all kind of meme shit to make the bot lag? like k pop pictures, wikipedia articles, song lyrics? i think that would be just horrible. would make it pretty hard for them to find any info on anti war activists in all that chaos. i really hope that wouldn’t happen!

As the war progressed, references to other wars waged by post-Soviet Russia became more frequent. In particular, many people remember the First and Second Chechen Wars. If you don't speak Russian, quite possibly, you havent heard about these events before at all. And this is not surprising.

The First Chechen war happened during the presidency of Boris Yeltsin, and the "progressive West" paid ZERO attention to it. While the war was going on, in 1995, Bill Clinton happily embraced Yeltsin and laughing at his speeches to reporters. Everyone rejoiced at the new "democratic" Russia (in fact, no - neoliberal and oligarchic), which was defeated in the Cold War and became another market for Western goods.

The Second Chechen war also began under Yeltsin, and continued under Putin. And although it began with the invasion of Chechen separatists into Dagestan, it was accompanied by inhuman war crimes against the civilian population by federal troops (see the Novye Aldy massacre). At this time, George Bush Jr. had already happily given his hand to Putin and was in the mood for friendship with him (as far as possible in international relations). In turn, "socialist" Tony Blair "expressed concern" about the situation in Chechnya, but agreed to attend the premiere of the opera "War and Peace" at the Mariinsky Theatre.

Bush used the ‘win the war against terrorism’ card when supporting Putin in Chechnya.

Basically the only reason they justified the war was that Itchkeria is a muslim country.

I wouldn't say so. It seems to me that there are several reasons why the West was calm about the Chechen war (especially the first phase, which took place long before 9/11):

1) US (especially them) and European countries saw in capitalist Russia a trading partner that allowed them to import their goods, had clients (oligarchs) who bought European and American real estate and luxury, and most importantly, was a field for potential Western investors and owners who could buy shares of factories that haven't yet collapsed (but the West was not lucky with this). It wasn't profitable to quarrel over the Chechnya after the Cold War.

2) Chechnya was considered one of the many internal problems of post-Soviet Russia - along with hyperinflation, high unemployment and organized crime.

3) At that time, another and larger war was going on in Europe - in the Balkans, so the Chechen wars (again, especially the First one) were simply erased from the agenda.

A thread

Highly advise Russian speakers to check out Memorial's materials on Crimean Tatars too

david jenkins looking at the skeleton stabbing the heart on blackbeard's flag and going "that happened because blackbeard had a really bad breakup with his boyfriend" is the best thing to happen to screenwriting in decades

hard to swallow pills:

Ребята из России, если вы вдруг не знаете, что делать и как вовлечься в антивоенный активизм, напишите мне, давайте обсудим. Есть много вариантов, даже ещё остались относительно безопасные!

Всем советую зафолловить Антивоенный больничный:

Twitter https://twitter.com/stranabolna

Telegram https://t.me/stranabolna

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/antivoenny_bolnichny/

Докса:

Twitter https://twitter.com/doxa_journal

Telegram https://t.me/doxajournal

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/doxa_journal/

Рассылка https://marbled-visitor-c6d.notion.site/DOXA-7d28ec2e2eaf4af790e4080187b50971

Студенты против войны:

https://t.me/studentprotiv

Передачи для задержанных:

Москва https://t.me/Peredachi

Питер https://t.me/Peredachi_SPb

ОВД-такси (мск) https://t.me/ovdtaxi

Социальная альтернатива:

Telegram https://t.me/socialistnews

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/socialist.news/

Также мне очень нравится Беларусский Прамень:

Twitter https://twitter.com/pramenofanarchy

Telegram https://t.me/pramenby

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/pramenby/

Сайт https://pramen.io/ru/

Список аккаунтов и тэгов пропаганды, которые надо репортить:

Telegram https://t.me/stopbotluka

Еще есть Феминистское Антивоенное Сопротивление, они пока одни из самых крупных+подробно расписывают стратегии

Безопасный Репост для тех, кто не в России

Эти ребята занимаются финансовой помощью+эвакуацией и информационной поддержкой людей в Украине, им можно донатить

И если вы готовы быть преподавателем-волонтером, то эта инициатива (от преимущественно ррусскоязычных преподов) предлагает бесплатные курсы/индивидуальные занятия по иностранным языкам для украинцев

https://instagram.com/speak.up.for.peace?utm_medium=copy_link

Ukrainian humor these days:

Translation: Fucking thank you.

Then a reply:

- maybe not a very relevant question, but why two sinks in the kitchen?

- just in case one of them will be smashed by a missile

i saw a version of this with the caption:

“The vital military infrastructure object ‘Sink’ has been denazified by a precision strike in Kharkiv”

René Charles Edmond HIS (1877-1960) - All Saints

when will it end

some new developments on this:

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