human rights defender | editor-in-chief, @ukrainer_en | advisor to president, @penukraine | head of expert advisory council, @souspilnist

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Can you liberate a people if your army arrived to subjugate them?
On May 8, 1945, Europe declared victory in WWII. But not all of the victorious armies brought freedom or liberation. On this Victory Day, we remember not only victory. We also remember those for whom the end of World War II meant life under a different totalitarian regime.
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On May 8, 1945, Europe declared victory in WWII. But not all of the victorious armies brought freedom or liberation. On this Victory Day, we remember not only victory. We also remember those for whom the end of World War II meant life under a different totalitarian regime.
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«У цей день пам’яті згадаймо не лише перемогу». 81 рік тому завершилася Друга світова війна. Тоді вдалося перемогти нацизм, але ще один режим продовжив існувати — Україна була окупована совєтами. Як цей день памʼяті безпосередньо повʼязаний із сучасними подіями — розповідає правозахисник, головний редактор Ukraїner International Крістофер Етвуд.
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Well-meaning supporters of labor rights sometimes thoughtlessly share Soviet imagery or praise the Soviet Union. This positive perception is often rooted in a romanticized, theoretical concept of the USSR. We explain why the Soviet Union was actually opposed to labor rights.
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⚡A conversation on collective memory, the universal aspiration for freedom, and the growing solidarity between communities that have endured systemic oppression. 🔗 ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts… Our Speakers are: ▪️ @terrelljstarr – Independent #American journalist and host of Black Diplomats, a documentary news show covering civilian life in #Ukraine ▪️ @tca1_ – Human rights and communications expert, Head of the Ukraïner International, a popular Ukrainian media 🔸Host: Volodymyr Yermolenko, a Ukrainian philosopher, president of PEN Ukraine, and the editor-in-chief of UkraineWorld. Support UkraineWorld: patreon.com/c/ukraineworld.
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bro really saw that tweet and said to himself, "i must take time out of my busy schedule of caping for russian authoritarianism to invoke the legacies of russian authoritarian thinkers." 😂😂😂
As if any of today's left thinkers approaches the intellectual caliber of Lenin, Trotsky, Luxemburg, Gramsci, Lukacs. The crises of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary ideas are interconnected and mutually amplifying.
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Donetsk is Ukraine.
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Imagine the worst winter you can remember. That is the starting point for understanding this one in Ukraine.
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Потрібно називати речі своїми іменами. Створення непридатних для життя умов — один із видів геноциду. Пояснюємо більше у відео і закликаємо вас поширювати серед іноземної авдиторії англомовну версію, яка є на сторінці @ukrainer_en.
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russia's ongoing attempts to exterminate the Ukrainian nation is genocide. The world has a legal and moral obligation to stop genocide.
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Hey @sethmeyers — I don’t know who wrote this line for you, but it sounds deeply ignorant and embarrassing. Odesa is a Ukrainian city that Russia has been relentlessly attacking for four years, killing civilians and destroying its heritage. Do better.
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the fact that she pivoted to doing russia's bidding is less shocking to me than her how blatantly she does it. ukraine defending itself has inflicted suffering on ukrainians? what?
The strategy of "bringing the war onto Russian territory" has clearly inflicted even greater suffering, particularly on ordinary Ukrainians. The humanitarian catastrophe, which primarily affects civilians, is being masked by polished propaganda. A singer who is a friend of the president even released a song claiming that even without electricity and heat, Ukrainians still have light and warmth in their souls. I've already come across several Reels on social media with negative reactions, where Ukrainians say that without meeting basic needs—when it's freezing cold, with no way to wash, cook, or stay warm—there will be no "warmth and light" inside anyone. Today, journalists from Hromadske visited an apartment in Kyiv where the indoor temperature was -5°C/23 ∘F. That's a temperature at which a person can fall asleep and never wake up. "Since last November, the building's electrical grid has been unable to cope—residents have had to literally ration electricity by the hour. And overnight into Friday, the building also suffered a fire. Now, living there has become simply impossible. Yet some people remain, with nowhere else to go. Among them is 56-year-old Valeriy Antonovych, who gets around in a wheelchair." — that's what the journalists reported about that building. There are reportedly hundreds of such high-rises these days in Kyiv. Stories are pouring in from all sides from acquaintances, relatives, and friends. Social media is exploding with accounts of life in subzero temperatures without electricity, sometimes without heat or water. Our leadership continues to blame Putin and the West—for not providing enough missiles—and keeps confirming new and further strikes deep inside Russia, which have nowhere near the same impact as those felt in Ukraine. Of course, Russia is the aggressor, and its shelling has long amounted to crimes against humanity. But many people are asking whether this strategy of transferring the war to Russia is worth the suffering endured by the Ukrainian nation. Will we ever learn the true numbers of those who die from the cold, or will they be covered up by yet another wonderful song about joy and inner light? How many people will leave the country again now, never to return? And will you condemn them for it?
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All I hear is AAVE 🤷🏿‍♂️
He was invited to give a speech at a high school for Language Week, and he delivered the entire speech in Gen Alpha slang.
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The Genocide Convention prohibits “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.” If these are not conditions to bring about physical destruction, what is?
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lemme tell you something, nobody in belgorod today had to question whether they should take cover or keep walking to work because a drone was bombing the neighborhood on their route to work. i did. and i'm not ukrainian. ffs.
A reminder to never donate to these grifters
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25h of train travel w 8h of delays — and I'm finally home. For me, the hardest massive air raids are the ones when I'm away on a work trip and my dearest are home. That's when any illusion of control disappears, and all you can do is helplessly refresh the news feed through the entire night. Preparing for cold and darkness, our energy angels gave me an unexpected gift by restoring heating in my area. They are struggling non-stop to warm all residents across the city and region. Today it's −11°C/−16°C, with repairs complicated by snow and ice. Power outages remain heavy and widespread almost everywhere. Please, please — you can help our energy Giants by donating to protect Ukraine's sky, so less russian air shit hit our energy facilities. As always, I'm asking you to support Sky Rusoriz. Every euro and dollar counts and matters. Stay warm and safe.
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Remember the Trump advisor who starred advising Lukoil in November? One of his other clients is RSL Investments Corporation for lobbying the White House on investing. Color me shocked that Trump's billionaire friend doing colonialism in Ukraine shares a lobbyist with Lukoil.
Breaking News: Ukraine awarded a bid for a lithium mining project to investors that include a billionaire friend of President Trump. nyti.ms/4sClVPq
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a friend of mine told me recently, "before the full scale invasion i used to think ukrainians don't really know how the world works. then i gave talks abroad during the full scale invasion, and now i realize we understand how the world works. americans don't."
“Dear Venezuelans, don’t be fooled, US is not your fr…” JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP. Do you really think everyone’s dumb and only you possess the ultimate truth? If you had to go through a fraction of what people you are trying to patronise went through, you wouldn’t make it for a day
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“Dear Venezuelans, don’t be fooled, US is not your fr…” JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP. Do you really think everyone’s dumb and only you possess the ultimate truth? If you had to go through a fraction of what people you are trying to patronise went through, you wouldn’t make it for a day
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