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How quickly can you get used to anything? Yesterday, I was listening to my European colleagues talking about their plans for the New Year holidays. Today, I regret that I have not collected enough snow to melt, because the temperature is rising, and there is no running water at…
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For at least the last eight years, Russian TV has been publicly mocking the Ukrainian language. I want to try to explain the subtle meaning of this…
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Russia’s war in Ukraine is a result of a centuries-old dangerous mainstream ideology of Russian chauvinism, and of the oppression this ideology has…
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A decade-old pretext of Russian wars is the “protection of Russian speakers from oppression”. What does this “oppression” look like? In this essay, I…
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There are so many little stories that showcase Ukrainian resilience and hope in the face of the brutal Russian invasion. Here is one such story. I went…
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I haven’t been in Kyiv since winter. I wanted to go back so badly, and I managed to visit in July. Here is a long thread about my time there. No…
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If you are in Western Europe, you might ask yourself: “Why do we have to bear the costs of some conflict far away?” when thinking about Russia’s war…
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The further the war is from someone, the more mythical it seems. That’s OK. What is not OK, though, is to suggest that if the war doesn’t look the way…
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