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I'm not sure I've ever seen a more powerful 'remember to vote' video.
Resonates with my sense that the moment we are living through currently is so, so privileged and so, so fragile.

Why was Salmond’s work on RT so toxic? Why was it different to, say, selling whisky in Russia, or buying Siberian gas? Well, cos it was a collaboration with the disinformation wing of an authoritarian state, with part of the apparatus of oppression, including of Indy movts.

Last night UCU Members for Ukraine held an excellent webinar on Ukraine's economy + postwar reconstruction. Next Tuesday they are holding an organising and planning meeting for UCU supporters of Ukraine, including discussion of the upcoming UCU Congress.

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The Academy of International Affairs NRW (in Bonn) is inviting applications for visiting fellowships in the field of International Politics.
I've visited the academy twice recently for workshops. They're great people to work with. This is a great opportunity!

Russia has just sentenced a 17 year old girl to 3.5 years hard labour for her anti-war social media posts. She’s the second minor to be given a real prison term for anti-Kremlin views.

What fills us with hope is that this article is now being used in teaching in various different disciplines, and we have heard from many colleagues that it opens really interesting discussions.

If you’re teaching with it, we would be very interested to hear how it’s going!

Who says political communication these days is all about social media...

⚡Latvian schools to stop teaching Russian as foreign language.

kyivindependent.com/latvia-russian…

I have a much better understanding of the 1930s nowadays than I did before 2022 despite however many books I might have read back then.

Yet another Russian citizen faces a multi year jail sentence for speaking honestly in public.

Contemporary Ukrainian painter Maria Chepeleva #WomensArt
#SundayMorning

Thank God. Late, but so much better than never.

russia: the state which ceased to place any value at all on truth, honesty and human life, while promoting a twisted notion of 'patriotism' as the only value that matters.
Skabeeva sums this up both clearly and shamelessly. Hope this clip will be played at her trial one day.

'The problem is that you have people that sit in positions of power, and they have a two-million budget. You'd think that they would call on some staff to find out if they were telling the truth about the things that they put on social media.'

Lots to think about in this interview with Taras Bilous

“These innocent people would not have been killed or injured if Ukraine had sufficient air defense capabilities. Three days ago in the Middle East, we saw what reliable protection of human lives from missiles looks like.”

“Ukraine’s partners have the necessary means to help us…

Russia’s occupying forces in Bakhmut just published on one of their Telegram channels new video footage and photos of the eastern Ukrainian city almost a year after it was destroyed and captured. The photos are stomach-churning and I admit they fill me with rage. I’ll post them…