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maksym.eristavi
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#RussianColonialism storyteller-in-chief. author of award-winning “Russian Colonialism 101”🪆🪓
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this is the most important thing in my life i’ve done so far. let me share with you all you need to know about the “Russian Colonialism 101” illustrated guidebook.
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honored to receive the Witold Pilecki Book Prize for Russian Colonialism 101 by @pileckiinstitut.bsky.social and @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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🔥 Ukrainian Spaces returns for Season 5 with @pravda.ua

Across six episodes, we open six windows on Ukraine: fear, belonging, language, love, resistance, and the future.

Hosted by Val Voshevska and @maksymeristavi.com
Six windows on Ukraine: Fear
"Peace is not achieved unless we undo the displacement. If there's a ceasefire, it doesn't mean much unless there are people who can actually go to their homes"
www.pravda.com.ua
December 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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If you’re not on Substack yet - it might be worth checking the Ukrainian voices there. Also - it’s another front of the information war.
You’ll find many familiar names, able to post long pieces.
@maksymeristavi.com - I hope you’re ok with that screen grab.

substack.com/@maksymerist...
December 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
“any kind of life as a colony within an empire, it really sucks, because that’s what empires do: they get the best of the resources that they could get out of you. they erase your identity.”
@dim0kq.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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🔴 UPD: Six people were killed, and at least 14 were injured as a result of the Russian attack on Kyiv overnight.

🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Russia carried out a massive overnight strike on Kyiv and the region, damaging homes and civilian infrastructure.

Six people were killed and 13 injured.

Strikes also hit Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, and Cherkasy regions.

In total, russia used 22 missiles and more than 460 drones.
November 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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⚡️ Ukraine offers to share its anti-drone warfare experience with Lithuania amid growing Russian air threats.
Ukraine Proposes Sharing Anti-Drone Experience With Lithuania Amid Rising Russian Air Threats
As part of a commitment to defense collaboration, Hnatov updated Premeneckas on the air situation and ongoing threats to Ukrainian airspace from Russian forces.
united24media.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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In 2015 I accompanied my boss to #YESForum in Kyiv, where @maksymeristavi.com interviewed him. I was impressed by this young journalist and have been following him ever since. I am ordering his book #RussianColonialism101 today and I hope you will too! linktr.ee/russiancolon...
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How to Invade a Neighbour and Get Away with It
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November 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
across half a century and several occupied nations, ordinary people answered russian colonial rule the only way left to them — by setting their own bodies on fire so their warning about the empire travels through time. my latest essay. please support it.
maksymeristavi.substack.com/p/resistance...
resistance to russian imperialism you did not know existed.
the surviving letters of the resistance that tell us more about russia that we could imagine.
maksymeristavi.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
speechless.
October 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Today while walking in my garden I remembered the words of my friend from Kherson: "I can't walk in my garden. I am scared that I may die".
For me walking in my garden is relaxing.
For her walking in her garden can be a death sentence because of Russian petal mines.
We both live in Europe.
#Ukraine
October 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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russian colonialism 101 merch is back in stock, you guys 🪆🪓

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October 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Today we mark day 29. In almost 31h we advanced with +5$ ❤️‍🩹.
I'll be honest now, the way we're advancing now we will finish this fundraiser next year or we give up. We're supported only by a few friends & they can't carry all the weight alone.
Please RT!
PP: aaproxin@gmail.com
#Ukraine #NAFO #FNDRUA
October 24, 2025 at 6:27 AM
see you tonight in Hamburg. my final lecture this year.
many thanks to fluctoplasma and @ukrindeu.bsky.social for landing me such a cool spot for my lecture on russian colonialism. i am bringing the story i have shared just once before. hamburg, see you soon 🪆🪓

www.fluctoplasma.com/program/colo...
October 24, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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I have one of these shirts (the one in Ukrainian). They’re very cool.
russian colonialism 101 merch is back in stock, you guys 🪆🪓

istpublishing.org/en/merch
October 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
many thanks to fluctoplasma and @ukrindeu.bsky.social for landing me such a cool spot for my lecture on russian colonialism. i am bringing the story i have shared just once before. hamburg, see you soon 🪆🪓

www.fluctoplasma.com/program/colo...
October 23, 2025 at 6:20 AM
russian colonialism 101 merch is back in stock, you guys 🪆🪓

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October 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
see you tomorrow, Frankfurt.
@correctiv.org
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October 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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🔴 Russia tortured to death two 16-year-olds, Danylo Dakhov and Pavlo Hrymak, from Melitopol.

Deputy Foreign Minister Mariana Betsa reported this at the UN General Assembly on September 4.

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October 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
stop by @CORRECTIV Verlag booth at this year’s @buchmesse.de for an autograph session and pick up freshly-printed german translation of my Russian Colonialism 101 guidebook 🪆🪓

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October 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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The list of russian crimes is endless. There can be no lasting peace without justice. #MakeRussiaPay
October 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM