Nadia Dobrianska
@nadiadobrianska.bsky.social
🇺🇦 in Ireland.
Modern Irish History, Ukrainian politics
Tá Gaeilge agam. Mo thuairimí féin / My own thoughts
Modern Irish History, Ukrainian politics
Tá Gaeilge agam. Mo thuairimí féin / My own thoughts
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Idir Dhá Bhaile (1-1) | Player | TG4 | Irish Television Channel, Súil Eile
This documentary explores the challenges faced by one family of Ukrainian refugees as they try to rebuild their lives in Ireland.
www.tg4.ie
This is a documentary on the Irish channel TG4 about how me and my family became refugees in Ireland and of the toll the Russian invasion has taken on our lives. It's in Irish with English subtitles. Available worldwide!
www.tg4.ie/en/player/ca...
www.tg4.ie/en/player/ca...
Trump passing to Ukraine the same Russian ultimatum to surrender that they had been demanding since 2022. Same old shite over and over again. Ukraine did not submit at its weakest in spring 2022, why should she submit now when Russia's finally hit with sanctions like never before?
a man is holding a microphone in front of a crowd and says " well it 's groundhog day ... again "
Alt: a man is holding a microphone in front of a crowd and says " well it 's groundhog day ... again "
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November 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Trump passing to Ukraine the same Russian ultimatum to surrender that they had been demanding since 2022. Same old shite over and over again. Ukraine did not submit at its weakest in spring 2022, why should she submit now when Russia's finally hit with sanctions like never before?
I'm sincerely sorry that the fact that Ukrainians keep surviving Russia's genocidal onslaught presents a deadly cognitive dissonance to Europe's and America's far-left (far-right just hate foreigners, there's no dissonance). So much mental gymnatics must be bad for their health.
Por lo que sabemos, hoy el presidente formaliza con Zelensky una nueva compra de material militar a Trump. Casi tres años de guerra después EEUU es el único beneficiado del conflicto. Exigimos que se detenga la deriva armamentística y se destine ese dinero a educación y sanidad.
November 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I'm sincerely sorry that the fact that Ukrainians keep surviving Russia's genocidal onslaught presents a deadly cognitive dissonance to Europe's and America's far-left (far-right just hate foreigners, there's no dissonance). So much mental gymnatics must be bad for their health.
It's a nice message to send to the EU. It's funny they are not asking the Russians to leave Ukraine though. It's just eyewash aimed at the gullible Westerners donors. At home Russian liberals have been pleading for less corruption and better conditions for their soldiers while they kill Ukrainians.
“If I had to describe the movement that my husband Alexei Navalny created in just a few words, I’d say this: We are a pro-European movement,” Yulia Navalnaya, Russian opposition leader and economist writes in an op-ed.
“We believe Russia is an inseparable part of European civilization.”
“We believe Russia is an inseparable part of European civilization.”
What the Russian opposition wants
We aren’t asking for anything extravagant: We simply want Russia to be a normal country that cares about the dignity, rights and future of its people — just as European countries do.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It's a nice message to send to the EU. It's funny they are not asking the Russians to leave Ukraine though. It's just eyewash aimed at the gullible Westerners donors. At home Russian liberals have been pleading for less corruption and better conditions for their soldiers while they kill Ukrainians.
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Now, I shouldn't have expected anything from the House of Guinness, historically speaking, and honestly, I didn't, but my God it's awful. I don't even know where to start, but @nadiadobrianska.bsky.social wants me to write a thread so...
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Now, I shouldn't have expected anything from the House of Guinness, historically speaking, and honestly, I didn't, but my God it's awful. I don't even know where to start, but @nadiadobrianska.bsky.social wants me to write a thread so...
Everyone looks like a leprechaun 👽
I made @theirishstory.bsky.social watch The House of Guinness with me. I feel bad because this is how he is looking now.
a husky dog is standing on a wooden floor in a living room looking at the camera .
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November 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Everyone looks like a leprechaun 👽
I made @theirishstory.bsky.social watch The House of Guinness with me. I feel bad because this is how he is looking now.
a husky dog is standing on a wooden floor in a living room looking at the camera .
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November 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I made @theirishstory.bsky.social watch The House of Guinness with me. I feel bad because this is how he is looking now.
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Polish court refuses to execute European Arrest Warrant issued by Germany on the grounds that there might be a "just war" justification for sabotage, analysis by Petra Bard
www.linkedin.com/posts/petra-...
www.linkedin.com/posts/petra-...
When Just War Meets the European Arrest Warrant: Warsaw Court Refuses Germany’s EAW in the Nord Stream Case - www.iconnectblog.com | Petra Bard
When Just War Meets the European Arrest Warrant
What happens when the laws of armed conflict collide with the cross-border mechanisms of the EU? In a landmark decision, a Polish court declined to exe...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Polish court refuses to execute European Arrest Warrant issued by Germany on the grounds that there might be a "just war" justification for sabotage, analysis by Petra Bard
www.linkedin.com/posts/petra-...
www.linkedin.com/posts/petra-...
Whereas in reality an average Ukrainian voter is a baseline social demorat, because everyone takes for granted labour rights, free education and (even though impoverished) free public healthcare. Some are more religiously conservative, some are more libertarian.
It's a classic trope that anti-communist Eastern Europeans are reactionaries, fascists, Nazi collaborators and who knows what else.
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Whereas in reality an average Ukrainian voter is a baseline social demorat, because everyone takes for granted labour rights, free education and (even though impoverished) free public healthcare. Some are more religiously conservative, some are more libertarian.
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as a bosnian, i cannot accept this depoliticization of the mass murder that was directed against us. to brazenly claim that the violence has "no political or religious motivation" is beneath common sense. it harms any understanding of what happened in sarajevo and bosnia
“There were no political or religious motivations. They were rich people who went there for fun and personal satisfaction. We are talking about people who love guns who perhaps go to shooting ranges or on safari in Africa.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
as a bosnian, i cannot accept this depoliticization of the mass murder that was directed against us. to brazenly claim that the violence has "no political or religious motivation" is beneath common sense. it harms any understanding of what happened in sarajevo and bosnia
Critical and decolonial studies is only for situations when the West does it 😁 if Russia is involved - then their opponents are caveman nationalists and Nazis and they deserve it
What ensues in academia when one critiques another’s favourite empire…The charge of borrowing from US frameworks toward a robust critique of westsplaining must be the biggest straw person fallacy to my work so far. How did this get through peer review? But also glad to stand there with Maria Mälksoo
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Critical and decolonial studies is only for situations when the West does it 😁 if Russia is involved - then their opponents are caveman nationalists and Nazis and they deserve it
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I wonder if there's going to be a natural selection for the parties like hers as Russian budget for middling in foreign affairs is dwindling due to the war costs.
Sahra Wagenknecht, a longtime icon of hard-left politics in Germany, is stepping down as co-leader of the populist party she founded only last year.
Germany’s hard-left icon steps down as leader of populist party she founded
Sahra Wagenknecht says she will still maintain an active leadership role in the party that bears her name.
www.politico.eu
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I wonder if there's going to be a natural selection for the parties like hers as Russian budget for middling in foreign affairs is dwindling due to the war costs.
In other news about what people want:
Nadia Dobrianska: I want my chapter to write itself while I go on a holiday to Tenerife.
Nadia Dobrianska: I want my chapter to write itself while I go on a holiday to Tenerife.
Zack Polanski: "I want to see everyone denuclearise, including Vladimir Putin."
November 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
In other news about what people want:
Nadia Dobrianska: I want my chapter to write itself while I go on a holiday to Tenerife.
Nadia Dobrianska: I want my chapter to write itself while I go on a holiday to Tenerife.
For what is worth, Stalinism being is rehabilitated under Putin. And the best alternative the Russian 'democratic opposition' has offered so far has been to make Russia corruption-free, not to deimperialise it 🥱
"Putin attacked Ukraine, not Russians" fails to grapple with why millions of ordinary Russians were willing to follow orders in a devastating war against Ukraine.
This stuff open up questions over how far Russia as a society will come to terms with the past after Putin is gone.
This stuff open up questions over how far Russia as a society will come to terms with the past after Putin is gone.
November 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM
For what is worth, Stalinism being is rehabilitated under Putin. And the best alternative the Russian 'democratic opposition' has offered so far has been to make Russia corruption-free, not to deimperialise it 🥱
Someone living in a loyalist estate near Newry, a Lithuanian who does not speak English, recording a video with an Irish tricolor threatening to bomb Galway Mosque. Brave new united Ireland or the Russians finally found their goons for hire in Ireland after failing to recruit the Provos and dissos?
The court heard that a video was discovered on a device examined as part of the investigation that captured four masked men during the reading of a statement outlining their intentions to “take violent action”. jrnl.ie/6868234
Right-wing extremist group planned to 'target IPAS centres, mosques and hotels', court hears
Karolis Peckauskas and Garrett Pollock appeared in court charged with possession of explosives after being arrested during an antiterrorism operation.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Someone living in a loyalist estate near Newry, a Lithuanian who does not speak English, recording a video with an Irish tricolor threatening to bomb Galway Mosque. Brave new united Ireland or the Russians finally found their goons for hire in Ireland after failing to recruit the Provos and dissos?
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I think about this post every day 🧪
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I think about this post every day 🧪
SDU investigating suspected far-right organisations sounds very encouraging for once.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
Two men detained in operation against far-right terror group due in court in Co Laois
Operation carried out by Garda’s Special Detective Unit, which investigates terrorism and other threats to the State
www.irishtimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
SDU investigating suspected far-right organisations sounds very encouraging for once.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...
Writing up those last chapters.
a cartoon shrimp sits in front of a computer
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November 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Writing up those last chapters.
Me when the chapter doesn't want to write itself
aurora from sleeping beauty is laying on a bed with a blue curtain
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November 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Me when the chapter doesn't want to write itself
I've been trying to keep my Bsky feed from getting swamped completely by the NYC election posts. And then today my dad walks in to the kitchen and explains to me how Zohran Mamdani's victory means there's hope for the US. I give up!
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I've been trying to keep my Bsky feed from getting swamped completely by the NYC election posts. And then today my dad walks in to the kitchen and explains to me how Zohran Mamdani's victory means there's hope for the US. I give up!
PhDs are so strange. I am writing one small chapter that is entirely in my comfort zone. When I started writing the thesis, I imagined that 100% of my work would be like this. Instead, the other 5 chapters push me to develop new experise to back my conclusions from the comfort zone 😂
kermit the frog is sitting on a table in a kitchen .
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November 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
PhDs are so strange. I am writing one small chapter that is entirely in my comfort zone. When I started writing the thesis, I imagined that 100% of my work would be like this. Instead, the other 5 chapters push me to develop new experise to back my conclusions from the comfort zone 😂
Yes.
An IPAS centre burnt out with fireworks thrown into it - women and children lucky to get out alive - when are we going to start taking the far right violence in Ireland seriously?
It's been like watching the world's slowest train crash. For 5 years.
It's been like watching the world's slowest train crash. For 5 years.
November 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Yes.
Asked trick or treaters for a song or a poem with mixed success. Gotta work a little for that candy!
October 31, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Asked trick or treaters for a song or a poem with mixed success. Gotta work a little for that candy!
The UN bona fide examination of Russia's claims about biological warfare (combat birds, bats whatnot) by Ukraine is the least ridiculous aspect to Russian international lawfare.
Proud to publish this piece from my former student, who writes that Russia's lawfare in the European Court of Human Rights is "transforming [it] into an unwitting accomplice in one of the most sophisticated disinformation operations of the modern era.”
americansunlight.substack.com/p/russias-la...
americansunlight.substack.com/p/russias-la...
Russia’s Lawfare Playbook: How the Kremlin Weaponized Human Rights Courts to Launder Disinformation
When the Kremlin wants to legitimize a lie, it doesn’t just hold a press conference – it files a lawsuit.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The UN bona fide examination of Russia's claims about biological warfare (combat birds, bats whatnot) by Ukraine is the least ridiculous aspect to Russian international lawfare.
The article is really interesting even if I think it is futile to ask the far left to stop being genocidal ghouls. When their favourite dictator is trying to perpetrate a genocide, they simply cannot help themselves.
"Sultana embodies the kind of British leftist who would do anything for the world’s working class except listen to them."
www.spectator.co.uk/article/zara...
www.spectator.co.uk/article/zara...
Zarah Sultana’s pompous, luxury beliefs about Ukraine
Zarah Sultana loves to pose as a champion of the working class, seeing the world through the lens of class struggle. Even, it seems, the war in Ukraine. In her latest interview, she calls Nato ‘an imp...
www.spectator.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The article is really interesting even if I think it is futile to ask the far left to stop being genocidal ghouls. When their favourite dictator is trying to perpetrate a genocide, they simply cannot help themselves.