Erica Marat 🇺🇦
@ericamarat.bsky.social
Professor. Opinions are my personal. Posting as a private citizen. Do not represent any institution or group.
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An increasing number of women are joining the Ukrainian military, with thousands serving in front-line roles, as Russia's war on Ukraine nears its fourth year — with no peace in sight.
'No turning back': More and more Ukrainian women join the army to fight Russia
An increasing number of women are joining the Ukrainian military, with thousands serving in front-line roles, as Russia's war on Ukraine nears its fourth year — with no peace in sight.
n.pr
November 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
An increasing number of women are joining the Ukrainian military, with thousands serving in front-line roles, as Russia's war on Ukraine nears its fourth year — with no peace in sight.
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A Turkish military cargo plane has crashed in Georgia near the Azerbaijan border, according to Turkish and Georgian authorities.
Turkish military plane with 20 on board crashes in Georgia
A Turkish military cargo plane has crashed in Georgia near the Azerbaijan border, according to Turkish and Georgian authorities.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A Turkish military cargo plane has crashed in Georgia near the Azerbaijan border, according to Turkish and Georgian authorities.
This was during C5+1 meeting tonight.
Trump on SNAP: "Our country has to remain very liquid because problems, catastrophes, wars -- it could be anything. We have to remain liquid. We can't give everything away."
November 7, 2025 at 1:53 AM
This was during C5+1 meeting tonight.
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At least 1,076 Cuban nationals have fought or are fighting for Russia in Ukraine, Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) told the Kyiv Independent on Oct. 15.
Ninety-six are known to have died or gone missing in action.
Ninety-six are known to have died or gone missing in action.
Exclusive: HUR reveals number of Cubans fighting for Russia in Ukraine
HUR claims they receive only two weeks of training at the Avangard training center in Moscow Oblast before being sent to the front line.
kyivindependent.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
At least 1,076 Cuban nationals have fought or are fighting for Russia in Ukraine, Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) told the Kyiv Independent on Oct. 15.
Ninety-six are known to have died or gone missing in action.
Ninety-six are known to have died or gone missing in action.
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And even though he was lucky, and stumbled on an entire continent no one knew about, he still persisted in his idiotic delusion he had made it to India… which was still 9000 miles away.
Worst. Navigator. Ever.
Worst. Navigator. Ever.
October 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
And even though he was lucky, and stumbled on an entire continent no one knew about, he still persisted in his idiotic delusion he had made it to India… which was still 9000 miles away.
Worst. Navigator. Ever.
Worst. Navigator. Ever.
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My semi-regular Columbus Day message:
Columbus wasn’t called crazy because he thought the world was round. That had been known for 1000 years.
He was called crazy because he thought it was so small he could reach India by going west. And they were right! He was a delusional fool!
But lucky.
Columbus wasn’t called crazy because he thought the world was round. That had been known for 1000 years.
He was called crazy because he thought it was so small he could reach India by going west. And they were right! He was a delusional fool!
But lucky.
October 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
My semi-regular Columbus Day message:
Columbus wasn’t called crazy because he thought the world was round. That had been known for 1000 years.
He was called crazy because he thought it was so small he could reach India by going west. And they were right! He was a delusional fool!
But lucky.
Columbus wasn’t called crazy because he thought the world was round. That had been known for 1000 years.
He was called crazy because he thought it was so small he could reach India by going west. And they were right! He was a delusional fool!
But lucky.
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While traveling through Uzbekistan this summer, I became curious about the history of the Bukharan Jews and decided to examine how tourism is shaping what remains of the community, for my latest in @meduza.io's The Beet. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
Back to Bukhara How memory, tourism, and the diaspora sustain the last vestiges of Uzbekistan’s Jewish heritage — Meduza
Best known as a stop on the Silk Road trade route, Uzbekistan’s ancient city of Bukhara was home to a thriving Jewish community for more than 2,000 years. But since the Soviet Union’s collapse in the ...
meduza.io
October 13, 2025 at 7:20 AM
While traveling through Uzbekistan this summer, I became curious about the history of the Bukharan Jews and decided to examine how tourism is shaping what remains of the community, for my latest in @meduza.io's The Beet. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
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Our next RUTA will focus on the role of embodied and rooted knowledges as catalysts of change and drivers of shifts in power. Deadline for submissions is on Nov 15. We welcome a wide range of presentation and art formats, while prioritising transregional and global panels, discussion and dialogues
Our 2026 RUTA conference will be exploring the role of embodied knowledges and knowledges rooted in the places we conduct research about. We will discuss how the making of knowledge, art and cultural heritage changes when it is grounded in places and communities and which possibilities this opens
October 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Our next RUTA will focus on the role of embodied and rooted knowledges as catalysts of change and drivers of shifts in power. Deadline for submissions is on Nov 15. We welcome a wide range of presentation and art formats, while prioritising transregional and global panels, discussion and dialogues
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Putin turns 73 on October 7. He was 46 when he first became Prime Minister in August 1999. Since that time he has been either Prime Minister or President for more than 26 years, more than 1/3 of his life. In 2004, he said "one could go crazy" working as president for 7 years.
October 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Putin turns 73 on October 7. He was 46 when he first became Prime Minister in August 1999. Since that time he has been either Prime Minister or President for more than 26 years, more than 1/3 of his life. In 2004, he said "one could go crazy" working as president for 7 years.
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Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen.
November 20, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen.
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Moldovan voters have (yet again!) thwarted Ru’s efforts to intimidate, buy, and manipulate them into abandoning their pro-EU course.
another huge win for Europe tonight!
It is now clear: even with votes still to be counted, Moldova has chosen Europe. Maia Sandu and PAS are heading to a decisive majority.
Bravo the people of Moldova.
It is now clear: even with votes still to be counted, Moldova has chosen Europe. Maia Sandu and PAS are heading to a decisive majority.
Bravo the people of Moldova.
September 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Moldovan voters have (yet again!) thwarted Ru’s efforts to intimidate, buy, and manipulate them into abandoning their pro-EU course.
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BREAKING: Moldovans are heading to the polls to cast ballots in a tense parliamentary election plagued by claims of Russian interference, a vote seen as a choice between integration with the European Union or a drift back into Moscow’s fold.
Moldovans cast ballots in a tense election plagued by Russian interference claims
Moldovans are heading to the polls to cast ballots in a tense parliamentary election plagued by claims of Russian interference.
bit.ly
September 28, 2025 at 4:11 AM
BREAKING: Moldovans are heading to the polls to cast ballots in a tense parliamentary election plagued by claims of Russian interference, a vote seen as a choice between integration with the European Union or a drift back into Moscow’s fold.
Boeing Gets Order From Uzbekistan Airways
The companies said Uzbekistan Airways would buy 14 of Boeing’s 787-9 Dreamliner jets, with options for eight more
gift article
www.wsj.com/business/air...
The companies said Uzbekistan Airways would buy 14 of Boeing’s 787-9 Dreamliner jets, with options for eight more
gift article
www.wsj.com/business/air...
www.wsj.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Boeing Gets Order From Uzbekistan Airways
The companies said Uzbekistan Airways would buy 14 of Boeing’s 787-9 Dreamliner jets, with options for eight more
gift article
www.wsj.com/business/air...
The companies said Uzbekistan Airways would buy 14 of Boeing’s 787-9 Dreamliner jets, with options for eight more
gift article
www.wsj.com/business/air...
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Russian strategic bombers have taken off and likely heading to bomb Ukraine.
We’re in for yet another hellish night. Once more. Keep us in your thoughts.
We’re in for yet another hellish night. Once more. Keep us in your thoughts.
September 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Russian strategic bombers have taken off and likely heading to bomb Ukraine.
We’re in for yet another hellish night. Once more. Keep us in your thoughts.
We’re in for yet another hellish night. Once more. Keep us in your thoughts.
Genocide or Not? The 1931–1933 Famine in the Collective Memories of Kazakhstan’s Post-Independence Generations by
Berikbol Dukeyev www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Berikbol Dukeyev www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Genocide or Not? The 1931–1933 Famine in the Collective Memories of Kazakhstan’s Post-Independence Generations
This article presents the first study of how the 1931–1933 famine is remembered by Kazakhstan’s post-independence generations. The famine in the Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic claimed ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Genocide or Not? The 1931–1933 Famine in the Collective Memories of Kazakhstan’s Post-Independence Generations by
Berikbol Dukeyev www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Berikbol Dukeyev www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Latest from @niginakhon.bsky.social: The number of Uzbek nationals fighting in the Russia-Ukraine war remains significant, and the price of returning home has become little more than a grounding.
thediplomat.com/2025/09/uzbe...
thediplomat.com/2025/09/uzbe...
Uzbek Fighters in Russia’s War Face Relatively Mild Punishments at Home
The number of Uzbek nationals fighting in the Russia-Ukraine war remains significant, and the price of returning home has become little more than a grounding.
thediplomat.com
September 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Latest from @niginakhon.bsky.social: The number of Uzbek nationals fighting in the Russia-Ukraine war remains significant, and the price of returning home has become little more than a grounding.
thediplomat.com/2025/09/uzbe...
thediplomat.com/2025/09/uzbe...
Speaking to a standup comedian Nurzhamal from Almaty, did Conan O’Brien just promise to visit Kazakhstan? 😁
open.spotify.com/episode/1Gts...
open.spotify.com/episode/1Gts...
Don’t Look A Gift Horse Meat In The Mouth
open.spotify.com
September 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Speaking to a standup comedian Nurzhamal from Almaty, did Conan O’Brien just promise to visit Kazakhstan? 😁
open.spotify.com/episode/1Gts...
open.spotify.com/episode/1Gts...
Excited to see this book by Shoirakhon Nurdinova, out in January 2026! 🤩
link.springer.com/book/9789819...
link.springer.com/book/9789819...
September 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Excited to see this book by Shoirakhon Nurdinova, out in January 2026! 🤩
link.springer.com/book/9789819...
link.springer.com/book/9789819...
Can’t wait to get started in 2026! 🤩
August 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Can’t wait to get started in 2026! 🤩
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This is amazing. (Is there a precedent?)
The Ukrainian Embassy in DC becomes THE welcome place for some of the world’s most powerful leaders.
European unity is on display and Ukraine is the host and unifer.
United for just and sustainable peace.
Video c/o President Zelensky’s Official Telegram
The Ukrainian Embassy in DC becomes THE welcome place for some of the world’s most powerful leaders.
European unity is on display and Ukraine is the host and unifer.
United for just and sustainable peace.
Video c/o President Zelensky’s Official Telegram
August 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This is amazing. (Is there a precedent?)
The Ukrainian Embassy in DC becomes THE welcome place for some of the world’s most powerful leaders.
European unity is on display and Ukraine is the host and unifer.
United for just and sustainable peace.
Video c/o President Zelensky’s Official Telegram
The Ukrainian Embassy in DC becomes THE welcome place for some of the world’s most powerful leaders.
European unity is on display and Ukraine is the host and unifer.
United for just and sustainable peace.
Video c/o President Zelensky’s Official Telegram
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Awesome dispatch from @meduza.io's The Beet on how Wikipedia's Central Asian-language pages are being built up/translated/grown: mailchi.mp/meduza.io/wi...
Central Asian Wikipedians, unite!
mailchi.mp
August 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Awesome dispatch from @meduza.io's The Beet on how Wikipedia's Central Asian-language pages are being built up/translated/grown: mailchi.mp/meduza.io/wi...
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just realized that Ivan the terrible, Peter the Great, and (indirectly) Stalin all killed their own sons. in russia today these three are considered the country's greatest rulers. almost like a metaphor for russian history or something
August 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
just realized that Ivan the terrible, Peter the Great, and (indirectly) Stalin all killed their own sons. in russia today these three are considered the country's greatest rulers. almost like a metaphor for russian history or something
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During a missile strike on Kyiv, two schoolgirls and their mother were killed.
Their school announced that Alina and Anastasia Humeniuk died along with their mother. They were internally displaced people from Donbas who had sought refuge in the capital. Russia found them and killed them there.
Their school announced that Alina and Anastasia Humeniuk died along with their mother. They were internally displaced people from Donbas who had sought refuge in the capital. Russia found them and killed them there.
August 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
During a missile strike on Kyiv, two schoolgirls and their mother were killed.
Their school announced that Alina and Anastasia Humeniuk died along with their mother. They were internally displaced people from Donbas who had sought refuge in the capital. Russia found them and killed them there.
Their school announced that Alina and Anastasia Humeniuk died along with their mother. They were internally displaced people from Donbas who had sought refuge in the capital. Russia found them and killed them there.
I needed this today
when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
July 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I needed this today