Giuliano Vivaldi
@giuviv.bsky.social
Freelance translator (RU+IT to ENG), beginning work on a project that have entitled The Errant Kraeved. Now writing on Liguria (and nearby localities) for a book provisionally entitled The Red Riviera. Occasionally post about other stuff.
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Please join us Thurs 20 Nov, 7pm, to launch this book: English translations of speeches in court by anti-war protesters in Russia. We want to ensure their voices are heard more widely in the English-speaking world. At Pelican House in London, also livestreamed. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/try-me-for...
October 31, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Please join us Thurs 20 Nov, 7pm, to launch this book: English translations of speeches in court by anti-war protesters in Russia. We want to ensure their voices are heard more widely in the English-speaking world. At Pelican House in London, also livestreamed. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/try-me-for...
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Great to see our book, Voices Against Putin's War, in the front window at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social. @ensu-resu.bsky.social @ukrainesol.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Great to see our book, Voices Against Putin's War, in the front window at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social. @ensu-resu.bsky.social @ukrainesol.bsky.social
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This is a great favourite of mine &, I am pleased to say, it is a view that Elwin Hawthorne would still recognise to this day! This is "Reconstruction at Saltdean" by him from 1934. #ElwinHawthorne #Saltdean #Sussex #EastLondonGroup #MondayMorning
October 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
This is a great favourite of mine &, I am pleased to say, it is a view that Elwin Hawthorne would still recognise to this day! This is "Reconstruction at Saltdean" by him from 1934. #ElwinHawthorne #Saltdean #Sussex #EastLondonGroup #MondayMorning
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What I said at the Solidarity With Ukraine event in Brussels on Wednesday.
"We are not required to endorse long-term rearmament programmes, in order to support politically the provision to Ukraine by western European states of the weapons and ammunition it needs." Photo by Solidarity Collectives 1/3 peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/s...
Support Ukrainian resistance – not monstrous rearmament plans
By Simon Pirani. Based on a talk given at a panel, “What peace?”, at the Solidarity with Ukraine event this week in Brussels “What peace?” is a wide question. To narrow it down, we can ask: what so…
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March 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
What I said at the Solidarity With Ukraine event in Brussels on Wednesday.
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"What challenges does the war present to Ukrainian society & the EU? What tensions & contradictions has it exposed? What changed in the symbolic opposition between the pro-Russian east & pro-European west?" Interview with Daria Saburova & Denys Gorbach.
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Ukrainian workers, the European Union and war
□ An interview with Daria Saburova and Denys Gorbach, by Clement Petitjean, first published in French on the socialist web site Mouvements. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, …
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March 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
"What challenges does the war present to Ukrainian society & the EU? What tensions & contradictions has it exposed? What changed in the symbolic opposition between the pro-Russian east & pro-European west?" Interview with Daria Saburova & Denys Gorbach.
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Russian anarchist Ruslan Siddiqi's own account of his lonely attempt to interfere with the genocidal Russian war machine and his torture at the hands of the FSB.
Ruslan Siddiqi: “You Could Call Me a Partisan”
Ruslan Siddiqi's account of his lonely struggle against the genocidal Russian war machine and his torture at the hands of the FSB. Thanks to Mediazona for the original publication, Giuliano Vivaldi for the stellar translation, and Simon Pirani for organizing our joint publication of Giuliano's translation. It makes particularly poignant reading in a country now beset by a pro-Putin, anti-Ukrainian administration.
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February 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Russian anarchist Ruslan Siddiqi's own account of his lonely attempt to interfere with the genocidal Russian war machine and his torture at the hands of the FSB.
I have reposted my translation of Ruslan Siddiqi's words on my old Afoniya blog. I would really welcome other websites to repost this important testimony on their sites. It also gives advice on how people can support one of Russia's bravest partisans: afoniya.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/y...
‘You could call me a partisan.’ Ruslan Siddiqi recounts his anti-war actions.
A Russian and Italian citizen, an electrician from [the Russian city of] Ryazan, an industrial tourist, a bike traveller, an anarchist and a partisan – all this can be said about 36-year-old Ruslan…
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February 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I have reposted my translation of Ruslan Siddiqi's words on my old Afoniya blog. I would really welcome other websites to repost this important testimony on their sites. It also gives advice on how people can support one of Russia's bravest partisans: afoniya.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/y...
Ruslan Siddiki's words have appeared in my translation for the People and Nature website.We must not forget the brave resisters in Russia who have used direct action to sabotage the war. For me Siddiki is a noble heir of European partisans of the 1940s: peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/y...
‘You could call me a partisan.’ Ruslan Siddiqi recounts his anti-war actions
A Russian and Italian citizen, an electrician from [the Russian city of] Ryazan, an industrial tourist, a bike traveller, an anarchist and a partisan – all this can be said about 36-year-old Ruslan…
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February 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Ruslan Siddiki's words have appeared in my translation for the People and Nature website.We must not forget the brave resisters in Russia who have used direct action to sabotage the war. For me Siddiki is a noble heir of European partisans of the 1940s: peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/y...
E' vitale che Ruslan Sidiqi un italo-russo venga appoggiato con una grande campagna di solidarietà in Italia. Si è parlato (e giustamente) di Cecilia Sala e di Ilaria Salas e grazie a diverse forme di pressione sono state liberate. Anche il partigiano anarchico Ruslan Sidiqi è degna di solidarietà.
In December 2023, the FSB arrested Ruslan Sidiki, a 36-year-old Russian-Italian dual citizen and self-proclaimed anarchist, accusing him of attacking a military airfield and sabotaging a railway line. He told his story from jail.
‘Some people leave the country, others turn to explosives’ In letters from jail, a Russian-Italian anarchist recounts how he turned to sabotage to combat the Kremlin’s war — Meduza
In December 2023, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced the arrest of a dual Russian-Italian citizen accused of attacking a military airfield and sabotaging a railway line. The suspect…
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February 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
E' vitale che Ruslan Sidiqi un italo-russo venga appoggiato con una grande campagna di solidarietà in Italia. Si è parlato (e giustamente) di Cecilia Sala e di Ilaria Salas e grazie a diverse forme di pressione sono state liberate. Anche il partigiano anarchico Ruslan Sidiqi è degna di solidarietà.
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Yesterday, exiled Petersburg artist, activist and Russian language teacher Daria Apahonchich was placed on Russia's wanted list. Here she reflects on this decision's impact on her, and in a story published last summer, she recalls how teaching Russian to migrant workers got her in trouble.
Darya Apahonchich: The Accusative Case
Yesterday, exiled Petersburg artist, activist and Russian language teacher Daria Apahonchich was placed on Russia's wanted list. Here she reflects on this outrageous decision's impact on her, and in a story she published last summer, she recalls how her pre-exile work teaching Russian to migrant workers and refugees got her in trouble with the authorities.
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February 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Yesterday, exiled Petersburg artist, activist and Russian language teacher Daria Apahonchich was placed on Russia's wanted list. Here she reflects on this decision's impact on her, and in a story published last summer, she recalls how teaching Russian to migrant workers got her in trouble.
In memory of Odesa's satirist, Valeriy Khait, who I met in 2011 at the city's Literature Festival and who passed away yesterday.
February 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
In memory of Odesa's satirist, Valeriy Khait, who I met in 2011 at the city's Literature Festival and who passed away yesterday.
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A personal favourite item on the Walking Museum to the Spanish Civil War. 1938 fundraising stamp from Denmark: Milk for the Spanish Children, issued by social democratic foundation set up to aid political refugees from fascism, named after Italian socialist Giacomo Matteotti murdered in 1924
January 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
A personal favourite item on the Walking Museum to the Spanish Civil War. 1938 fundraising stamp from Denmark: Milk for the Spanish Children, issued by social democratic foundation set up to aid political refugees from fascism, named after Italian socialist Giacomo Matteotti murdered in 1924
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Skobov, twice incarcerated in Soviet times as a socialist dissident, behind bars again. Of the Kremlin's rulers, he told the judge: "Murdering hundreds of 000s of people is how they bolster their self-esteem. They are degenerates, scum, Nazi riffraff." peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/a...
Aleksandr Skobov tells Russian court: ‘Putin’s dictatorship must be routed militarily’
The closing statement to the Petersburg military court in Russia, made last week by the historian and political activist Aleksandr Skobov, in his trial on charges of publicly condoning terrorism an…
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January 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Skobov, twice incarcerated in Soviet times as a socialist dissident, behind bars again. Of the Kremlin's rulers, he told the judge: "Murdering hundreds of 000s of people is how they bolster their self-esteem. They are degenerates, scum, Nazi riffraff." peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/a...
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16 years ago, Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasia Baburova and lawyer Stanislav Markelov, who was defending political activists, including members of the antifascist movement, were shot dead in the centre of Moscow on Prechistenka Street.
January 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
16 years ago, Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasia Baburova and lawyer Stanislav Markelov, who was defending political activists, including members of the antifascist movement, were shot dead in the centre of Moscow on Prechistenka Street.
Another (eclectic) post in my Santon's Notebook blog on walks through Genoa, urban and rural Liguria, finding a new idea of the 'Rodina' in Pasolini's Versuta and discovering a strange statue in Genoa's Foce district after travelling East for two decades: santonsnotebook.blogspot.com/2025/01/of-o...
Of Oars and Fountains: The Peripatetic Dialectics of my Liguria project.
This dialectic of Genoa and its peripheral surroundings still reigns in my thoughts. Partly because out of a kind of unease at a pro...
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January 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Another (eclectic) post in my Santon's Notebook blog on walks through Genoa, urban and rural Liguria, finding a new idea of the 'Rodina' in Pasolini's Versuta and discovering a strange statue in Genoa's Foce district after travelling East for two decades: santonsnotebook.blogspot.com/2025/01/of-o...
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Books can save lives. Images from 2012 exhibition in Madrid on "wounded" books used by Republican and International Brigade defenders as barricades in the Facility of Philosophy and Letters during the 1936 siege of Madrid.
January 16, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Books can save lives. Images from 2012 exhibition in Madrid on "wounded" books used by Republican and International Brigade defenders as barricades in the Facility of Philosophy and Letters during the 1936 siege of Madrid.
Walking in Genoa's Foce district (which I hadn't been to for over 20 years) I discovered what seemed like the long-lost brother of Ivan Shadr's 'Girl with an Oar' statue. A younger brother given that this statue was inaugurated in 1938 (Shadr's statue was from 1935).
January 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Walking in Genoa's Foce district (which I hadn't been to for over 20 years) I discovered what seemed like the long-lost brother of Ivan Shadr's 'Girl with an Oar' statue. A younger brother given that this statue was inaugurated in 1938 (Shadr's statue was from 1935).
graniru.org/Culture/essa... Just discovered this old piece by Lev Rubinstein on a late night encounter at an elektrichka station. Pure joy at reading it. One among many beautiful texts on elektrichkas and their spaces that I've read. Sad to recall that Lev Rubinstein is no longer with us.
Грани.Ру: Булгакова(-о) знаешь?
Но на всякий случай, исключительно из соображений интеллектуальной корректности, он все же счел нужным уточнить: "Какого Булгакова? Писателя?" "Хуятеля! - уже и вовсе неожиданно, хотя и в рифму, ответ...
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January 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
graniru.org/Culture/essa... Just discovered this old piece by Lev Rubinstein on a late night encounter at an elektrichka station. Pure joy at reading it. One among many beautiful texts on elektrichkas and their spaces that I've read. Sad to recall that Lev Rubinstein is no longer with us.
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The introduction to a new series - which will run alongside other posts - Detours on the Diameters, or The МЦД Project: an exploration of the areas on Moscow's outskirts, serviced by the new МЦД lines. From Lobnya to Podolsk, Odintsovo to Zheleznodorozhniy kotelnaya.substack.com/p/detours-on...
Detours on the Diameters: An Introduction
The МЦД Project
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January 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The introduction to a new series - which will run alongside other posts - Detours on the Diameters, or The МЦД Project: an exploration of the areas on Moscow's outskirts, serviced by the new МЦД lines. From Lobnya to Podolsk, Odintsovo to Zheleznodorozhniy kotelnaya.substack.com/p/detours-on...
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A hell of an interview with Maksym Butkevich, the Ukrainian human rights activist recently released from a Russian prison. (At the bottom of each page, click "nachste seite" to read more.) www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
Maksym Butkevych: And yet he remained a human
Ukrainian pacifist and human rights activist Maksym Butkevych talks about how he survived two years and four months in Russian captivity as a military officer.
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December 31, 2024 at 2:49 PM
A hell of an interview with Maksym Butkevich, the Ukrainian human rights activist recently released from a Russian prison. (At the bottom of each page, click "nachste seite" to read more.) www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
Beginning to read Leonardo Lippolis' La Città Livida, his psychogegographical counter-history of Genoa. Fascinated by his suggestion that Ivan Chtcheglov's invention of the concept of derive was heavily influenced by his time in Genoa in 1950.
December 26, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Beginning to read Leonardo Lippolis' La Città Livida, his psychogegographical counter-history of Genoa. Fascinated by his suggestion that Ivan Chtcheglov's invention of the concept of derive was heavily influenced by his time in Genoa in 1950.
What if we were to consider July 19th-21st 2001 as the beginning of the 21st Century, rather than September 11th of that year. The silence of Genoa and a proposal for an exhibition on the 25th anniversary in 2026. santonsnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...
The Silence of Genoa
When I conceived of my Moscow-Petushki (elektrichka-based) Project, the centre of Moscow would have been absent. It was very much a p...
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December 12, 2024 at 9:40 PM
What if we were to consider July 19th-21st 2001 as the beginning of the 21st Century, rather than September 11th of that year. The silence of Genoa and a proposal for an exhibition on the 25th anniversary in 2026. santonsnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...
A fascinating short perestroika era doc on the Ukrainian Shevchenko Division in the Spanish Civil War. In Russian (voice over) and Ukrainian (live interviews).
Obscure Soviet documentary about Ukranian veterans from the Spanish Civil War. Would love to see better translation than I got from Google translate, but at least 1 hiked over Pyrenees to join the Brigades, references to Stalin's camps and WW2 anti-Nazi resistance
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December 11, 2024 at 1:24 PM
A fascinating short perestroika era doc on the Ukrainian Shevchenko Division in the Spanish Civil War. In Russian (voice over) and Ukrainian (live interviews).
Two more blogposts on trying to considerations regarding Walter Benjamin in Liguria (focused on his frequent trips to San Remo-a fact I've only recently discovered): santonsnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/12/thin... santonsnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/12/thin...
(Thinking about) Walter Benjamin in Liguria: Part 1
Having read a variety of books on Liguria - many of which explicitly focus themselves on foreign visitors to the region - I was curio...
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December 11, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Two more blogposts on trying to considerations regarding Walter Benjamin in Liguria (focused on his frequent trips to San Remo-a fact I've only recently discovered): santonsnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/12/thin... santonsnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/12/thin...