Alexander Lapin
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Alexander Lapin
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Lawyer and postgraduate student researching phenomenon of wartime collaborationism from the perspective of social psychology. Kyiv, Ukraine
Update: he returned yesterday. However, he still faces indictment.
June 23, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Some people were beaten that day.

But what I remember most was a moment when policemen, who protected the Pride, shouted at us the 'f-word', when we ran into the subway station.
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June 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We were brought by special train (the central stations were closed right before we entered the subway) to the end station of the Blue line (Teremky) and instructed to put off any symbols.
Nevertheless,far-right nationalists jumped into the next train and started 'safari' searching for us to beat.2/3
June 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
the Ministry issued a similar order.

Thus, this court decision concerns only last year applicants and doesn't allow those postgraduate students, who applied this year, to study fulltime on contract basis. And they will need to appeal the 2025 order on their own. 4/4
June 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
appealed to the Kyiv Circuit Administrative Court which after a year of consideration cancelled the order of the Ministry because of its unlawfullness and discriminative character.

However, two problems still remain: this decision can be (and most probably will be) appealled, and this year 3/4
June 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
whose education is paid by the state budget (and number of whom is obviously times less).

This was made in attempt to prevent usage of postgraduate study as a legal ground for exemption of males from forcible mobilization,but in fact affected females too.

Thus,one of the victims of this order 2/4
June 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
The main one is that Ukrainian citizens convicted for wartime collaborationism, high treason, glorification of aggression, i.e. those with 'wrong' political views, are exchanged in breach of Consitution for Ukrainian citizens, taken as civilian hostages by Russia on the occupied territories.
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June 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
a sleepless night because of Russian attack on my country, I still remember that the language is neither a weapon nor a reason for discrimination of our own fellow citizens. Russian language belongs to 🇺🇦 in the same way we, Russian national minority in Ukraine, belong to 🇺🇦 as our Motherland. 10/10
June 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Are you going to say that it was he who managed himself in this way? Isn’t it more correct to think that someone else did? - and here the stranger laughed with a strange laugh".

BTW, today is the Russian Language Day, mother tongue of Bulgakov (and me too). Although I am celebrating it after 9/10
June 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
And there is something even worse: just that a person will go to Kislovodsk, - here a foreigner squinted on Berlioz - trivial, apparently, the case, but this can not do, because no one knows why suddenly take - slip and fall under the tram! 8/10
June 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
And all this ends tragically: the one who had thought until recently that he was controlling something, suddenly finds himself lying motionless in a wooden box, and those around him, realizing that there is no more value from lying down, burn it in an oven. 7/10
June 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
You are no longer interested in the fate of anyone but your own. Your relatives begin to lie, you feel unfaithful and rush to the learned doctors, then to the charlatans, and sometimes to the fortune-tellers. Both the first and the second and the third - completely meaningless, you understand. 6/10
June 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
and others and yourself,actually, so to speak,to taste it,and suddenly you have... khe... khe... sarcoma of lungs... -here a foreigne smirked sweetly,as if the thought of sarcoma gave him pleasure,-yes,sarcoma,- grinning like a cat,he repeated the sound word - and here is your control finished! 5/10
June 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
manage if he is not only deprived of the possibility to make any plan for even a ridiculously short time, well, years, say, a thousand, but cannot even vouch for his own tomorrow? And indeed, - then the unknown turned to Berlioz, - imagine that you will, for example, start to control order 4/10
June 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
- The man himself is in charge - rushed angrily to answer Bezdomnyi on this, admittedly not a very clear question.
- Excuse me,- said the unknown softly,- but in order to manage, it is necessary, after all, to have a precise plan for some, at least some decent term. Let me ask you,how can a man 3/10
June 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Famous Kyivan, Ukrainian and Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov brilliantly described this phenomenon in adialogue between his heroes in "Master and Margarita" novel:
"- But here is the question that worries me: if there is no God, then, you ask, who governs human life and all the order on earth?2/10
June 6, 2025 at 10:13 AM
require any, even tiniest interaction with other people. In other words people with 'external locus of control' are just realists, while those with 'internal' one are just dreamers, who believe in the lie that something important depends on them.

What do you think about this theory? 8/8
June 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I wanted to avoid initially,and also I took the ashtray in vain.So,the question is: where FFS here could be an 'internal locus of control'? If all what happened after I went out of my flat,was out of my control and went not the way I planned.And this happens always,when our decisions and actions 7/8
June 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
some moron had closed the control cabinet (usually open),so I had to travel downstairs to purchase the key from it from concierge. But it wasn't the end. When I wanted to return the keys, concierge went somewhere, and while waiting him I finally went out to smoke, not in my best appearance, which6/8
June 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM