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This was such an important discussion and I cannot recommend these books enough! It’s particularly vital to read them together. Do prompt your libraries to order them, they are incredible sources for teaching and further research on justice, history, philosophy, art, literature, cultures…

YouTube video by The Ruta Association New perspectives on Romani pasts, presents and futures

Here is a recording of our last RUTA webinar. The discussion revolved around new paradigm shifting books by @magdamatache.bsky.social & @madelinepotter.bsky.social, who revisit Romani histories, rethink how they’re theorised with and envision the path to racial justice

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I just attended a panel with Natali at Cafe Kyiv, where she emphasised the active participation of the Romani people in Ukrainian defence and emphasised the need for the state and institution to recognise the crucial socio-political role of the Roma in the Ukrainian society

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According to Tomenko, the current war on Ukraine is revealing a deeper historical parallel. The Roma families, who survived the German Nazi occupation and genocide, are now facing a 2nd war in their lifetime, with many Roma fighting in Ukraine’s defense against the ongoing genocidal Russian invasion

Academia? Not surprised!
forbetterscience.com/2026/02/25/r...

Over at Twitter, an assorted combo of paid russian stooges and probably unpaid useful idiots from academia are involved in another cycle of « imagine if Ru did X » about a bunch of international law violations Russia has been committing for a decade. It’s pathetic.

We’re on! Join us

Hospitals, schools, shopping malls and other civilian facilities were accurately hit

Join RUTA this Friday Feb 27 for this important and exciting webinar on Romani histories and racial justice. 18:00 (Kyiv time)/ 11:00 EST.

Registration link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The occupied territories of Ukraine that the US now treats as merchandise were somebody's homes once.

A reminder to join us this Friday for a crucial RUTA webinar with @magdamatache.bsky.social and @madelinepotter.bsky.social

Registration link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Where are Ukraine's abducted children? Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been abducted by Russian forces in the past four years of war.  They have been placed in Russian re-education camps, adopted by Russian families, or sent f...

The biggest child-abduction and -indoctrination operation in Europe since Naz-erai Germanization of its East www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...

A much-needed analysis of the colonial gaze. There is also much more to be said about the reasons why the Western colonial gaze is so eager to seek out, platform and bond with the Russian colonial gaze

This is what an apartment on the fifth floor in the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih looks like today, damaged by russian shelling during the night. And this happens every day, only the names of cities and streets change...

Hungarian analysts and several EU diplomats in Budapest fear Orbán may be triggering a long-rumored worst-case scenario: using a fabricated national security threat to crack down on the opposition or even cancel the election. This military deployment puts that scenario into play.

💥Trying to lift falling poll numbers, Viktor Orbán is staging a confrontation with Ukraine, sending a video message to Zelensky hoping Kyiv escalates. Note: Russia—not Ukraine—bombed the Druzhba oil pipeline and Orbán sent no similar warning to Moscow.

The sudden pivot towards “actually, there are serious issues with Ukraine’s possible entry into the EU” in Brussels and the capitals was entirely predictable, as folks from the Western Balkans tried to tell you in 2022. It was never a serious policy proposal but a cruel ploy.

While it’s all nauseating, it also seems - alarmingly - not that different from how the US was acting during the Soviet manufactured famine(s) in Ukraine and across Central and Northern Asia. The betrayal of Western ‘allies’ seems like a remarkably reoccurring issue for Europe’s East and beyond…

The new abnormal After four years on high-level alert, defence against invasion becomes a gruelling routine. But could the normalization of war in Ukraine be positive for long-term planning, the public good and the so...

This must-read will make you re-think the end of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Esp those who identify as "anti-war" should read it. For most Ukrainians, what matters more is not when the war ends but how, many have adapted to the realization that the end is not in sight www.eurozine.com/the-new-abno...

Inside the Kyiv Independent: See how we survive the Russia-inflicted energy crisis At 4 p.m. every day, the Kyiv Independent office goes dark. After hours of working without heating, the electricity disappears too. The generator shuts off for thirty minutes to cool down. Laptop scr...

"Sitting in a cold apartment is not the worst thing. What's worse is sitting with electricity and heating while under Russian occupation." kyivindependent.com/in-the-cold-...

In 2022, the world had moral clarity over Russia’s invasion. Now in Ukraine we ask: where has that gone? | Sasha Dovzhyk We could never have imagined such tolerance of Putin’s criminal war. We normalise the horror just to survive, says Sasha Dovzhyk, a writer, editor and cultural manager

All power to the imagination!

“Compromises that feed Russian impunity will not lead us to lasting peace. The political imagination to envision Russian accountability might give us a chance.”

Words by Sasha Dovzhyk @dovzhyk.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ukraine Four Years On: A Lesson in Resistance for the World - Policy Magazine On February 24, 2022, as Russian tanks rolled over Ukraine’s border with Belarus aiming to take Kyiv, many international relations experts blamed NATO

"The Trump administration peddles the idea that meeting Russia halfway requires drawing a border somewhere in Eastern Ukraine, but the reality is that from Russia’s standpoint, meeting them halfway means putting up a new Iron Curtain somewhere in the EU."
www.policymagazine.ca/ukraine-four...

“For dictators, ‘peace’ means not fighting back” Below is the speech given by Nadia Eljadid, a UK-based activist in US organisation Indivisible, at the Ukraine solidarity protest in London on 21 February. (Nadia pictured at the protest above.) It was written by her and fellow Indivisible activist Alyssa Elliott. We hope to publish more of the speeches soon. Solidarity with those facing oppression around the world, from Ukraine to Palestine, from Iran to the US, was a strong theme of the demonstration.

“For dictators, ‘peace’ means not fighting back”

Below is the speech given by Nadia Eljadid, a UK-based activist in US organisation Indivisible, at the Ukraine solidarity protest in London on 21 February. (Nadia pictured at the protest above.) It was written by her and fellow Indivisible activist…

Ukrainians in Ireland: ‘Thousands of people my age are dying. We need a lasting peace’ Four years ago, life changed forever for Ukrainians as Russia launched its invasion. Liz Dunphy spoke with three women living here who are hoping for peace

I spoke to @irishexaminer.bsky.social about the fourth anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Thank you for having me @deshocks.bsky.social !
I think it's my gravest assessment of the situation in all four years of the current war.
www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...

Another year

It feels important and almost urgent to re-share the text by Darya Tsymbalyuk today. "DO NOT DESPAIR. A letter to a scholar whose homeland will be attacked by Russia next."

Glory to Ukraine, its heroes and heroines today and all the days to come. daryatsymbalyuk.com/DO-NOT-DESPAIR

Georgians express solidarity with Ukraine at the Ukrainian Embassy in Tbilisi.

They are singing Oy u Luzi Chervona Kalyna, the song that so many Georgians learned by heart 4 years ago.

To be honest, in 2022-2023, before long-term protests broke out in Georgia, 1/

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Another year of Romani perspectives amid the russian invasion of Ukraine: 1 in 4 Ukrainian Roma families has a member in defence against the russian occupation. So many Roma are fighting back, protecting the Ukrainian society. May the empire fall and the path to racial justice become so much easier