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It is often believed that Imperial Russia had no settled black population. In the empire's south, however, there were villages inhabited by people of African descent. What do we know about them? A 🧵 on the tsarist black subjects. 1/

The banality of evil has many names, and one of them is Andrei Kelin, Russia's ambassador to the UK. Speaking about the destruction of Mariupol with a smile on his face, he says it should have surrendered sooner. This is a smile of a butcher over tens of thousands of dead bodies.

Wir laden herzlich zum Oberseminar des Lehrstuhls für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte mit dem Schwerpunkt Geschichte Osteuropas ein. Inhaltliche Schwerpunkte in diesem Semester: Zwangsmigration, Zentralasien und Ukraine. osteuropa.phil.fau.de/oberseminar/

In an interview with the Russian Orthodox Church’s official TV channel, Metropolitan Evgenii of Ekaterinburg described Russia’s war in Ukraine as a “healing operation” to “cure” the “Little Russian people” of their “contagion and madness.” The idea that Ukrainstvo (Ukrainian

"Ukraine nowhere near":

A very interesting study on Russia’s newest “anti-colonial” narrative.

There are books you want to grab right away, and this one tops the list.

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Today, Tehran, Pyongyang, and Beijing are key backers of Russia’s war effort. But they share a deeper history: under the last tsar, Iran, China, and Korea all fell prey to its colonial appetite. My piece on Russia in the Global South for New Lines Magazine. newlinesmag.com/essays/the-his…

The portrayal of Russia as a perennial foe of Western imperialism has become a cornerstone of the Kremlin’s diplomacy. - Oleksandr Polianichev challenges this growing political mythology, for New Lines Magazine newlinesmag.com/essays/the-his…

A fascinating essay on Ru colonialism in Asia and the Middle East: "The fundamental difference between Western European and Russian imperial histories lies in Russia’s systematic silencing and emphatic denial of its own colonial record." newlinesmag.com/essays/the-his…