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Shame for La Biennale di Venezia for allowing Russia back in. Full scale invasion of Ukraine is ongoing. ART is POLITICS, it is ACTION, let’s sign this petition!
Personally, it’s the best film I’ve seen in years. It explores memory and the way memory and imagination flow into each other. A film where you sense images that are never shown and you begin constructing your own. Deeply touching
Despite invading Ukraine and waging a hybrid war against Europe, not to mention committing daily war crimes against civilians, the Italians have allowed the Russian terror state to reopen its pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2026 to spread its propaganda through 'art'.
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Pleased to see my article published today!
For those who speak of russian “liberation” and the prosperity it supposedly brought: Schirwindt, the first German town occupied by the Soviet army - i.e., completely destroyed. Today known as Kutuzovo, it has not been rebuilt and, acc. to Wikipedia, looks much as it did immediately after the war.
"One of Atesh’s most significant achievements has been its ability to recruit and work with Russian soldiers who want to undermine Moscow’s war effort from the inside. " cepa.org/article/behi...
Since 2008, Estonia has convicted 19 Russia-linked spies — more than twice as many as Germany. One reason for this discrepancy is that Western countries prioritized counterterrorism over countering Russian espionage after the Cold War.
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This is a 4th year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I am not Ukranian, so I am only a witness to the pain of others. My hope is alive that Ukraine will prevail despite monsters and fools trying to divide again what does not belong to them.
Russian empire in 2008
Grinius writes that russian politicians at the time preferred the verb "okruglit’ (“to round off”) instead of “to seize” or “to annex” when speaking about taking territory from another state - because, as the logic went, such a seizure made one’s own state “more rounded.”
#russiacolonialism #empire
Russian empire in 1900's
Reading memoirs about the nineteenth-century Russian Empire, the future Lithuanian president Kazys Grinius recalls a striking “political truth” about colonialism and russian empire he learned at school - during a language lesson.
#Grinius #russiaisempire
At Milan–Cortina 2026, Olena Smaga competed with the message “Remembrance is not a Violation” on her glove, supporting skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych. “No one can forbid memory — we will remember,” she said.
📷: NOC Ukraine
Over on ‘All Old Strange Things’ I wrote about the translated collection of Tomas Venclova’s latest poetry, ‘The Grove of the Eumenides’ open.substack.com/pub/drfranci... 🇱🇹✍️
After 2000, the structure underwent one more costume change, donning pitched roofs, timber cladding, and chalet fantasies in order to broadcast coziness and pastoral comfort. What began as an imported vision of universal modernity thus ends as a carefully staged illusion of “tradition”.
#Ignalina
By the late 1970s, this Soviet transparency proved inconvenient, and the glass pavilion gave way to brick. Though the building retreated into itself, the social project it served was quietly freezing.
#SovietHeritage #SovietModernism #ModernismGoneWrong #sovietunion
Metamorphoses of the Žuvėdra building in Ignalina resemble an architectural comedy of errors. In 1962, a glass pavilion was planted into its setting as a manifesto of optimism and openness - while copying modernist language spectacularly indifferent to local climate, geography, and common sense.
Photo of the book page with the cited quote.
Quote of the day. Edward Thompson described French 1968 as a "revolutionary psychodrama" of the Althusserian "lumpen-intelligentsia".
(From Daniel Gordon's latest text on British students and intellectuals and 1968 in the edited volumne "Les passeurs de révolte")
Museo del Louvre - 1947
#Photography #PierreJahan
The US needs Greenland so much for national security that it has closed all but one of its bases there and keeps only 150 soldiers on the island, while Denmark would allow as many US troops as it wants
The only thing that the russian state built in the city of Donetsk in 12 years of occupation have been filtration camps. They recycled former Ukrainian art centres for this purpose at that.
Amazing. More power to the protests
A brilliant short piece on war and its monsters by @katetsurkan.bsky.social in La Piccioleta Barca: www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/iron-j...
The Khanenko Museum has won Project of Influence 2025, one of only two global awards from The Best in Heritage. Honoured for turning wartime challenges into cultural strength, the museum was praised as a symbol of resilience and inspiration for the future.
📷: The Khanenko Museum
#Belarus The heartbreaking and dark reality of what we face. Writer Ales Palynski died at the age of 58, and no one can bury him in Belarus. His wife and daughter are in jail. His son, my colleague, great journalist and musician, fled and now lives in exile. Painful.
That’s horrible to death. Two 13-year-old brothers weighing only 8.5 kg each were found bedridden in frontline Pokrovsk.
They survived over a year under the care of their 10-year-old brother, Platón, after their grandmother's death, Ukrainska Pravda reports. 1/
Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko inside the damaged part of the Cabinet of Ministers building in Kyiv, which was attacked by Russian drones.
It’s always intriguing to stumble upon familiar words in Vilnius news from the Russian imperial period — like Azov and Don (Cossacks) — alongside a glimpse of a successful economic institution of that time, the Азовсько-донський банк (Azov-Don Bank), opening a branch in the city. #Azov #Vilnius
#SomethingLikeResearch #soccer #football
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Call for Papers: Eastern Marxisms.
We are planning a special issue of Historical Materialism on Eastern Marxisms, the distinctive tradition of post-war critical and radical thought in East and Central Europe. Please take a look at the extended call, share with your networks and consider applying.
Call for Papers: Third Annual Baltic Study Group Workshop, The University of Glasgow, 30-31 October 2025. Please see below for full details.
Please send a 250-word abstract and a 150-word bio note by 1 August 2025 to baseesbalticstudiesgroup@gmail.com
Russian drone attack vs Ukraine drone attack