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Oxana Shevel 🇺🇦
@OxanaShevel
Prof @TuftsPoliSci. Post-communism, nationalism, identity, citizenship, memory, religion. 2024 book: 🇷🇺 and 🇺🇦 : Entangled Histories, Diverging States
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    Oxana Shevel 🇺🇦
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    Feb 28, 2025
    @PopovaProf and I wrote about the dangers and symptoms of a lopsided "quick deal" on the war. Read 🧵below and here's 🔗to the piece in @TheNatlInterest nationalinterest.org/feature/be-war…
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    Maria Popova 🇨🇦
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    Feb 28, 2025
    From our new piece w @OxanaShevel "President Trump’s confidence that he can negotiate a lasting peace in the Russo-Ukrainian war should not blind us to the fact that there is no evidence that Pu’s Russia is ready, willing, or interested in compromise... nationalinterest.org/feature/be-war…
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    Oxana Shevel 🇺🇦
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    Mar 31, 2022
    Someone in Cambridge is very confused. What the hell is this supposed to mean?
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    Oxana Shevel 🇺🇦
    @OxanaShevel
    May 25, 2022
    Zelensky today: "It seems Kissinger's calendar shows 1938 not 2022, & he was speaking not in Davos but in Munich. Btw, in 1938 Kissinger's family was escaping Nazi 🇩🇪Germany, & he didn't say that it was necessary 2 adapt to Nazis rather than escape them or fight them." Ouch.
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    Oxana Shevel 🇺🇦
    @OxanaShevel
    Nov 1, 2022
    This has been bugging me a while. Can we stop saying Peter the Great and Catherine the Great? What was "great" about these imperialist dictators? If they are great for Russian imperialists, fine. For the rest of us can they be Peter I and Catherine II? Free your mind.
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    Oxana Shevel 🇺🇦
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    May 25, 2022
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    2/2: Zelensky rightly state that "we need to do everything possible so that the world develops a stable habit of paying attention to 🇺🇦. So that interests of Ukrainians are not cancelled by the interests of those who are in a hurry for their next appointment with the dictator."
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    Oxana Shevel 🇺🇦
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    May 25, 2022
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    Ze made 2 other important points. 1st, that "great geopoliticians" don't want "to see regular people, millions of those who live on territories they propose to trade for illusion of peace. We need to always see the people and remember that values is not an empty word". 1/2
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    Oxana Shevel 🇺🇦
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    Nov 19, 2022
    Ukrainian media interviews with people from liberated territories should be translated & shared more widely. These interviews convey essence of occupation & resistance. Store clerks displaying sponges in blue & yellow colors. Chechens burning hair on the head of man they detained
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    Oxana Shevel 🇺🇦
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    Dec 15, 2022
    Natalia Nestor, the deputy director of Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise: The body of a seven-year-old girl, she said, was exhumed with seven different traces of sperm inside her corpse, believed to belong to different Russian men. 
    UK to train Ukrainian judges to prosecute mass Russian war crimes
    From express.co.uk
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    Oxana Shevel 🇺🇦
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    Jun 4, 2024
    “Most terrible thing is not what I’m telling you now. Most terrible thing is that it’s happening now in the occupied territories.” Systematic & ongoing torture & sexual violence under occupation is not “peace”. Shame on all selling occupation as “solution”
    Survivors say Russia is waging a war of sexual violence in occupied areas of Ukraine. Men are often...
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    Oxana Shevel 🇺🇦
    @OxanaShevel
    Oct 15, 2023
    Russian settler colonialism in Crimea. 🇺🇦 research institute reports that 700K(!) moved to occupied Crimea from 🇷🇺 since 2014 when population was some 2.3 mil, & some 70K left & r now IDPs in 🇺🇦. Even greater population replacement is now going on newly occupied territories. 1/
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    Oxana Shevel 🇺🇦
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    Apr 1, 2022
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    Based on interpretations offered these choices emerge. So which one is it?
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    Oxana Shevel 🇺🇦
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    Feb 9, 2024
    Replying to @SevaUT
    Is there a textual transcript of this somewhere? I can't bear to look at or hear either of them but I want to know about the Ukrainian witch...
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    Oxana Shevel 🇺🇦
    @OxanaShevel
    Jan 15, 2023
    “Russian forces have looted tens of thousands of pieces, including avant-garde oil paintings and Scythian gold. Experts say it is the biggest art heist since the Nazis in World War II, intended to strip Ukraine of its cultural heritage.” #WarCrimesofRussia
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    New York Times World
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    Jan 15, 2023
    Russians dragged bronze statues from parks, lifted books from a scientific library, boxed up the 200-year-old bones of Grigory Potemkin, and even stole a raccoon from the zoo, leaving behind a trail of vacant cages, empty pedestals and smashed glass. nyti.ms/3ZwCKwJ
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    Oxana Shevel 🇺🇦
    @OxanaShevel
    Feb 22, 2025
    "Within days of the occupation, Russian soldiers burst into school libraries across the district. They hauled off Ukrainian books into the hills above the town, where they dumped them in vast piles, doused them in kerosene and set them alight." But let's pretend war is about NATO
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    peter pomerantsev
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    Feb 22, 2025
    Russia is trying not just to capture Ukrainian territory, but obliterate its identity. Here’s how to make Putin accountable for ‘cultural genocide’ economist.com/1843/2025/02/2…
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