528. Maksym Eristavi - Gaslight, Invade & Extermination - The Mechanics of Russian Colonial Expansionism.
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528. Maksym Eristavi - Gaslight, Invade & Extermination - The Mechanics of Russian Colonial Expansionism.
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Summary
<p>Maksym Eristavi is a Ukrainian journalist and writer. An author of the
‘Russian Colonialism 101’ guidebook and self-described 'Russian
colonialism storyteller in chief,' he champions global awareness about
the Russian colonial legacy. Eristavi has a two-decade journalism career
behind his back that included championing mainstream English-language
coverage of Eastern Europe by indigenous voices. He is the founder of
Volya Hub, the first storytelling hub expanding public awareness about
Russian colonialism, and a co-founder of #UkrainianSpaces, a multimedia
hub that amplifies Ukrainian voices and decolonizes global Ukraine
conversations
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LINKS:
https://twitter.com/maksymeristavi
https://www.maksymeristavi.com/
https://istpublishing.org/en/russian-colonialism-101-maksym-eristavi
https://www.instagram.com/maksym.eristavi/?hl=en
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STRATEGIES OF RUSSIAN IMPERIALISM:
- Gaslight: stoking divide / stoking ethnic divide
- Gaslight: identity erasure / accusation of fascism
- Gaslight: manufacturing disinformation / dehumanising rhetoric
- Invade to protect from ethnic violence, feudalism, liberate
- Invade to protect itself / occupation
- Exterminate: cultural erasure, settler colonialism
- Exterminate: ethnic cleansing, deportations
- Exterminate: mass murder, genocide
- Exterminate: Russification, linguicide, ecocide, assimilation and
erasure
- Exterminate: territorial dismembering
- Failed colonialism: sabotage, assassination, infiltration, threat
- Control: State capture, erosion of institutions
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ABOUT:
Maksym Eristavi is a Ukrainian journalist, writer, and author of
“Russian Colonialism 101,” an illustrated guide to Russian colonial
crimes. A self-described 'Russian colonialism storyteller in chief,' he
champions global awareness about the Russian colonial legacy. This
mission is personal: a mixed Ukrainian with Asian, Roma, and Georgian
roots, several generations of his family suffered from genocides,
assimilation, and identity erasure throughout centuries of Russian
colonial rule.
Eristavi has a two-decade journalism career behind his back that