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Episode 117: Russian Colonialism 101 with Maksym Eristavi
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Maksym Eristavi is a Ukraine-born 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 and fosters a daily digital audience of hundreds of thousands. 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 him that included championing mainstream English-language coverage of Eastern Europe by indigenous voices. He went from covering both Ukrainian pro-democratic revolutions, being the country’s youngest news anchor and newsroom manager to founding international operations at the leading news startup covering Eastern Europe, and becoming a contributor to leading global outlets, such as RFERL, BBC, CNN, Al-Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Politico, Monocle and the Washington Post. At the same time, Bild and The New York Times called his social media reporting an essential source on the region. He led pioneering English-language coverage of Russian disinformation warfare, Russian colonialism, and the fight for human rights equality in Eastern Europe.
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 perspectives and decolonizes global Ukraine conversations.
Eristavi also pioneered queer representation in Eastern European media and remains one of the few openly queer journalists in the region. In 2021 he co-authored ‘Untapped Power,’ a book promoting the idea of inclusive foreign policy rooted within human rights equality and a decolonized view of Eastern European queerness. He was a 2015 Poynter fellow at Yale University with a focus on informational wars and pan-regional LGBTI civil rights movements. Eristavi was also a 2016-2017 fellow at the Millennium Leadership Program and a former Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council. He was also a 2020-2022 Transatlantic Leadership fellow with a DC-based Center for European Policy Analysis.
In October 2015 Eristavi was featured among the 10 most prominent LGBTI people in Ukraine during the first-ever queer project at the country’s biggest modern art center. In 2022, he was also listed by Queerty as one of the global 50 queer changemakers.
His work and anti-colonial bridge-building made Eristavi a featured speaker at leading universities, many parliaments, and foreign ministries, including hearings at the US Congress and the European Parliament.
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