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
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 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 the Russian disinformation warfare, Russian colonialism, and
human rights violations 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. 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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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/
Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/
UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/
Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/
Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
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