October 15, 2024

528. Maksym Eristavi - Gaslight, Invade & Extermination - The Mechanics of Russian Colonial Expansionism.

53 minutes

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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