Megan Buskey
@meganbuskey.bsky.social
Ukrainian history, politics, and culture. I also wrote a book called UKRAINE IS NOT DEAD YET (ibidem, 2023). All views my own.
Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was abused, starved, tortured, and humiliated in Russian captivity. Then they fractured her skull and stabbed her to death.
Ukrainian police reports journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna suffered skull fracture in Russian captivity
Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, who died in Russian captivity, suffered a fractured occipital bone while being held at a pretrial detention center in…
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“We talk about topics that were taboo for a long time and many of them do not fit into the current national canon of history either. As a result, people often keep silent about them or speak about them reluctantly. But the time for a serious conversation about difficult topics came long ago.”
Family Archives and Flowers Instead of Concrete: The Second World War in Research and Memory - Спільне Commons
Interview with Andrii Usach: Historian, Chair of the After Silence NGO
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Virginia Woolf on friendship: “Here we sit in dark tunnels, tapping on the walls” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
‘To Share Is Our Duty’ | Hermione Lee
Two consummate Virginia Woolf scholars have added more than 1,400 letters to the corpus. On show are charm, careful condolence, generosity, candor about her reading and writing, and a belief that “com...
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Aid to Ukraine from 2022-2026 was a rounding error. We used more in the first two weeks of the Iran war than we provided in the 4 years of aid to Ukraine.
Kate from Kharkiv@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 5mo agoHegseth: "We're still dealing with the environment Joe Biden created—depleting our stockpiles and sending them to Ukraine instead of our own military. Every time we face a challenge, it traces back to 'Well, sent it to Ukraine.'" It looks like they’re just going to blame Ukraine
With Russia's full-scale invasion, contextualizing Ukraine’s Soviet past became more complicated than ever. An essay I wrote for @thepointmag.bsky.social looks at what its meant for the museum holding Ukraine's largest collection of Soviet socialist realist art. thepointmag.com/corresponden...
Tragic Heritage | The Point Magazine
The questions surrounding this small museum can be extended to the country at large: What value does Soviet heritage have in Ukraine now?
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
“Granny’s apartment at least has a gas stove, meaning we can pour boiling water into rubber hot water bottles and tie them to her body. “Why can’t anyone do anything to make Putin stop?” she cries, complaining that the cold gnaws into every bone of her body.” www.politico.eu/article/ukra...
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The translation of Nesterenko was provided by Simon Pirani, the editor of “Voices Against Putin’s War,” a collection of court speeches by modern Russian dissidents published by Resistance Books. You can find all the info and a link to a free PDF here: ukraine-solidarity.org/voices-again...
Voices Against Putin’s War
Voices Against Putin’s War: protesters’ defiant speeches in Russian courts, is published in October 2025 by Resistance Books. □ Order the paperback from Resistance Books here. □ Download a free PDF…
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Worthwhile critique herein: It is "striking how few thinkers propose to bring psychoanalysis into politics as a technical craft that might make us more effective political agents, more endowed with the judgment & tact required to engage our fellow humans." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious
What has returned of late is not the unconscious itself, but the felt need, in some quarters, for the unconscious and...
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"In this war there exists a vast territory of silence – a space for people’s opinions, doubts and decisions, which find no path to public expression, and may not even be fully formed as political positions or judgements." www.equator.org/articles/the...
The Demand for Silence • EQUATOR
Everyone wants Ukraine to be a nation of heroes – but no one wants to talk about the violence required to sustain armed resistance to Russia’s invasion
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“For Freud, repetition is a bad thing. He used the word to describe a pathological compulsion to reenact a trauma... Jonathan, however, proposed that there is a good, healthy kind of repetition that takes place between an exemplar and the person whose admiration they inspire.”
Jonathan Lear (1948-2025) | The Point Magazine
Jonathan Lear, who died last month at his home in Hyde Park, Chicago, was, in addition to being a distinguished professor in the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought and the author of s...
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Last month in Kyiv, I met up with the writer Artem Chapeye, a pacifist who joined the army in 2022 remains there. His decision exemplifies how Ukrainians are taking matters into their own hands, no matter what Western leaders do. @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2018...
The Ukrainian Anarchist Pacifist Poet Whom Putin Drove to Take Up Arms
Artem Chapeye once spent his time translating Gandhi and Chomsky and getting published in The New Yorker. Then, in 2022, he joined the army.
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Free link: on.ft.com/435Cvfi Ukraine hit Russian energy sites with US help
Ukraine hit Russian energy sites with US help
[FREE TO READ] Trump administration has supported Kyiv’s operations since summer in co-ordinated push to weaken Moscow
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Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 10mo agoThe previously unreported support has intensified since midsummer and has been crucial in helping Ukraine carry out attacks that Joe Biden’s White House discouraged, according to multiple Ukrainian and US officials familiar with the campaign. on.ft.com/3W1U8c0
“Psychoanalysis is itself a manifestation of love." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/b...
Jonathan Lear, Philosopher Who Embraced Freud, Dies at 76
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Ukrainian gymnast Sasha, who lost her leg to Russian shelling in 2022, just won gold at the Black Sea Cup.
Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal, but Israelis refuse to see it. This has historical parallels—and roots in Israel’s foundation By Omer Bartov October 8, 2025 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...
A state of denial
Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal, but Israelis refuse to see it. This has historical parallels—and roots in Israel’s foundation
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Striking how far the Russian drones penetrated into Poland. These were no mere trespasses near Polish borders. Map from @thestudyofwar.bsky.social
Russia looted his artworks and killed his great-grandson, an artist. 🧵 1/4 ⬇️
Interesting thing about Colbert—something that sets him apart from the other late-night comedy hosts over the decades: Paar, Carson, Leno, Letterman, Conan, the Jimmys, et al.—is his willingness to be entirely candid (while remaining winsome) about his thoughts & feelings on morally weighty matters.
WHAT PUNISHMENTS ARE NOT GIFTS
YouTube video by PHILIP CHIRCOP
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I’m delighted to be in Vienna this June as a guest of the Institute of Human Sciences, where I’ll be getting some pages together for another nonfiction book project about Ukraine. Drop a line if in Wien! www.iwm.at/fellow/megan...
Megan Buskey
Independent writer and scholar
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"A lot of problematic stuff is sold under the guise of 'help'. Everybody wants to help. What does that mean?" [Smiles]. revisionsjournal.com/en/page/beat...
Profound loss, agency and justice: an interview with psychoanalyst Beatrice Patsalides Hofmann
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There are few chronicles of life in Ukraine in the 1990s (a fascinating period), and the novel ROCK, PAPER, GRENADE by Artem Chekh, published this week in English translation by @sevenstories.bsky.social, is unforgettable. IMO one of contemporary Ukrainian literature's best showings in the US.
💢 Zelenskyy said Russia violated the “Easter truce” 2,935 times: 96 assaults, 1,882 attacks on Ukrainian positions (812 with heavy weapons), and over 950 FPV drone strikes. Ukraine’s response, he said, will “mirror” Russian actions.
This message just went out to Ukrainians who were told they had to immediately leave the US "in error"
Pablo Manríquez@pabloreports.bsky.social · last yr.SCOOP: Ukrainian constituents from at least one Hill office are receiving generic emails from CBP telling them their parole status under the U4U program has been immediately revoked—and they must self-deport.
I recently saw an extraordinary film by the Ukrainian artist Dana Kavelina, It Can't be that Nothing Can Be Returned. Increasingly I think the best ways to capture the agony of the full scale war are to reach for metaphor, fantasy and surrealism as this work does www.instagram.com/p/DHKb3V4O_h...
I’m getting word that the International and Foreign Language Education Office at the Dept. of Ed is very likely being liquidated. In my career I’ve been a part of three successful Title VI NRC/FLAS grants, and wrote/directed a Fulbright-Hays program in 2011. A building block of my career crumbling.
Jealous of Berkeley dwellers who get to access to this wonderful upcoming survey of Ukrainian cinema bampfa.org/program/ukra...
Ukrainian Cinema: Poetry and Resistance
The historian Timothy Snyder considers Ukraine to be part of the “bloodlands,” a blighted region in Eastern Europe that was invaded and occupied by the major totalitarian regimes of the twentieth cent...
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"Between Tatlin and Malevich, El Lissitzky and Anatol Petrytsky, & the Alexanders Archipenko and Dovzhenko, there was barely a Russian avant-garde without artists of Ukrainian heritage. This show confirms that some things are so overdue they become punctual again." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Should We View Tatlin as a Russian Constructivist or a Ukrainian?
In “Tatlin: Kyiv,” at the Ukrainian Museum, the revolutionary artist—a star of the avant-garde while the Soviet Union still permitted one—is Volodymyr, not Vladimir.
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