the first step towards ending russia.

A path towards ending russian imperialism has a much easier starting point than you think.

here is what’s in store for you this week:

• Researchers and storytellers about russian colonialism are often pushed out of global decolonisation conversations. Why and what’s wrong with that?

• How exactly does Ukraine have more in common with the Global South than most realise?

• “Who else do you know in the world that lives under the paths of rockets, where pieces are designed to fall from the sky, or blow up entirely, and are told that things are ok?” Colonial debris quite literally keeps falling on the heads of Qazaqs.

• Why ‘good russians’ are dangerous.

• There’s no such thing as a ‘neutral’ russian culture: it has always benefited from russian imperialism.

Curious for more? Let’s go.

Russian Colonialism 101 is the first newsletter to shed light on Russian colonialism and is part of the Volya Hub network. What is happening to Ukraine has happened many times before, and the rest of the world has been conditioned to overlook or misdiagnose it. This isn’t history. It’s how you stop being shocked by what was always predictable.

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