Posts By: Karyna Lazaruk

Roots and Consequences

By Karyna Lazaruk, April 25, 2022

Let me start this blog posting with a the list of Russian wars over the past 30 years: Georgia (1991-1993), Abkhasia (1991-1993), Transnistria (1992), North Ossetia-Alania (1992), Tajikistan (1992-1997), Chechnya (1994-1996), Dagestan (1999), Chechnya (1999-2009), Georgia (2008), South Ossetia and Abkhazia, North Caucasus (2009-2017), Ukraine (2014 – present), Syria (2015 – present), Central African Republic [...]

Massacre Parade in Berlin

By Karyna Lazaruk, April 7, 2022

The 3th of April was the day when all of the world had seen the photos, videos and witnesses of the massacre by russian murderers in Bucha. My social networks accounts were full of “sensitive content” that day, the hashtags #bucha and #buchamassacre blocked by platforms because of extreme violence imprinted in these pictures: tortured [...]

Bunk Debunkers: Warfakes as Russian War Participatory Propaganda

By Karyna Lazaruk, April 5, 2022

Project by: Karyna Lazaruk and Marc Tuters (project leaders), with Borka Balogh, Marta Ceccarelli, Emillie de Keulenaar, Kiara Khorram, Devin Mitter, Son Nguyen, Stijn Peeters, Emilie Schwantzer, Cemal Tahir and Alexander Teggin. Warfakes is a popular Russian language telegram channel that, along with its English language website Waronfakes.com, emerged in the first few days of [...]

My Digital Armpits Stink

By Karyna Lazaruk, March 9, 2022

March 4th, day 9 of this shit. I’m on edge. I restlessly check my phone. Fuck, so agitating.. I go to the bathroom with my phone, I go to sleep with my phone, I wake up at night and check my phone. When I hear an air raid siren, the first thing I think about  [...]

Pulsations of Dis/information: Diary of Kateryna Kobzdar, Lviv-Berlin, part 2

By Karyna Lazaruk, March 4, 2022

“I never thought I’ll be a refugee,” a colleague wrote in a Facebook group chat. Me neither. While the Ukrainian army and citizens bravely defend my homeland, I write this diary from Berlin. I check if my friends in Kyiv are fine by the green circle in the Facebook chat or through the “last seen” [...]