‘We Are Not Doing Anything Illegal, Why Be Anonymous?’ — Interview with Maxim Kondratiev from Avtozak LIVE

By 11111 &23%#719, May 26, 2022

Maxim Kondratiev is a coordinator of Avtozak LIVE, an independent media that covers protests and the violations of rights in Russia. Avtozak LIVE is mostly active on Telegram, where their channel has almost 51.000 followers. We talked with Maxim in early May via Zoom. He is currently residing in a migration centre in the Netherlands, [...]

Tactical Tech – In the loop Ukraine edition

By Maria van der Togt, May 11, 2022

🄸🄽 🅃🄷🄴 🄻🄾🄾🄿Ukraine special edition Tactical Tech is an international NGO that engages with citizens and civil-society organizations to explore and mitigate the impacts of technology on society. Their vision is a world where digital technologies can contribute to a more equitable, democratic, and sustainable society. To enable this change, they investigate how digital technologies [...]

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 9

By Svitlana Matviyenko, May 10, 2022

April 13 – May 8, 2022 If you do not know Russian or if you just focus on the voice’s timbre and the rhythm of this brief conversation, it feels comforting. You’d immediately sense this young woman and man are attracted to one another. They definitely have a bond and, possibly, even a passion. You [...]

Vasyl Cherepanyn on the Aftermath of the Revolutions

By 11111 &23%#719, May 4, 2022

The first edition of the Kyiv Biennial named The School of Kyiv took place in 2015. By adapting, or rather reappropriating the well-known and highly commercial format of the international exhibition, Vasyl Cherepanyn, one of the organizers of the Biennial, sought to reflect the Maidan revolution in a thematic format of education. The school epitomized [...]

Reflexions on Navigating (Dis)information

By Maria van der Togt, May 3, 2022

We met around 8, on a Thursday evening[1]. Welcomed by the smell of homemade soup. Courtesy of Mirror Soup Kitchen Lviv. Hackers, artists, researchers, journalists, and passerby’s filled their bellies with the very same soup that’s providing essential sustenance a mere 1.362km away. The very same recipe, cooked on the very same day. It tasted [...]

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 [...]

Petition in Help of Sasha Skochilenko

By Maria van der Togt, April 25, 2022

Sign petition here. On April 13, a Saint Petersburg court sent the artist/musician to a pre-trial detention center. She faces between 5 and 10 years of imprisonment because, on March 31, she swapped price tags with stickers containing information about the actions of Russian soldiers in Mariupol in the “Perekrestok” supermarket. She is now accused [...]

The Precipice – Ukraine’s Inter-White War Is Just the Beginning

By Franco "Bifo" Berardi, April 15, 2022

(Originally published in Italian on NOT (April 12th, 2022), translated by Tommaso Campagna and Laurence Scherz @INC) The Precipice – Ukraine’s Inter-White War Is Just the Beginning: Welcome to the Geopolitics of Chaos By Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi This is not the time of Your judgment, Francis punctuated, addressing God from the empty Square on Easter [...]

Mark Deuze in Conversation with Ukrainian Journalists

By Maria van der Togt, April 14, 2022

Mark Deuze is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. In light of current events, he initiated a series of Zoom interviews with Ukrainian (and East European) journalists working in Ukraine. Below you can find the first two interviews. Or you can watch them on Mark Deuze’s YouTube account: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrAM_FOAyARuhku_HHVRFgQ. [...]

Dispatches from the Place of Imminence, part 8

By Svitlana Matviyenko, April 12, 2022

March 29 – April 12, 2022 Today is the 48th day of war. For last two weeks our region has been hit several times: Khmelnytsky, Slavuta, Shepetivka, and Starokostantyniv. In all these cases, as far as we know, the Russians attacked oil refineries and gas stations to interrupt seasonal agricultural works and destroyed a small [...]