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Mikhail Zygar
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Gay
DOB: 31 January 1981
Ethnicity: White - Russian
Occupation: Journalist, writer, activist
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"On February 7 [2022], French president Emmanuel Macron arrives in Moscow and holds a six-hour talk with Putin late into the night. Or rather, according to a high-ranking French diplomat, he listens to Putin’s six-hour history lecture. At a joint press conference with the French president, Putin loses his cool, slamming Zelensky’s unwillingness to abide by the Minsk agreements: “The current president recently stated he doesn’t like a single point of the Minsk agreements. Like it or not, be patient, my beauty. There’s no other way!” Russian journalists are shocked: many recognize the source of this statement, from the punk band Krasnaya Plesen (Red Mold), popular in Russia in the 1990s. The song in question is about necrophilia. The full chorus, which Putin quoted from, goes as follows: The beauty sleeps in her coffin. I creep up and fuck. Like it or not, sleep, my beauty!"
Mikhail Zygar, War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
That's absolutely horrible.
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Remembering Navalny
There’s shoddy work everywhere. Even great publications suffer ridiculous failures. This is the cover of the new issue of the New Yorker. What ridiculous crap. (You can probably guess who that is supposed to be.) Source: Sergei Parkhomenko (Facebook), 12 October 2024. Translated by the Russian Reader I wouldn’t want Navalny to be remembered the way he has been remembered this past year. I…
#Alexei Navalny#electoral fraud#Mikhail Zygar#Russian opposition#Sergei Parkhomenko#The New Yorker#Vladimir Ponizovskiy#Vladimir Putin
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There are so many batshit bad history things about Putin's interview, but saying Ukrainian identity is Polish propaganda and WWII was Poland's fault for not giving Germany Danzig and it was justice for what Poland did to Czechoslovakia and ahhhhhhhhhh. Like yes, Poland was absolutely shit at international relations in the 1920s and 30s. Doesn't mean Nazi propaganda is correct.
Russia’s hated of Poland... frankly incredible.
#...different peoples and nations having incredibly long histories tied to the same piece of land... surely nothing will go wrong? /s#anyway read Mikhail Zygar or Serhii Plokhy if you want to know why Putin's history is right wing nationalist shit#Poland was objectively awful though in the interwar period cannot deny#but that doesn't...justify... any of it
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El hombre que podría desafiar a Putin
Por Mikhail Zygar Al parecer, el presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, por fin se dio cuenta de que la guerra en Ucrania creó a un competidor peligroso para su poder: Yevgeny Prigozhin, fundador de la empresa militar privada Grupo Wagner, cuyas tropas combaten junto al ejército ruso. Dependiendo del punto de vista de cada persona, Prigozhin podría ser considerado la persona del año o el villano…
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War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance by Mikhail Zygar
#books#ukraine#russia#ukrainian history#bookblr#vladimir putin#russian war on ukraine#book covers#slavic#current events
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How would you summarize your reading choices for this year?
The Sandman.
But well, if we think about proper books, I learned a lot more about Soviet Russia and the feel of it through such books as:
- Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- I love Russia by Elena Kostyuchenko
- Dangerous Soviet Things by Aleksandra Arkhipova
- The Climb by Anatolii Boukreev
- War and Punishment by Mikhail Zygar
- and multiple novels by the great Soviet sci fi writers - The Strugatsky Brothers.
I think I understand my own country a lot more now. Which doesn't mean I stand by its choices, of course.
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sorry if this is too broad a question but do you have any recommendations of books/general literature about Eastern European history/politics (like fall of USSR-now)? i'm realising with keeping up with the war in Ukraine i don't know nearly enough about Eastern Europe (esp for a western leftist). I know you really like Slavenka Drakulić's work so I thought you might know of some others in that area. i'm sorry if you've been asked this before/it's too much bother + thank you in advance! <3
Oh, I'm always happy to answer this question/provide book recommendations, so no worries :)
Apart from Slavenka Drakulić's work, I would say the following, off the top of my head and looking at my bookshelves:
Anything by Anna Politkovskaya
Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine by Sophie Pinkham (this one would be interesting now considering it came out not too long after Maidan and the Crimea and other annexations)
Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia by Anne Garrels
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took On The West by Catherine Belton
The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia by Brian Hall
In Europe's Shadow by Robert D. Kaplan (and, tentatively, his Balkan Ghosts, just because there's both some skew and quite a bit of stereotyping)
The Balkans by Misha Glenny
The Future is History by Masha Gessen (and really, any of their books, tbh)
Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship by Andrew Wilson
Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation by Laura Silber and Allen Little
The Invention of Russia: The Rise of Putin and the Age of Fake News by Arkady Ostrovsky
Unequal under Socialist: Race, Women, and Transnationalism in Bulgaria by Miglena S. Todorova
All The Kremlin's Men by Mikhail Zygar
Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe and Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum
Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny by Witold Szabłowski
The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe by Marci Shore
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Tim Mohr
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy
Orbanland: Why Viktor Orbán's Hungary Matters by Lasse Skytt
Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes, Through Darkness and Light by Caroline Eden
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague by Timothy Garton Ash
And then anything my mutuals/followers would recommend, of course.
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Russian court sentences exiled journalist Mikhail Zygar in absentia
A Moscow court sentenced exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar to eight and a half years in prison in absentia for spreading “fake news” about the Russian army, as part of Russia’s intensifying crac Source : kyivindependent.com/russian-c…
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As soon as the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, prominent independent Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar circulated a Facebook petition signed first by hundreds of his cultural and journalistic contacts and then by thousands of others. That act led to a new law in Russia criminalizing criticism of the war, and Zygar fled Russia. In his time as a journalist, Zygar has interviewed President Zelensky and had access to many of the major players—from politicians to oligarchs. As an expert on Putin’s moods and behavior, he has spent years studying the Kremlin’s plan regarding Ukraine, and here, in clear, chronological order he explains how we got here.
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Russia puts more Kremlin critics on a wanted list as its crackdown on dissent reaches new levels
MOSCOW: Russian authorities have put more Kremlin critics on a wanted list as its crackdown against dissent reaches unprecedented levels since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine more than two years ago. Independent Russian news outlet Mediazona reported Tuesday that it found women’s rights activist Darya Serenko and prominent journalist and author Mikhail Zygar in the Interior Ministry’s database of…
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North Korea Sounds Nice
Chulpan Khamatova, Sobchak Live, 6 June 2012 [Ksenia] Sobchak: You want your children to live in a stable country without revolution? [Chulpan] Khamatova: Without revolution. It could be some kind of changes in mindset. Without revolutions. I don’t want revolution. I’m categorical on this point, because the heads of completely innocent people fly in revolution and all these wars. I don’t think…
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#charities in Russia#Chulpan Khamatova#Gift of Life Foundation#Ksenia Sobchak#Mikhail Zygar#North Korea#Yuri Shevchuk
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Russia Opens Criminal Case Against Journalist Zygar Over ‘War Fakes’ Russian authorities have pressed criminal charges against journalist Mikhail Zygar for spreading “fake news” about the Russian military, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported on Wednesday, citing an anonymous law enforcement source. According to the Baza Telegram channel, which is purported to have links to Russian law enforcement, Zygar is accused of spreading false information on social media about atrocities committed by the Russian army in the Ukrainian city of Bucha. Read more | Subscribe to our channel
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