Zelensky's Covid-19 Disaster
President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week in Zagreb that Ukraine is currently experiencing a second wave of Covid-19 infections and that the country’s...
Black Hole Sun
KYIV. The only thing worse than not having a plan is the stress of having one and constantly not being able to execute it. The standoff between Lukashenko...
Rat King Coronation
Politics really is downstream of culture :-) Today’s packed, nearly mask-free Trump campaign stop in Duvall County, Florida is probably the only stunt than...
Secret Inauguration
September 23, 2020. Mark it in your calendar. (to be continued)
A Cyprian's Supper
We left off yesterday talking about what Dasein (In-der-Welt-sein) means à la Heidegger and recommending Kolesnikov’s article that compares the ongoing...
Balaclavas Inside Out
(Demonstrator from the Women’s March held in Minsk on September 19, 2020. The sign reads, “Balaclavas Inside Out) Andrei Kolesnikov at the Moscow Carnegie...
Moscow Mechanism Mumbling
There has been a lot of chatter recently about getting the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to send a bunch of rapporteurs to Belarus to...
Frogs for Dinner
Breaking down large communities of Lukashenko loyalists into smaller, more soluble groupings that can be digested and re-absorbed into Belarusian civil...
The Disappeared
On September 16, 1999, former Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister and ex-head of the Central Election Commission Viktor Gonchar and his friend, businessman...
Autumnal Cannibalism
Putin’s Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia recognizes Lukashenko as the legitimate president of Belarus and counterpart of Putin in interstate relations. ✔️...
Pants on Fire
Lukashenko is finished. So is Putin. It’s shocking what you can get away with, as long as you don’t dress or act like a hipster. Just ask Vladimir Putin and...
Там Нас Нет
At least four - and probably many more - English-language journalists say Putin’s meeting with Lukashenko in Sochi on Monday could determine the outcome of...
Big Party in Minsk
Batshit Ukrainian Diplomacy
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba blurted out in an interview published on September 8, 2020 that he wanted to hear the position of the Belarusian...
With All Due Respect
It is truly fascinating how the differences between blueticks and their native counterparts revolve around *which* specific narratives of stories they are...
Svetlana Alexievich Statement, errata
Last remaining member of the Coordinating Council Presidium in Belarus Svetlana Alexievich released a statement on September 9, 2020. Here’s a quick xlation:...
Russia is Next
#lukafascism (Photos by Yauhen Yerchak/EPA) (to be continued) cf. Cancel Lukashenko Culture Thoughtcrime up 8% in Belarus Bizarre Belarus Bullshit A Very...
Cancel Lukashenko Culture
(@vovatsesler) The last time I checked, more than 10,000 Belarusians had been arrested for participating in demonstrations against dictator Alexander...
Thoughtcrime Up 8% in Belarus
Attempts to revive social cohesion between Russia and Belarus seem as far-fetched today as they did a couple of months ago. The abduction of Coordinating...
Bizarre Belarus Bullshit
Ukraine’s equivalent to Bernard-Henri Levy is Dmytro Gordon, who is widely known in Kyiv as the Golden Pyramid Guy. Both are blue-ticked Belarus experts...
Girls Just Like to Shoot
Badass Belarusian women terrorized underfed riot police serving self-proclaimed President Alexander Lukashenko on Saturday and marched to Independence Square...
A Very Uncomfortable Place
MSNBC’s Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel has disappeared from my Belarusian radar screen. Perhaps he and his team exfiltrated themselves to...
Dialogue with Lukashenko
The uneasy alliance is finally breaking down - so which is it gonna be, facts or logic?Alexander Lukashenko is currently the Belarusian president who,...
Ukraine's COVID-19 Disaster Update
It’s day whatever of Ukraine’s COVID-19 disaster and it’s obvious something has gone horribly wrong.The positive dynamics of morbidity in over the six months...
What Belarusians Need Least
I just noticed that some foreign Belarus experts and journalists don’t have a blue ticks, so, technically, you don’t need to respect them. The revolution has...
Maria's Very Bad Day
Something has gone horribly wrong for Maria Kalesnikava, who over the weekend gave a bullshit interview with Maxim Znak to Kommersant flak Andrej Kolesnikov....
Svetlana Reacts to YouTube Clip
Svitlana Tikhanovskaya has responded to the weird YouTube video posted by Floutist Maria Kalensnikava and would-be presidential candidate Viktor Babariko...
Mouthpiece Experimentation Failure
In terms of the number of people pissed off, albeit for the wrong reasons, this announcement may set a record. It’s all about floutist Maria Kаlesnikаva and...
Mad Men in Minsk
Vlad has been tweeting up a storm lately about events in Minsk. The Paris/Odesa-based blogger popped up on the radar screen this spring in Kyiv as a...
Ukraine Covid-19 Update
NSDC The results are in: Ukraine’s response to the COVID-19 has failed. Miserably. Looking on the bright side, it’s not as if anyone expected competency from...
Grand Parade of Women for Peace
Squads of women carrying flowers marching under banners, reading “mothers with many children,” “business women,” “housewives,” “honest teachers” etc, will...
Gutless Wonder
(president.gov.ua) The deliberate and systematic destruction of the culture of an ethnic group is called ethnocide, a term used to describe the deliberate...
Black Hats & Truncheons
Ok, folks, the fun is over. Let’s all just admit that 2+2 necessarily equals 4 and the correspondence theory of truth is probably correct. It was fun while...
Love Revolution Topples Lukashenko
The same martians who misreported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014 have been in Belarus this week divining the demise of Europe’s last dictator. Oliver...
Punctuated Equilibrium and Belarus
(Владимир Цеслер, Арт-Сядзіба) A power law is characterized by the fact that what happens at one scale is exactly the same as what happens at another scale....
Belarus is Part of the Russian Empire
It’s too bad most Americans don’t understand German and what former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton said in an interview with Austria’s Puls 24 TV...
Russian Scabs Rescue BT
As I recall, independent Belarusian television died a violent death during 1996. They were either turned into vomit bags for the self-proclaimed president or...
Ukraine Covid-19 update
It’s day whatever of Ukraine’s COVID-19 disaster and it’s obvious something has gone horribly wrong.The positive dynamics of morbidity in over the seven...
Belarus: Awkward for Everyone
(Angry woman in Kyiv demonstrating solidarity with Belarus, August 16, 2020) International reactions to events in Belarus have been as amazing as they are...
The Dead Don't Feel Pain
It’s very early in Kyiv and videos of tortured Belarusians are being uploaded to the Internet at an alarming rate. They are difficult to digest, but I am...
Dear Foreign Journalists!
With the possible exception of Alexander Lukashenko. Rinse, repeat.cc: experts
Ukraine Covid-19 Update
It’s day whatever of Ukraine’s COVID-19 disaster and it’s obvious something has gone horribly wrong. The positive dynamics of morbidity in over the six...
The End of Lukashenko
(Photo: Alexkander Miridonov, Kommersant)Наиболее близкая аналогия — Кущевка. Цапки насиловали и убивали десятилетиями под прикрытием местных силовиков. Об...
Calling Bullshit on Belarus
TV news producers in Ukraine are unconstrained by facts. The monologues of their presenters sound like press releases. This is because the owners of...
Moron President Seeks Peace
Ukraine’s moron President Volodymyr Zelensky has spoken out on Facebook about the bloody massacre of unarmed protesters in Belarus on August 9-10. “Our...
Underground isn't Over
We left off last week posting the video of Nicolae and Elena’s death in Romania by firing squad, warning that Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko faced...
Bye Bye Batka
It will take weeks, maybe a couple more months, before the 26-year reign of Alexander Lukashenko ends and angry Belarusians either arrest him or kick him out...
With Friends Like These Who Needs Enemies?
It didn’t take long for Russia’s bullshit factories in Kyiv to begin undermining truth and objectivity about Belarus and Alexander Lukashenko’s problems at...
Bad Reporting is a Deliberate Choice
Hundreds of freedom-loving Ukrainian TV and print journalists are making last-minute preparations for reporting on the Belarusian presidential election on...
Principle of Sufficient Reason
Rudolf Carnap appeals to the Principle of Sufficient Reason as a proper principle in the development of the theory of extension, which is a proper subject...