Section: Global Voices (The Netherlands)
Ukraine Asks Facebook’s Zuckerberg to Discipline Kremlin Bots
Ukrainians are appealing to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to stop Russian trolls. Images mixed by Tetyana Lokot. Ukrainian Facebook users have complained to Mark Zuckerberg himself that their accounts are being blocked on the site in droves—and they’re blaming the Kremlin’s bot army. A group of Ukrainians has had enough of what...
Ukraine Blows Up Twitter with News of Russian Invasion
Reports of Russian military moving across the border into Ukraine caused a Twitter avalanche. Image from Twitter. On Wednesday Russia expanded its push across the Ukrainian border, apparently sending troops and armor into the town of Novoazovsk in Donetsk region, in what the media described as a stealth invasion. Ukrainian social media users...
With Body Bags Returning from Ukraine, ‘the War’ Comes Home to Russians
Ukraine sends 145 vests and helmets to ATO fighters in East Ukraine, 10 June 2014, by Oleg Pereverzev. Demotix. The evidence is mounting that an unannounced Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine is underway. After Moscow landed troops in Crimea earlier this year and later annexed the peninsula, an unhappy waiting game has played out around Donetsk...
From Cats to Military Parades: Photoblogger in Sevastopol Reflects Crimea’s Patriotic Euphoria
Natalya Golovan’s LiveJournal avatar. This article is part of an extensive RuNet Echo study of Russian-language blogosphere in Eastern Ukraine. Explore the complete interview series on the Eastern Ukraine Unfiltered page. One Ukrainian-born revolutionary is often quoted as coining the aphorism, “you may not be interested in war, but war is...
Crowdsourcing the Investigation of Eastern Ukraine’s Russian Ghosts
The online search for traces of Russian invaders and fascist nationalists continues in Eastern Ukraine. Images mixed by Kevin Rothrock. An abandoned wallet is again at the center of a scandal in eastern Ukraine, where the army claims to have seized two Russian armored personnel carriers (APCs) near Luhansk. The Ukrainian government says it found...
Famous Ukrainian Roofer Admits to Painting the Moscow Star in Ukraine’s Colors
Ukrainian Mustang Wanted, who has become an Internet celebrity for his high-altitude stunts around the world, admitted to painting the star in Moscow. Image from Mustang Wanted on Facebook. The story of Russia’s colour revolution in the form of a star atop one of the Seven Sisters buildings in Moscow has taken a new turn: a famous Ukrainian...
Russia Finally Gets Its Color Revolution
Russia and Ukraine: caught in a war of symbols. Images mixed by Kevin Rothrock. Russians and Ukrainians these days are trading a lot more than bullets and bombs in the conflict over Donetsk and Luhansk, where separatists believed to have Moscow’s support have waged a war against the young government in Kyiv. Last week, someone in Munich...
Russia’s Mockery of Jen Psaki Has Failed
U.S. State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki would seem to have inspired Russian trolls into a gaffe of their own. Images mixed by Kevin Rothrock. Browse the Russian Internet and it won’t take you long to find photoshopped images lampooning Jen Psaki, the spokesperson for the U.S. State Department. Most Americans have never heard of Psaki,...
Donetsk’s Guerrilla Separatists Kidnap the Guerrilla Artist Who Dared to Mock Them
This is Sergey Zakharov’s latest artwork critical of DNR and its former commander Strelkov. Image from Facebook. A Ukrainian guerrilla artist who has been stealthily putting up artworks mocking the separatists of the Donetsk People’s Republic all around the occupied city of Donetsk has run out of luck—just over a week ago he was...
Twitter Popularity Brings no Joy to Self-Dubbed “Shitty Slovyansk” Blogger
@ExileUA’s Twitter avatar shows Slovyansk’s acting mayor and city council head Alexandr Samsonov, who has been accused of siding with the rebels. This article is part of an extensive RuNet Echo study of Russian-language blogosphere in Eastern Ukraine. Explore the complete interview series on the Eastern Ukraine Unfiltered page. The...
