A Swedish-Russian woman, Eugenia Karlsson, became the internet’s latest target for public shaming after she was captured unleashing a horrific tirade on a Ukrainian in Stockholm: I don’t believe...
This week, I did a panel at George Washington University, hosted by the Organization of Slavic Studies. My co-panelists were career Ukrainian diplomat Kateryna Smagliy and prominent Ukrainian...
Roman Hrybov, the Ukrainian border guard who famously told a Russian warship “go fuck yourself” on the first day of Russia’s shameful invasion of Ukraine is alive — and has received a medal....
The rapturious admiration of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky — who has more than risen to the occasion as Russia invaded his country — was always bound to inspire a backlash. The whole...
I have good news and bad news. The bad news is as follows: we are in a new and so far very shitty period of history. Russians are bombing Ukraine, my native homeland, and making threats about...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is exhausting Whenever I write this on social media, a cadre of paid troll accounts and a few useful idiots inevitably show up to tell me what a bad person I am. In...
Someone I’m close to recently told me to “harden the fuck up.” In the internet communities I’ve been part of over the years, this would basically constitute a war crime. After all, I have...
No matter what anybody tells you, cancel culture is real — though it disproportionally affects more vulnerable people, as opposed to wealthy celebrities. I’ve felt its effects on my work efforts...
On Monday, senator and former vice presidential hopeful Tim Kaine was one of the many people stuck on I-95 following a major snowstorm that blanketed Virginia, Maryland, and DC: The Twitter replies...
The writer Mikhail Bulgakov, a fellow native of Kyiv, called the year 1918 “great and terrible.” A little over a century later, 2021 was that kind of year for me — and for many of you too. From...