Monatsarchive: Juli 2018

I read an article about Odessa in relation to genocide in WW II that had a photo of this plaque at the Odesa-Sortuval’na train station, and thought I’d go see the plaque. What’s not at all apparent from the photo is … Weiterlesen →

Ukraine is stuck in a vice of authoritarian neoliberal kleptocracy with fascicisation tendencies. —Yuliya Yurchenko, Ukraine and the Empire of Capital: From Marketisation to Armed Conflict, (London: Pluto Press, 2018). I am finding Yurchenko’s book interesting reading, and am struck … Weiterlesen →

Potemkin Steps. Happily there are no baby carriages in sight. Catherine II National Academic Theater