Join us tomorrow, April 21 at 15:00 EEST Kyiv / 14:00 CET

Webinar "The Pitfalls of Campism: Global Perspectives" - Ruta This webinar brings together voices from Iran, Syria, Venezuela, and Ukraine to examine how campist frameworks within the global left have consistently

Here is a direct link to our registration page for the RUTA webinar The Pitfalls of Campism: Global Perspectives

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We invite you to our webinar “The Pitfalls of Campism: Global Perspectives”

April 21 · 15:00 EEST (Kyiv).

Voices from Iran, Syria, Venezuela & Ukraine unpack how global left “campism” misreads struggles, excuses authoritarianism, erases local agency.

Join us: tinyurl.com/3kh57f4h

Powerful webinar by the Indigenous-Ukrainian Relationship Initiative with talk by Niigaan Sinclair (Peguis First Nation) titled "Ukrainian people are my people too: An Indigenous perspective on relationality, war, and reconciliation."

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Just starting, and it will be a vital conversation. As I said before it’s always so insightful and meaningful to hear Rita Adel, who comes from a Palestinian-Ukrainian family. She spoke at our RUTA conference in Ukraine last year and it was one of the most powerful panels in a completely packed room

Excited to share forthcoming volume: Introducing Central Asia & the South Caucasus, edited by RUTA member Erica Marat.

Amplifying young scholars from the regions who present fresh, grounded, and often deeply personal perspectives.

Pre-order here today: tinyurl.com/2x5na7b3

Resharing our important RUTA conversation on International Romani Day. Have a listen to Magda Matache and Madeline Potter’s insights, and if you can, ask your libraries to order their books — The Roma: A Traveling History and The Permanence of Anti-Racism: Unuttered Sentences — for their collections

Czech national celebrations of International Romani Day are starting, Prague will have Romani flags on its trams, the Dancing House will be lit up in the colors of the Romani flag - Romea.cz - Everyth... Czech national celebrations of International Romani Day start Friday, 3 April, and over the next few days Prague will be full of Romani art, community, and culture. The celebrations will culminate on ...

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Prague is celebrating International Romani Day with art, music, literature, community events, and powerful public gestures across the city.

Kremlin Hotline: How Hungary Coordinates With Russia Blocking Ukraine From the EU - VSquare.org Péter Szijjártó offered Sergey Lavrov to send EU documents through the Hungarian Embassy in Moscow. Leaked audio reveals a strikingly deferential, submissive attitude from Szijjártó toward Lavrov.

💥 New leaked calls — transcripts and audio: Sergey Lavrov encourages Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó to blackmail the EU Council over Ukraine, then asks him to pass along EU documents. It’s hard to say which part is worse.

Donald Trump Jr. stigao u Banski Dvor na panel diskusiju s privrednicima iz RS-a Donald Trump Jr. stigao je u Banski Dvor u Banjoj Luci gdje će prisustvovati panel diskusiji, a prethodno je oko tog objekta napravljen perimetar od 200 metara...

Trump Jr & Brad Pascale have arrived in Bosnia to meet w/ Milorad Dodik’s Russian-backed secessionist regime. Dodik, a long time Serb militant & Bosnian Genocide denier, secured US sanctions relief in Oct after hiring Blagojevich & Mike Flynn as lobbyists. www.klix.ba/vijesti/bih/...

Live updates: Trump says ‘entire country’ of Iran could be taken out if no deal is reached by tomorrow | CNN US President Donald Trump called a 45-day ceasefire proposal a “significant step” but “not good enough.” Iran also rejected the proposal and called for a permanent end to the war, according to Iranian...

Could someone stop this genocidal madman pls? edition.cnn.com/2026/04/06/w...

We look forward to listening!

An important announcement. A registration link for non-presenting audience members and friends of RUTA will be coming soon

Programming our next conference of the RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, & Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central, & Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation. Once again I’m in awe of the incredibly re‑imaginative proposals we receive, because we welcome them. It gives one hope!

A new podcast, Balkanomnicon–an international affairs podcast with a focus on the Balkans-that will be of interest to our RUTA communities

An insightful thread about Georgian resistance against authoritarianism

A conversation not to miss. It is always so immensely insightful and meaningful to hear Rita Adel, who comes from a Palestinian-Ukrainian family. She spoke at our RUTA conference in Ukraine last year and it was one of the most powerful panels in a completely packed room

Why ‘The West’?: An Exchange | John Connelly, Maria Sonevytsky, Yuri Slezkine To the Editors: In his review of Georgios Varouxakis’s The West , Yuri Slezkine makes assertions that should unsettle anyone concerned about the fate of

A telling exchange. "Beyond easily demonstrable untruths about Ukraine, what’s unfortunate about Slezkine’s historical analysis is its failure to ponder cause and effect, even at a superficial level." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

A free online course that will be of interest to our RUTA communities

Wonderful news. This book is a crucial read that tells on what it takes to overthrow a dictatorship and honours the efforts of those who try, even when success isn’t linear or instant and can take generations. There might soon be a symposium published about the book and several revolutionary Springs

The recording of Olga Burlyuk’s public lecture will be of interest to many in our RUTA communities and beyond

RUTA member Olga Burlyuk gave a public lecture “What do we know about Russia’s war against Ukraine?” at Studium Generale Utrecht

Keen to hear this lecture. Livestream starts in 5 minutes.

Spiegel: Merkel-era Germany trained Russian troops just before Russia's 2014 Crimea invasion - Euromaidan Press German officers and Rheinmetall helped develop Russia’s war simulation centers months before Putin seized Crimea.

It warrants repeating that German officers and Rheinmetall helped develop Russia’s war simulation centers and provided training to Russian troops months before the 2014 Russian invasion of Crimea

euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/12/s...

"Housewives" and "Lego": Rheinmetall says it respects Ukraine after CEO's controversial remarks German defence concern Rheinmetall has said it has "the utmost respect" for Ukrainian weapons manufacturers after its CEO Armin Papperger compared Ukrainian drones to "Lego bricks" made by "housewives...

After 4+ years of full-scale war, the CEO of one of a major defense concern still hasn't grasped that Ukraine has more expertise, being forced to urgently develop it, than engineers manufacturing war tools without facing an immediate existential threat.

www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

Ministry of Defence of Latvia: russia carries out information operation against Baltics The Ministry of Defence reports that russia is currently carrying out a large-scale, coordinated information operation against Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, claiming that the Baltic States are allow...

"The Ministry of Defence reports that russia is currently carrying out a large-scale coordinated information operation against Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia claiming that the Baltic States are allowing their territories to be used for Ukrainian attacks against russia" www.mod.gov.lv/en/news/mini...

History is not an accident: the return of molotovs and ribbentrops? (March 7, 2025) YouTube video by The Ruta Association

Here’s the RUTA discussion on the return of molotovs-ribbentrops from the History is not an accident webinar series. Very worth listening to @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social, @terrelljstarr.bsky.social and @martkuldkepp.bsky.social, with @epp-annus.bsky.social moderating

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That’s what we’re dealing with. A year ago with @associationruta.bsky.social we held a debate on the return of molotovs-ribbentrops and sure enough, here we are but it would feel better not to be so vindicated. Meanwhile, the AfD is steadily re-nazifying Germany and it’s having much success with it

A reminder about today’s event with RUTA Board Member Martin-Oleksandr Kisly, founder of the Crimean Studies Center at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, & Nara Narimanova, who will challenge the colonial erasure of Crimean Tatars in written history from the perspective of the colonizer

Forthcoming work from one of our RUTA Association founders and current Board Member Tereza Hendl. She can be contacted for a preprint