Ukraine has handed over to Russia as part of an exchange a 21-year-old student who had plans to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), investigative media outlet Verstka reported on Friday, citing his friends and Ukrainian military sources.

According to Verstka, Alexey Gerasimov was a former student of journalism at the Chuvash State University, who, friends said, openly supported Chuvashia’s secession from Russia. Chuvashia is a republic in Russia’s Volga region where local Chuvash, a Turkic ethnic group, form a two-thirds majority of the population.

“He would debate teachers, saying it was time for Chuvashia to secede from Russia. The teachers reported him and he was mobilised into the army,” Mishshi Oreshnikov, a Chuvash activist who fights for the AFU, told Verstka, though Verstka was unable to confirm this.

Fucking hell. Both Russia and China’s erasure of indigenous Turkic peoples is really bleak.

Rentierism

There isn’t much if you’re interested in like Party Politics and State Relations.

But there is actually quite a rich layered news that centers people instead of institutions. I’ll send you two ones that are explicitly anarchist. Obviously, I’m not saying one needs to only read them, but adding them into the media diet can be quite nice.

https://crimethinc.com/

https://itsgoingdown.org/

There are some decent in between sources as well. See maybe Propublica or Jacobin.

I think unbiased sources don’t exist. Everything is giving you a perspective. And having perspectives that aren’t elite coded or pro-status quo coded can be really valuable.

:)

Ooo this is cool.

I hope they add support for Nodebb and Qwant.

NPR and The AP are both run by the liberal elite. They covertly reinforce the status quo (even if just by story selection), and perhaps sometimes subtly endorse small reforms. So they end up working in part to maintain the current order (read heirarchies).

Fox News, Newsmax are straight up run by oligarchs as overt propaganda tools to reinforce heirachies.

There are no anti-heirarchical or anti-establishment sources in this graph of what people in the US read. (Unless you count News Max as anti-establishment, but it’s more anti-liberal elite establishment pro-oligarch establishment so I would still classify it as pro-establishment).

Pretty impressive how all of the networks listed are elite controlled corporate-neoliberal brained. Pretty grim assessment of how democrats consume the news as well.

Holy whit what a read. The political pressure and bureaucratic nightmare of this all is really jarring.

What. I thought they were supposed to be the jewel of american culture. I didn’t know they were basically extinct from the lower 48.

Perhaps the point is to fix it up a little before getting more folks to join?

Cheers :)

This sounds super cool. But gonna need a source on it.