Maksym Eristavi - The Russia Empire and it’s Destructive Behaviour has no Place in the 21st Century.

Russia is tearing itself away from modern civilization and its associated values, norms, and comforts. What demons have resurfaced from Russia’s past, and what is driving a form of sado-masochistic self-destruction and flagellation, that seems to be propelling Russia backwards in a painful civilisational decline. And where will this out-of-control Troika stop – possibly at an era that pre-dates Peter the Great’s efforts to punch a window onto Europe in the façade of Russia’s feudal-military despotism, established by the khans of the Mongol Horde. But what is the role of such a state in the modern world, and how to defend against it? ---------- Maksym Eristavi is the Russian colonialism storyteller-in-chief. An award-winning author of the book “Russian colonialism 101” and founder of Ukrainian Spaces. Maksym is a Ukrainian journalist and writer and champion of global awareness about the Russian colonial legacy. ---------- LINKS: ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: ---------- ABOUT: Maksym Eristavi is a Ukrainian journalist, writer, and author of “Russian Colonialism 101,” an illustrated guide to Russian colonial crimes. A self-described ’Russian colonialism storyteller in chief,’ he champions global awareness about the Russian colonial legacy. This mission is personal: a mixed Ukrainian with Asian, Roma, and Georgian roots, several generations of his family suffered from genocides, assimilation, and identity erasure throughout centuries of Russian colonial rule. Eristavi has a two-decade journalism career behind his back that included championing mainstream English-language coverage of Eastern Europe by indigenous voices. He went from covering both Ukrainian pro-democratic revolutions, being the country’s youngest news anchor and newsroom manager to founding international operations at the leading news startup covering Eastern Europe, and becoming a contributor to leading global outlets, such as RFERL, BBC, CNN, Al-Jazeera, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Politico and the Washington Post. At the same time, Bild and The New York Times called his social media reporting an essential source on the region. He led pioneering English-language coverage of the Russian disinformation warfare, Russian colonialism, and human rights violations in Eastern Europe. He is the founder of Volya Hub, the first storytelling hub expanding public awareness about Russian colonialism, and a co-founder of #UkrainianSpaces, a multimedia hub that amplifies Ukrainian perspectives and decolonizes global Ukraine conversations. Eristavi also pioneered queer representation in Eastern European media and remains one of the few openly queer journalists in the region. In 2021 I co-authored ‘Untapped Power,’ a book promoting the idea of inclusive foreign policy rooted within human rights equality and a decolonized view of Eastern European queerness. He was a 2015 Poynter fellow at Yale University with a focus on informational wars and pan regional LGBTI civil rights movements. Eristavi was also a 2016-2017 fellow at the Millennium Leadership Program and a former Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council. He was also a 2020-2022 Transatlantic Leadership fellow with a DC-based Center for European Policy Analysis. In October 2015 Eristavi was featured among the 10 most prominent LGBTI people in Ukraine during the first-ever queer project at the country’s biggest modern art center. His work and anti-colonial bridge-building made Eristavi a featured speaker at leading universities, many parliaments, and foreign ministries, including hearings at the US Congress and the European Parliament. ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine Come Back Alive Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: Instagram: Podcast: Linkedin: Patreon: ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.