Crows are cool. russia is not

Hi from Ukraine! Decided to make a separate blog for posts about russian agression and Ukraine. Still gonna put many on my Main Blog but there were so many I decided to split my artblog and this one

[folklorespring]

Dmytro Pavelko who performed as a drag queen Mystique Grimes. Was killed by russian missile on May 14.

[wordswithoutaworld]

“We are not at war with the Russian people, and art must remain open” said the Mayor of Venice regarding the Russian pavilion at the Biennale.

Luigi Brugnaro noted that he and Italy’s Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giuli, have “different views.”

“We must respect people and continue along the path of diplomacy and openness because that is how peace is built” he added.

We are literally at war with these Russian people — they have political, business, and personal connections to Putin.

At this point, it feels like even Putin will be framed as someone no one is at war with, simply because he’s part of the Russian people.

And how long are we supposed to “build peace” through culture and sports?

Until Russians kill every Ukrainian artist and athlete so that there’s no “political context” left next to them?

For generations, we have been losing our artists — murdered by Russians in different historical periods. And it’s happening again now.

How can this aspect of art be considered outside of politics? Or is it somehow not considered discrimination when it affects the Ukrainian people?

[wintersmitth]

Art is apolitical right?

[redjaybathood]

I've seen a version of this regarding English high school literature, but the options there were, like, milketoasty (i have no mouth and i must scream; the king in yellow; etc). So I wanted to check with my UA moots (and other people who might have read UA lit),

Which Ukrainian middle/high school lit story fucked you up the most?

I (Romance) / Я (романтика)

The Yellow Prince (Жовтий Князь)

The Horsemen (Вершники)

Anything by Marko Vovchok

Fedko the Rascal (Федько-халамидник)

Your option (comment or add to tags/in reblog)

Voting ended onMay 4

[folklorespring]

Workers' Day parade, May 1, 1986, Kyiv, 5 days after Chornobyl disaster. Soviet authorities insisted on mass events and concealed what actually happened at the Chornobyl NPP, creating an illusion that it was a minor accident that was taken care of. Thousands of people took part in the celebrations while the wind was carrying a radioactive cloud toward Kyiv.

[magda-222]

FOLLOW MY ALT BC THIS ACCOUNT MIGHT GET DELETED FROM A FALSE REPORT - @morris-2222

[ukrocorvid]

In case you got anything similar to this... It's a scam

Don't click any links probably

[without-ado]

Full Moon in April l Seong Mo Lee

[budyak]

In Ukrainian folklore kharakternyk is a Zaporozhian Cossack that is believed to have magic powers, it can vary from person to person, but the most interesting power I can remember from my childhood was the ability to turn into different animals to escape death. There’s something very romantic about being so elusive and hard to kill that people believe you’re a wizard… Nevertheless, this is Nestor Nebizhchyk (Nestor the Undead). You can guess why he’s called that.

[ghostlycrowncherryblossom]

Our future health minister got the moves 💃🕺

[ukrocorvid]

I'm so proud of Hungarians. I'm so proud of you guys. You should be proud of yourself.

You guys are a genuine ray of hope in this world where sometimes it feels like Russian propaganda and all their political influence and stupid russia-owned politicians can't be beaten and OH MY GOD IT CAN BE BEATEN! IT CAN BE BEATEN I WANNA GIVE YOU A HUGE UKRAINIAN HUG

[bavovniatko]

[greencheekconure27]

I don't understand what Ukrainians want when they complain about Russian athletes. Do they want athletes with Russian citizenship to be prevented from competing in international sporting events? Do they want athletes with Russian citizenship to be prevented from competing for Russia? Do they want athletes with Russian citizenship to be prevented from competing under neutral flag as well?

Short answer

1) yes.

2) no.

3) yes.

I'll also add a fourth: for Ukrainian athletes not be penalized for expressing their national identity -and yes, this includes things like commemorating Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia in this war, displaying the outline of their country as per internationally recognized borders on their equipment, and not wanting to shake hands with Russian athletes- while Russians are permitted all of the above and more.

As long as this war is going on, Russian athletes, artists, films etc should have no place on the international stage. Why? Because their taxes go to Russia. Their achievements are used in Russian propaganda. Yes even under a neutral flag. Their very presence at these events is a form of soft power. All of this while their country kills Ukrainian athletes, artists, academics, destroys Ukrainian heritage sites, robs Ukrainian musea, etcetc.

What good sportsmanship is there if the country you represent is eliminating your competition with missiles?

And don't come at me with "sport is apolitical". That is simply not true, and has never been true.If sports were apolitical the Olympics wouldn't exist, because their very conception was a political gesture.

[mariacallous]

I need him to die please

[smegorl]

Maybe this is too far but I think every Crimean Tatar on Earth should be flown to LA so they can all kick him in the nuts until his balls pop.

[rootless-cosmopolitan]

For the Westerners who don’t know: during soviet times, Crimean Tatars were subject to forced deportation and replaced with ethnic slavs to make the region more loyal to the USSR. Then in 2014, russia occupies Crimea, and over a million Crimeans, both Tatar and non, flee, causing the biggest internally displaced population in the world at the time. russia replaces them with loyal russians via a planned settlement program, to make the region more “loyally russian.”

USSR/russia commits textbook ethnic cleansing and these fucking genocidal blood and soil chuds are like, “no this is the Indigenous Land of the proud Russian Slav”

[wintersmitth]

Russia systematically cleanses Crimea of Tatars to this day. The amount of Tatar activists imprisoned on bogus grounds is astounding.

Also funny how Hassan Piker is just throwing his fellow muslims down the bus.

[thestuckylibrary]

Germany: Far-right lawmakers accused of spying for Russia – DW – 10/22/2025

Lawmakers from the AfD in Thuringia have been accused of trying to gain sensitive data for Russia with parliamentary inquiries. AfD called t

Russia is waging war on democracy. While Putin has power he is a danger to everyone.

[partisan-by-default]

Over the past 12 months, AFD parliamentarians in the eastern state of Thuringia had filed 47 questions on topics like critical infrastructure, state Interior Minister Georg Maier told the Handelsblatt newspaper.

"The impression is almost unavoidable that the AfD is working through a Kremlin order list with its inquiries," Maier said, adding that the questions had demanded "increasing intensity and depth of detail."

The politicians had asked for information on transport, water supply and digital and energy infrastructure, according to Maier, a member of the Social Democrats (SPD), the junior partner in Chancellor Friedrich Merz's government.

"The AfD shows a particular interest in police IT and capabilities, such as in the field of drone detection and defense," Maier told the paper.

Maier said AfD lawmakers had also filed similar inquiries elsewhere in Germany.

[thestuckylibrary]

seems like “Germany for the Germans” was actually about “Germany for the Russians”

[iamthetruenhaz]

That's the case for damn near every European nationalist party in the last 10-15 years. Plus, well, they've never been subtle about it. This now is just official confirmation.

[iamnmbr3]

Yep. Russia has clearly been very deliberately backing extremist parties to try to destabilize and conquer democracies through the use of proxy puppet governments. Look at Belarus and Hungary.

I think Russia is the source of a tremendous amount of evil and instability in the world. Doesn’t mean that all problems will go away overnight if the Russian regime falls, but I would bet that a lot of it would get better. That’s why the choice isn’t whether to fight Russia or not; it’s whether to fight Russia now when they are weakened or later when they’re in a better position. Defeating Russia isn’t just about saving Ukraine. It’s about saving democracy.

[thestuckylibrary]

#russians would also benefit from not having an autocrat

[wordswithoutaworld]

добрий день,what are your thoughts on westerners drawing their favourite characters in traditional Ukrainian clothing?

Слава Україні

Добридень! First of all, thank you for such a positive question. I, like many Ukrainians, am always happy to see a character from any fandom or an oc wearing Ukrainian clothing, having a Ukrainian hairstyle, or even just including any element of our culture. And of course, we’re always glad to support this kind of art.

I’ve seen that some foreigners worry that there might be certain cultural restrictions — like things non-Ukrainians aren’t allowed to wear — but that’s not really the case in Ukraine. For us, sharing elements of culture with others is generally part of hospitality, like exchanging items of traditional clothing, for example.

So thank you for supporting Ukraine — Героям Слава! And have a great day!

[uffgh-deactivated20260125]

The MESSENGER spacecraft is the first ever to orbit the planet Mercury, and the spacecraft's seven scientific instruments, like the MASCS instrument used to create this colorful illustration of Mercury’s surface, are unraveling the history and evolution of the innermost planet. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington.

[hummingbird-hunter]

"No guys this character is a russian soldier bc the story needs that!! It has nothing to do with modern ruzzia he's just a russian vampire the story just calls for it!!" is the same logic as "noo guys this character has her tits out all the time because her superpower is shooting milk out of her nipples!! It is not needless sexualization, her superpowers call for it!!!" but you put your fingers in your ears and start going lalalalala can't hear you every time the topic is brought up

[itsapmseymour]

They got new photos of the moon,

I knew she had colors hiding in there 🥹

[wizardimpersonator]

Correction to the link sourced by OP! The Artemis II team did not take these photographs. These were shot by a Ukrainian student named Ildar Ibatullin sometime in the last year or so. Furthermore, the Moon does not have these actual colors in reality; Ildar does a lot of post processing and compositing to saturate the colors in order to artistically represent the mineral composition of the lunar surface.

If you would like to see photos taken by the astronauts aboard Artemis II (and more!), here is the repository that NASA is keeping.

[bibo-adds]

if you want to check out more of the students photography and personal additions, look into the second link!

also heres what was said in the first article

words to live by