(re)searching agency & dialectic forms. Ukraine, post-Sov, Europe, state/society/capital complex, human-nature dialectic. Political Economist @GPERC_UOG @CPERN

Joined March 2014
In this lecture & at @FESonline event ahead of #URC2024 I raised vital issues: UA needs a new social contract, human & nature centered recovery, exercise of Constitutional rights & guarantees inc ownership of land & natural resources by the UA people, not foreigner entities.
Building on historicized political economy of wartime Ukraine since 2014, @YPYurchenko's lecture illustrated that the state as an institution must be redefined. Watch one of this week's most popular IWM YouTube videos here: youtube.com/live/Zdf6AViJSNk…
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Dr Yuliya Yurchenko 🇺🇦 retweeted
A colleague started petition to demand investigation of recent assault on Vlad Starodubtsev @VlStarodubtsev Consider signing and sharing! c.org/Y8Pvctdjdc via @Change
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Dr Yuliya Yurchenko 🇺🇦 retweeted
Remember, the US is now formally trying to bully the Ukrainians to hand over millions of their people to the state that is doing this to them. The US is now a focus of evil in the world.
A horrific Russian strike in the Kharkiv region. A “shahed” struck people directly – in a park near an ordinary café. Pure atrocity. Six people were killed, including children. A little girl was killed in a stroller – her name was Angelina, she was just over a year old, born in August 2025… Her mother’s name was Inna. She died in the hospital… Another girl who was killed was 11 years old. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Another 14 people were injured, including six more children. I am grateful to everyone who supports Ukraine under these circumstances and helps us shoot down “shaheds,” shoot down missiles, and stop Russian assaults. These are horrific photos, but behind them are shattered lives and the truth about this war. Lives must be protected. Ukraine needs air defense. You can't think about making money with Russia as long as it continues its asinine war. We ask that sanctions on Russia stay in place as long as the killings continue. We ask America to be strong, and we ask it to apply the Lindsey Graham law. We ask Europe to continue its support. We ask that everything possible be done to bring peace and guarantee security. Ukraine wants peace. It is Russia that has insisted on continuing the killing all this time. The world has enough strength to stop the war. That strength must finally be used – against the murderers.
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And a fine protest it was! Pround to be a part of @UkraineSol campaign!
Outside the US embassy in London after our protest on Friday #StandWithUkraine️
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Edinburgh, Tuesday 20 October #StandWithUkraine
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It’s jarring to see a supposed leftist pining for a world that isn’t populated by people. States aren’t unitary actors. Publics demand a say in international relations. What Branko is calling “responsibility” is, in fact, repression.
People misinterpret whatever they want. My point was and is that small countries (including Serbia in 1914, Israel for 30 years, and the Baltic states now) are often irresponsible --because they look at their own narrow goals only-- and are quite happy to draw into the rest of the world into a larger coflict If you cannot understand that simple thing, pl. say nothing: because the issue is not *independence* of small countries but their *irresponsible* international behavior. Read again: On European hypocrisy and warmongering branko2f7.substack.com/p/on-…
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"Since July 16, 2026, there hasn't been a single day without attacks on the energy sector in Ukraine. Not one! As of October 17, 2026, there have been 2,147 attacks on energy infrastructure alone!" 🇺🇦Ukrainian Prime Minister Koretskyi in a conversation with BBC News Ukraine.
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Beyond drinking water shortages, Russian strikes on Kyiv's energy grid threaten a major public health crisis. Water industry experts warn that prolonged power outages could cause the capital's wastewater system to fail, posing serious health and environmental hazards. kyivindependent.com/kyiv-fac…
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These are not transfers from the US, but from other countries. The US is now actively sabotaging Ukrainian defense of civilians.
Breaking news: The Trump administration has not approved the transfer of interceptor missiles to Ukraine that are needed to protect the country from Russian attacks, officials said, a delay that comes as President Trump has embraced Russia in recent weeks. wapo.st/4yCb7T7
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Dr Yuliya Yurchenko 🇺🇦 retweeted
Seems like a country that's definitely amenable to negotiated peace that constructively addresses the legitimate security concerns of all parties.
Donald Trump says the Russian sanctions waiver is to help negotiate peace. But one Russian paper today writes: “We will make a deal with Ukraine entirely on our terms.” Another paper: “Russia’s borders, as we know, do not end anywhere.” #ReadingRussia
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We're at £5,967 out of £25,000. Help us get past £6,000 this morning! crowdfunder.co.uk/p/ukraine-…
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Following tweets over weekend: we're now just short of 12,000 followers. On Saturday at 6pm it was 8,000!
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Dr Yuliya Yurchenko 🇺🇦 retweeted
This has been Putin's dream for years: That his country, with GDP per capita lower than Poland, unable to conquer Donbas since 2014, will be treated as an equal to the US and China. wsj.com/world/russia/putin-f…
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Four Ukrainians sentenced to 25 years or life for partisan resistance after Russian ‘torture so bad you’d confess to anything’. Ihor Haranin, Serhiy Harkusha, Serhiy Yevtushenko and medic Olena Roi were all subjected to torture and dismissed the preposterous accusation of 'terrorism'. khpg.org/en/1608816139
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Dr Yuliya Yurchenko 🇺🇦 retweeted
When Trump says the Ukraine does not want to end the war, what he is really saying is that Ukraine does not want to surrender to a deal that he has worked out with Putin which would see the Ukrainians hand over more of their land and people. Speaking the truth is important.
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Dr Yuliya Yurchenko 🇺🇦 retweeted
It is unacceptable that a public lecture on the history of the left in Lviv cannot even be announced without a gang of extremists wearing Nazi insignia on their chests attacking the lecturer @VlStarodubtsev! Vladyslav is a veteran of Ukraine’s war of defence, helps fellow veterans, and is passionate about the history of both the Ukrainian and Polish left. He is my friend. The Ukrainian state must respond. It must protect its citizens and democracy. Intimidation must not be tolerated.
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Delivering aid to UA's 10th Rescue Squad (Donetsk oblast) last year. Now fundraising a vehicle for them as part of our emergency Winter aid appeal: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/ukraine-… They've been repeatedly bombed, with facilities + vehicles destroyed, and members killed. Help us help them
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Tomorrow in Edinburgh, organised by @USCScotland and allies
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Dr Yuliya Yurchenko 🇺🇦 retweeted
If my first reaction to seeing a guy get beaten up by neo-Nazis was to accuse him of being a Holocaust denier while my mentions were full of people saying “I stand in solidarity with the Nazis who committed the assault,” I might reevaluate some things.
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