Volodymyr Ishchenko Profile picture
Research affiliate at Osteuropa-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin. Revolutions, left&right, violence, civil society, nationalism, class in Ukraine and beyond.

May 26, 2021, 8 tweets

Further evidence that #Protasevich could be not just a journalist in Donbass and could be close not simply to #Azov but to Ukrainian neo-Nazis

A much clearer picture of #Protasevich at the Azov parade in Mariupol in 2015. The account is a bot but here's the original from Azov Vkontakte

His father says Protasevich was fighting ("voeval") in Donbass

Several Azov veterans claim that Protasevich did not fight. But one says that Protasevich could be on the picture for the "Black Sun" magazine cover.

strana.ua/news/335260-ro…

Protasevich's selfie in an explicitly neo-Nazi brand Sva Stone. It's extremely unlikely that one can wear these T-shirts without being "in".

And my longer commentary on what it all means and whether it changes anything about Protasevich (no) and Belarusian opposition protests (more than you would think).

A pathetic charlatan attempt to refute the face identification on the "Black Sun" magazine cover, even after much better pictures of Protasevich in Azov uniform and other strong evidence appeared today. Ridiculously futile waste of one's own time.
euromaidanpress.com/2021/05/26/pro…

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