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Nationality: journalist. Freelancer, made in the BBC. Reporting what you need to know, not what you want to hear. Also, Lonely Planet guides.

Jul 31, 2021, 7 tweets

Not sure which sick mind is allowing Oleh Kustovsky’a cartoons on the US-funded RFERL website, but this level of dehumanizing xenophobia is simply mesmerising (and worth a thread). Here, Russian-speaking cockroaches are running away as Ukraine reads a book in Ukrainian language.

Here, a Russian-speaking untermensch insists on watching Svaty (a Ukrainian comedy series produced by country’s current Russian-speaking president) in Russian, while a healthy family watches all films with Ukrainian subtitles.

Here, the highspeed train of Poroshenko’s language law, aimed at squeezing Russian language out of public sphere, is taking over the ramshackle Russian steamer driven by Putin. Of course forced assimilation of minorities is the fastest and most direct route to the EU.

Of course Ukraine is the real Russia and the disgusting place people call Russia should be in fact called Muscovy because it doesn’t deserve the name.

President Zelensky is a tiny prick unworthy of Ukraine’s greatness. Because Russian-speaker supposedly.

Yanukovych and Lukashenko are Russian ladies who sleep with Putin and some skulls.

Glamorous Ukrainian-speakers will never give a lift to a shabby Russian-speaking hitchhiker.

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