“To provide sanctuary for civilians from both air and ground attacks and to help prevent a tide of refugees fleeing to Europe.” #KyivDeclaration
Demand 2 Provide Immediate Defensive Military Aid Including Lethal And Non-Lethal Assistance
“We urgently need air defence systems and anti-tank weaponry to defend our homes and cities from Russia’s use of advanced military technology, including cruise missiles” #KyivDeclaration
Dr. Yuliya Bidenko @YuliaBidenko
Associate Professor of Karazin Kharkiv National University Political Science
Google Scholar profile: scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user…
Analytical Reports
(De)Structuring of Civil Society brill.com/view/book/edco…
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WE ASK: What is the relationship between media consumption & believing disinformation abt protests? Employing #panelsurvey in #Ukraine we examine media consumption among protest participants & non-participants + supporters & non-supporters journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…@AKaratnycky
Absolutely. I study moments of mass mobilization. previous protests in Belarus were very different. This is indeed a critical juncture for protest mobilization in the country. 1) the protests are physicallly bigger (hard to see because they r dispersed geographically) but bigger
2) yes the state has acted far more quickly and violently ... but this actually mobilizing ... that’s the thing with repression it doesn’t allways work the way you want it to #dictators ... mothers, elderly, friends, crying outside of prisons is heart rentching and mobilizing!
3) we see the element I allways look for in large protests - to see if they will go from large protests to mass mobilization- what I call a “cross cleavage coalition” aka awakening of a larger “protestorate”. (See my book on ukraine and argentina and my article in @JoDemocracy)