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yev

@YevYevhenii

Aug 2 • 10 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X

Do you know where the allegations that Algerian boxer Iman Khelif was trans started?

Surprise, it was Russia. Let me explain in a short thread.

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Khelif, born female in Algeria, faces a false backlash for allegedly being transgender. Recently, successful female athletes are accused of being trans, prompting "sex tests" in many sports

Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting also faces these allegations at the Olympics, despite a decade in the sport. Why?

Last year, Khelif and Yu-Ting competed in the World Championships by the International Boxing Association (IBA), led by a Russian national and funded by Russian Gazprom.

IBA still allow Russian boxers to participate in the events under Russian flag.

Lin's medal was revoked for failing a "sex test," and Khelif faced similar accusations after beating a Russian opponent.

See not before, they were banned after winning.

The IBA, banned from the Olympics for corruption and bias, now claims the Olympic Committee allows "men pretending to be women" to participate in women's sports.

But they failed the test right? Russian led IBA doesn't disclose what their "sex test" is, making these accusations questionable.

Also the IBA's Russian head Umar Kremlev alleged Khelif and Lin have male chromosomes without any proof.

His allegations spread through Russian state media and later to international ones. But what for?

Russia is doing this to sow discord in Western societies and even between Western governments.

Btw, Russia is still waging a brutal war against Ukraine, consider donating to Ukraine here: u24.gov.ua

The IBA's actions seem aimed at undermining the credibility of Olympic standards, especially given Russia's exclusion from the Games due to doping scandals, I wrote for @United24media.

united24media.com/world/where-di…

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@YevYevhenii

Dec 13

1/6 During the Soviet Union’s collapse, Russia warned the West that independence for its colonies would lead to violent ethnic clashes.

Western leaders echoed this. Bush’s Chicken Kiev speech called against “suicidal nationalism based upon ethnic hatred” and Thatcher mocked the idea of an embassy in Kyiv.

But here’s what actually happened—out of 15 former Soviet republics, only TWO conflicts didn’t involve Russia directly:
• Armenia vs. Azerbaijan (Nagorno-Karabakh)
• Kyrgyzstan vs. Tajikistan (border clashes)

But both were caused by Soviet-imposed borders designed to divide.

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yev

@YevYevhenii

Aug 22

1/4 It seems people in the West are generally overoptimistic about Russia. By focusing so much on the few Russians who oppose the war, they tend to believe that Putin will somehow be removed from power and that a democratic transition is possible.

2/ This overoptimism might be part of the reason why Ukraine isn’t receiving all it needs to win. Russia, not only in its current form, understands force all too well, and Russians have an uncanny ability to process any defeat as a victory—this isn’t something Putin invented.

3/ The only way to end this war is to allow Ukraine to win decisively. Russia must understand that it can no longer launch these revanchist colonial land grabs.

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yev

@YevYevhenii

Apr 19

Today, Russia launched another missile attack on my city, Dnipro. As I woke up to the videos of where the missiles landed, I couldn’t stop thinking about one woman.

This thread is about her—a communist, a anti-colonial icon for me, and simply my grandma.

My morning began as it often does for many Ukrainians, with a barrage of messages from friends, colleagues, and family from abroad, as well as from other cities in Ukraine, asking if I was okay. I was okay, just extremely underslept, so I replied to everyone exactly that.

With @maksymeristavi, we chatted about the part of the city where the missile hit an apartment building—the area near the main train station. I told him how I had spent much of my childhood there; my grandma Zhanna lived not far away.

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yev

@YevYevhenii

Apr 17

I've read the TIME interview with Navalnaya so you don't have to.

There are many things that are simply incorrect, but there's one point where she is particularly mistaken, and I'll explain why.

She believes that there is a 'mistake of the Ukrainian government.'

She talks about how Ukrainians and Russians are like one family, and many of us have mixed families, which is true. However, what is not true is her assertion that Russians wouldn't support the war because of these connections.

When she suggests that it's not Russia's war but Putin's war, the interviewer corrects her by mentioning his conversation with President Zelensky:

"I’ve spoken about this with President Zelensky and his team, and they don’t believe this.

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yev

@YevYevhenii

Mar 25

Literature is a crash course into a nation's society

Ukraine's literature often spotlights wronged women seeking justice, and challenges societal blame

Russia's literature often seeks to excuse the acts of flawed men, framing them as victims of circumstance

explains a lot, no?

also the three main Ukrainian authors are literally a born serf anti-imperialist, a feminist and a socialist. meanwhile what we were taught as humanist Russian literature includes chauvinists, colonial landowners and imperialists.

We were so gaslighted by the Russian gaze and Western gaze looking at us through Russian. We have grown up thinking that our language, literature and culture are inferior.

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yev

@YevYevhenii

Mar 18

The Russian Woman’s Burden.

For centuries, a prevailing narrative within Russian society has been a sense of perpetual victimhood. This belief system has historical roots stemming from the country's rapid territorial expansion between the 17th and 19th centuries.

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This growth, averaging 142 km per day, often came at a steep human cost. Russia's military ambitions required a disproportionate ratio of subjects to soldiers (100:3) compared to Western European empires (100:1).

This historical 'burden' fosters a contemporary mentality where many Russians feel chronically victimized. They perceive external threats from entities like NATO or historical rivals such as Germany or Poland, justifying a permanent state of military preparedness.

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