Roman Ivashkiv
@roman904
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Scholar, translator, teacher. Views my own. RT not necessarily endorsement.
Tuscaloosa, AL
Joined December 2009
Борітеся — поборете, Вам Бог помагає! За вас правда, за вас слава І воля святая! (��арас Шевченко, «Кавказ», 1845) Battle on – you will prevail, God helps you in your fight! Glory, truth, and holy freedom Do stand on your side! (Taras Shevchenko, “The Caucasus,” 1845)
🇺🇦poet Taras Shevchenko was born on this day in 1814. Worth remembering this very symbolic video shot 6 mo ago on a counteroffensive in Balakliya. Ukr soldier takes out 🇷🇺propaganda poster to see Shevchenko's poem: "Boritesya - poborete" ("Fight and you'll prevail") it says.
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My little love letter to Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi, whose INTERMEZZO is long overdue for a major English translation. (Hit me up, publishers!) The latest in @KyivIndependent + @UA_Institute's Hidden Canon project, give it a read. https://t.co/hyVfEzEYl3
kyivindependent.com
Editor's Note: This story is part of the "Hidden Canon" – a special series celebrating Ukrainian classic literature and aiming to bring it to a wider international audience. The series is supported...
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It was a great honour to be the inaugural Lesia Ukrainka Senior Visiting Fellow at @IWM_Vienna over the past three months. The fellowship enabled me to focus on my new project on Ukrainian children abducted by Russia. A picture of Lesia was on my desk, watching over me. 1/2
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I translated a letter from Lesia Ukrainka to Olha Kobylianska for my students, and since it's Lesia's birthday, here it is - with a short essay on why she matters right now. https://t.co/EOGDbfXBx9
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When we say that the aggressor must not receive any reward for the war, so that peace can truly last, everyone must understand – these are not just words. Unfortunately, the world already had the chance to verify this twelve years ago. Russia’s war against Ukraine began with the
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Today marks four years since the start of Russia’s unjustified, full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This morning, I spoke with members of the Coalition of the Willing to reinforce our support for a just and lasting peace.
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4+8 =12!!! years of ruzzia’s genocidal war… Світла блаженна памʼять усім, хто віддав життя! Пер��моги усім, хто бореться! Слава Україні! Eternal memory to all who gave their lives! Victory to those who are fighting! Glory to Ukraine!
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1. It’s not a “Ukraine war”, it’s a Russian war against Ukraine, Europe, and freedom 2. It’s not “4 years”, it’s 12 years, as Russia attacked Ukraine in 2014. In 2022 it increased the intensity of the war, but the war started much earlier 3. It’s not the war for territories,
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🇺🇦🇺🇸 Most Americans recognize that Ukraine is fighting for what, until very recently, used to be known as American values.
🇺🇸🇺🇦 Hundreds of people gathered in Washington on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion to support Ukraine. The action was held near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington to express solidarity with the Ukrainian people and honor the memory of the
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Ukrainian 🇺🇦 chess clubs bombed, chess players killed. Yet no FIDE official for 4 years have visited Ukraine, preferring Russia 🇷🇺 as their destination. It is shameful, it is wrong. One Grandmaster 🇱🇹 however consistently go to Ukraine🇺🇦 and support:
I am pleased to welcome the delegation of the Seimas of Lithuania to Kyiv, including Deputy Speaker @VCmilyte and Deputy Chair of the Seimas Committee @IngridaSimonyte. Lithuania has stood firmly with Ukraine since the beginning of russia’s full-scale invasion, consistently
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I really don't think @Olympics understand the visceral feeling anyone in Ukraine has when they see that blood soaked flag being waved. Every time it's shown anywhere it brings huge anger, disgust and discomfort. That flag means death, rape and burnt kids bodies, it's not ok.
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ПИШАЄМОСЬ! Український геній, який переписав історію шахів. Його звати Ігор Самуненков, і йому лише 16 років — але вже сьогодні про нього говорить уся Європа. Юнак став наймолодшим чемпіоном Європи з шахів, здобувши перемогу, яка увійде в історію українського спорту. Ігор
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@yuliya_yurchuk and I are organizing the Prairie Conference in Ukrainian Studies. Please consider applying and share widely. Date: April 30–May 3, 2026 Deadline: March 10, 2026 University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Details: https://t.co/6nF6zMiZtW
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When you want to get compromises from people who are under attacks and who are not aggressors – what do you give them? They don't trust anybody. They don't trust anybody because we had Budapest Memorandum. That was security guarantees. We gave up our nuclear and other weapons. A
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The IOC originally claimed they banned @heraskevych from the @Olympics under Rule 50 governing "political propaganda". When the claim his helmet was "political propaganda" failed under scrutiny, they changed the alleged breach to rule 40.2 - the helmet would distract from "focus
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@heraskevych Share this to the memory of all Ukrainian athletes killed by Russias war on Ukraine 🇺🇦
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🇺🇦💔 Four coffins. A father and his three children. Today, in the Kharkiv region, people bid farewell to Hryhorii Shykula and his three children — two-year-old Ivanko and Vladyk, and one-year-old Myroslava — who were killed as a result of a Russian strike on Bohodukhiv on
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Our editorial image for World Briefing. Headline: @Olympics Amnesia Problem - Banning a Ukrainian athlete for honoring the war dead - while approving “neutral” Russians with troubling links - exposed troubling fault lines https://t.co/dCt5s9SfG7
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Did Russia end its war against Ukraine? Or am I missing something?
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