CREEES' Statement of Solidarity with Ukraine

Faculty Recommendations • News Outlets • How to Help • Student/Scholar Resources • Background • UT Libraries Guide on Russian Invasion of Ukraine (includes archives) • Media

Reliable News Outlets

News on Russia, in English:

• Meduza: https://meduza.io/en 
• Novaya Gazeta: https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2022/02/22/russia-explained… 
• The Moscow Times: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/

News on Ukraine, in English:

• H-Ukraine: https://twitter.com/H__Ukraine  
• New Voice of Ukraine: http://english.nv.ua 
• Kyiv Independent: https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent 
• Business Ukraine: https://twitter.com/Biz_Ukraine_Mag 
• Ukraine World: https://twitter.com/ukraine_world 

Global News, in English:

• Der Spiegel (requires free registration): https://spiegel.de/international/world/… 
• Deutsche Welle: https://twitter.com/dwnews 
• BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: https://rferl.org 
• Financial Times: https://ft.com/war-in-ukraine
• Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/
• Skynews: https://news.sky.com/

Other Reliable News Sources:

• Telegram Feed from a Ukrainian journalist in Kharkiv: https://t.me/Tsaplienko
• Telegram Feed from Mykolaiv head of military command: https://t.me/mykolaivskaODA
• Updates from the biggest local online newspaper in Odesa: https://dumskaya.net 
• On the ground reporting: Terrell Jermaine Starr Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/terrelljstarr

Background

• University of Texas at Austin Libraries Guide–The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: This page collects resources relevant to the invasion, including media sources, electronic resources, relevant databases from our collection, and other LibGuides created by fellow librarians. The guide will be updated as new resources become available.
• An in-depth interview on the historical and political-economic context of the Ukraine crisis with Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko: 
  https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/ukraine-w-volodymyr-ishchenko/?fbclid=IwAR1Wz9t_elGhjKFm2YnjDmyakNzAfAu-BjE7_AY-75s5aT7i8CipYOqUlAo
• Russia, Ukraine and the West: A CPCS Virtual Issue: 
  https://www.ucpress.edu/blog/58357/russia-ukraine-and-the-west-a-cpcs-virtual-issue/
• 6 Books to Read for Context on Ukraine: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/02/25/books/ukraine-books.html

How to Help

Financial Support:

• National Bank of Ukraine -- assistance to Ukraine's Armed Forces: https://lnkd.in/dNtpafFf
• Razom for Ukraine-- a leading civil society organization engaged in extensive humanitarian, logistics and civic efforts: https://lnkd.in/ebfCU54i
• Come Back Alive--helps Ukraine's Armed Forces via technical assistance, supplying armor and medical equipment. https://savelife.in.ua; donate: https://lnkd.in/dSAZf97n
  
• Tactical medical training and emergency response by Razom for Ukraine: https://lnkd.in/eC7eFf-H
  
• The Hospitaliers -- a volunteer field medics battalion: https://lnkd.in/evR63uNk
• United Help Ukraine: https://unitedhelpukraine.org/
• UN Refugee Agency for Ukrainians fleeing the war: https://donate.unhcr.org/int/en/ukraine-emergency#_ga=2.153843710.779357359.1646082451-1505037215.1645721495
• At least 6000 Russians have been jailed/detained for protesting Putler's invasion of Ukraine. The most important organization supporting them and future protesters is OVD-Info, which provides crucial legal aid in getting people out of detention, monitoring and publicizing their treatment, and keeping them from making wrongful confessions. You can donate here: https://donate.ovdinfo.org/
• Joint Distribution Committee: https://www.jdc.org/disasters/ukraine-response/
• Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society: HIAS.org
• Ascend Mission Fund: https://www.ascendmission.fund/ukraine
• Seeds for Ukraine (help people of Ukraine affected by the war to grow more food in their private gardens): https://seeds.kse.ua/

Other ways to help in a crisis:

• Attend a rally (see sidebar).
• Repost helpful (accurate) information on social media.
• We anticipate an urgent need to support threatened and displaced scholars in the coming weeks. Help these individuals through IIE’s Scholar Rescue Fund.
• With every crisis that emerges, artists are directly and severely affected. The impact will have dire ramifications for artists in the days, weeks, and months ahead. Give to IIE’s Artist Protection Fund to secure the safety of artists in peril.
• We expect an influx of displaced and refugee students in need of support to continue their educations. Aid students throughout the application, admission, and academic degree programs so they can persevere despite all odds.

•• Thank you to Brigitte Le Normand, Andrea Orzoff, and Nataliya Bugayova for help in compiling these resources. ••

Student/Scholar Resources

Faculty/Staff Recommendations

Mary Neuburger (Professor of History, Director of CREEES)

Craig Campbell (Associate Professor, Anthropology)

Maria Sidorkina (Assistant Professor, Slavic & Eurasian Studies)

Chelsi West Ohueri (Assistant Professor, Slavic & Eurasian Studies)

Agnes Sekowski (Assistant Director of CREEES)

Mary Neuburger

https://samf.substack.com/p/space-and-time?r=15i4j0&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&fbclid=IwAR19GVJRjgCHGUN4fHpFj52WMPQN6CWml6g4JAiOeARjEf0I32VcVJqewzs

Craig Campbell 

Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute. They note: “Russia’s war in Ukraine began in 2014 and has continued for the past eight years. On February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine, initiating a full-scale war and elevating the crisis to a new level. What is motivating Putin’s moves now, and what background do we need to understand why? The resources on this page help explain.”

Bilous, Taras. 2022. “A letter to the Western Left from Kyiv”, Commons, February 25, https://commons.com.ua/en/letter-western-left-kyiv/

Hall, Derek. 2022. “Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: A Response to David Harvey” February 28, 2022.  [The famous marxist geographer David Harvey recently wrote a post about Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The flaws in his argument are eloquently discussed in this post by Derek Hall.  ~Craig Campbell]

Hirsch, Francine. 2022. “Putin’s Memory Laws Set the Stage for His War in Ukraine.” Lawfare. February 28, 2022. [I’m a big fan of Hirsch’s historical work, in particular Empire of Nations].

Sorokin, Vladimir. 2022. “Vladimir Putin Sits atop a Crumbling Pyramid of Power.” The Guardian, February 27, 2022, sec. Opinion. 

Devlin, Kayleen, and Olga Robinson. 2022. “Ukraine Crisis: Is Russia Waging an Information War?” BBC News, February 23, 2022, sec. Reality Check. 

Dunn, Elizabeth Cullen, and Michael S. Bobick. 2014. “The Empire Strikes Back: War without War and Occupation without Occupation in the Russian Sphere of Influence.” American Ethnologist 41 (3): 405–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12086.

Gessen, Keith. 2022. “Was It Inevitable? A Short History of Russia’s War on Ukraine.” The Guardian, March 11, 2022, sec. World news. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/11/was-it-inevitable-a-short-history-of-russias-war-on-ukraine.

Barbaro, Michael, Mooj Zadie, Rachel Quester, Rachelle Bonja, Rikki Novetsky, Paige Cowett, John Ketchum, Dan Powell, and Chris Wood. 2022. “The Story Behind a Defining War Photo.” The New York Times, March 15, 2022, sec. Podcasts. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/15/podcasts/the-daily/ukraine-russia-war-family-killed.html.

Tavernise, Sabrina, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Diana Nguyen, Kaitlin Roberts, Rob Szypko, Michael Simon Johnson, Marc Georges, Lisa Chow, Marion Lozano, and Chris Wood. 2022. “How Russians See the War in Ukraine.” The New York Times, March 14, 2022, sec. Podcasts. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/14/podcasts/the-daily/ukraine-russia-family-misinformation.html.

On the Media. n.d. “The Death of Historical Memory in Russia.” Accessed March 16, 2022a. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/death-historical-memory-russia.

———. n.d. “The Escape.” Accessed March 16, 2022b. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-the-escape.

Maria Sidorkina

Ukraine w/ Volodymyr Ishchenko

An in-depth interview on the historical and political-economic context of the Ukraine crisis with Ukrainian sociologist Volodymyr Ishchenko.

https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/ukraine-w-volodymyr-ishchenko/?fbclid=IwAR1Wz9t_elGhjKFm2YnjDmyakNzAfAu-BjE7_AY-75s5aT7i8CipYOqUlAo

Read Volodymyr’s other work:

truthout.org/articles/ukrainians-are-far-from-unified-on-nato-let-them-decide-for-themselves/

www.ponarseurasia.org/how-maidan-revolutions-reproduce-and-intensify-the-post-soviet-crisis-of-political-representation/ 

www.lefteast.org/ukraine-in-the-vicious-circle-of-the-post-soviet-crisis-of-hegemony/ 

www.lefteast.org/contradictions-post-soviet-ukraine-failure-ukraine-new-left/ 

Tony Wood on Russia: thedigradio.com/podcast/russia-beyond-putin-with-tony-wood/

Chelsi West Ohueri

Terrell Jermaine Starr is a journalist and scholar who specializes in the subject of race in Russia, Ukraine, and Georgia. He is currently based in Ukraine right now and last week was featured on the NPR show 1A. This episode is a bit dated at this point but many may find the roundtable conversation helpful plus Starr’s analyses (including those from his social media accounts) provide nuanced discussions about race. Follow him on Twitter: @terrelljstarr

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/22/1082389064/putin-makes-his-move-in-ukraine

Agnes Sekowski

Masha Gessen: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-crushing-loss-of-hope-in-ukraine

Media

UT CREEES YouTube Channel

The following are from CREEES-affiliated faculty and students:

PODCASTS

Slavic Connexion Podcast (hosted by CREEES Graduate Students)
Putin's War in Ukraine: The History of the Conflict with David Marples
Putin's War in Ukraine: "Truth will be told" with Alex Kokcharov

This is Democracy Podcast
This is Democracy – Episode 185: Ukraine Invasion by Russia with Jeremi Suri

Essential Geopolitics with CREEES MA Alumnus Matthew Orr

PRINT MEDIA

DSES/CREEES Assistant Professor of Instruction Oksana Lutsyshyna
"I'm Lucky My Parents Were Peasants"

Global Disinformation Lab Director and CREEES Assistant Professor Kiril Avramov: 
"How the Letter 'Z' Fits Into the History of Russian Propaganda Efforts"

Professor Jeremi Suri, LBJ School of Public Affairs:
“Ukraine and the Economy will Dominate Biden’s State of the Union Address, Voice of America (28 February 2022).

“What to Expect from Biden’s State of the Union Address,” Courthouse News Service (28 February 2022)

CREEES MA Alumnus Matt Orr:
"Biden's Comments on Ukraine Won't Change Russia’s Calculus"

CREEES MA Alumnus Audrius Rickus:
"Baseless claims of ‘denazification’ have underscored Russian aggression since World War II"

History PhD student Rebecca Johnston:
"The Only Russian Official Angrier Than Putin at How Things Are Going in Ukraine"

TV APPEARANCES

CREEES Professor Steven Seegel:
"What's at Stake for America as Tensions Soar in Ukraine/Russia Conflict"

Professor Robert Moser and Associate Professor Patrick McDonald (Government):
"UT Austin Experts Break Down Russia/Ukraine Situation"

CREEES MA student Misha Symanovskyy:
"US Imposes New Sanctions on Russia Over Ukraine Conflict"

CREEES MA Alumnus Matt Orr:
"Things will continue to get worse: Analyst on Russia's Invasion of Ukraine"

RADIO

Professor Jeremi Suri, LBJ School of Public Affairs:

25 February 2022, Central Time, Wisconsin Public Radio, How Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Harms World Order

23 February 2022, Texas Standard, Public Radio on the Russian invasion of Ukraine

25 January 2022, Texas Standard, Public Radio on preventing a Russian invasion of Ukraine