Tag: russian invasion

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Global Shifts, Family Rifts: Why Russia Really F*cking Sucks

So, my post was straight to the point, wasn't it? My husband, Maks, is Ukrainian. He migrated to the U.S. back in 1997 and became a citizen a year before we met in 2008. We've been together since 2008, married since 2010, and have had two children, three cats, but no, no partridge in a pear tree. We've undergone a lot of challenges in our relationship - the constant
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The War on Ukraine through a Black Journalist’s Eyes

If you're not familiar with Terrell Starr, you should be. He's an American scholar/independent journalist who lives in Ukraine and has covered both invasions from Russia on Ukraine. I should add, he's a Black American journalist. The worldwide media, I feel, intentionally covered the Russian invasion of Ukraine as evil white people killing poor white people. Ukraine, however, is a lot more diverse than that. There are Latino Ukrainians,