In addition to serving as advertisements for the Soviet system and government, Soviet films deliberately promoted all things Russian, while Ukrainian culture and language were portrayed as "old-fashioned", "rural", "purely folkloric" or downright "grotesque". Soviet art was an excellent tool of Russian imperialism and cultural expansion.Читати українською

Inside the Kill Zone: How Modern Frontlines Really Look in Ukraine

The founder of the fantasy genre, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, explaining the nature of orcs, wrote that they were the embodiment of evil, slaves held together by fear and the cruelty of their masters. They lived in envy and anger toward everything that others could create. Thanks to mobile video cameras, we can now observe how fear and cruelty keep a real, not fictional, army together. Texty.org.ua investigated repressive disciplinary practices and abuse in the Russian armed forces. This is an ancient tradition that may date back to the Golden Horde.Читати українською

Kyiv is funding Hungarian opposition journalists to criticize Orban. Ukrainian Intelligence has taken control of the opposition party Tisza and is now, together with Brussels, trying to replace the Hungarian government with a puppet government that will obediently work in the interests of Brussels and Zelensky. Hungarian pro-government media published these and many other absurd reports during the consultative referendum on Ukraine's EU membership.Читати українською

Russia has significantly intensified its campaign of sabotage, subversion, and other hybrid attacks against European countries. These actions aim to destabilize European governments, undermine public support for Ukraine, and weaken NATO's and the European Union's collective ability to respond to Russian aggression. These findings are presented in a new report by the British think tank IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies), titled "The Scale of Russian Sabotage Operations Against Europe's Critical Infrastructure."Читати українською

Together with OpenBabylon, Texty.org.ua formulated 2803 questions about Ukraine in English, asked them to 27 language models, and evaluated their answers. This way, we found out which of them are the most biased. We analyzed models from different countries, from the US to China, which are publicly available, i.e., those that can be downloaded to your computer for free and studied.

"Daddy died from the mobilization," "Mother died saving her son from going to the war", "Mobilization, launched by Zelensky, has gone completely mad. We already live like we're in a detachment for the army,"... Such messages are spread on TikTok by a bot farm with almost 630 accounts. Its bots broadcast Russian narratives, incite Ukrainian citizens, and professionally discredit mobilization in Ukraine.Читати українською

On August 15, US President Donald Trump will meet with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Alaska has special historical significance for Russia, and Russians like to repeat that they will take it back. These days, ahead of the meeting, Russian propaganda is not promoting the theme of "Alaska is ours!" But we have collected some previous statements.Читати українськоюRecently, Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, noted that Alaska was "born as Russian America," where there are "Orthodox roots, forts, and fur trading." It is this state, he said, that makes the US an "Arctic country," hinting that Washington owes this to Russia, which sold the state in the past.

Soviet movies, along with a major part of Soviet literature and songs, attempted to describe an alternative utopian world that had little to do with the real Soviet life in the USSR, but which was implicitly presented as the "reality".In this imagined Soviet life, there was no poverty, no corruption among high officials, no police brutality against innocent, unarmed or unresisting people, and no police officer could knowingly collude with organized crime; while the existence of crime, corruption, and hooliganism was acknowledged, they were presented as marginal activities that could only exist at the lower levels of society. In this world, the criminals were always afraid of the police, but never vice versa.Читати українською

Today, Kyiv is under constant shelling, despite the "peace talks" and Trump's attempts to appease Putin. Based on information from open sources, Texty.org.ua decided to analyze the locations and times of strikes in Kyiv since the start of the war. Not all hits are reflected in our graph, only those that have been officially reported. Nevertheless, the data allows us to see certain patterns.Читати українською