Nina 🐙 Byzantina
@NinaByzantina
Artist, writer, Russia analyst | PhD History | Subscribers: http://buymeacoffee.com/NinaByzantina
What really happened to the husband of Russia's Catherine the Great?! 💀
The current round of the RUSSIA-UKRAINE ceasefire negotiations is led by a Ukraine-born historian and Chairman of the Union of Writers (Medinsky) on the Russian side and an Uzbekistan-born alleged U.S. citizen and Secretary of National Security (Umerov) on the Ukrainian side.…


I am thinking about either doing a different--my own--weekly show (or one with a co-host), but it has to be a better fit. In this regard, audience support is really important.
I miss the Winter Latina show ❄️💔
Just normal Ukraine War things: AFU commander-in-chief Syrskyi sent a million rubles to Russia for his elderly father’s top healthcare in Moscow, media reports. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter whether you believe that Ukrainians and Russians are “brothers,” or whether they’re too…

Ukrainian media has graduated from reporting about grandmas repelling Russian attacks with pickle jars to little fluffy dogs going after Shahed drones. 😂😭

Miss Black Sea beauty contest, 1974, Golden Sands, Bulgaria. Looks like socialist Bulgaria experienced capitalist rot early on (though, of course, the ladies are beautiful 😁).

Soviet nostalgia: the start of the Moscow Olympics, July 1980. Incidentally, I bought that vintage teddybear a few years ago—of all places, in Estonia!



How I know this is utter bullshit is that for all the apparent infiltration of “every section of British society,” these Russian spies have delivered zero results! 🤣 Has anything in the UK’s Russian foreign policy changed? If anything, it became worse!

Another day, another brave Ukrainian 🇺🇦volunteer is about to head to the frontlines to defend Ursula’s and Kaja’s rule over the plebs in the EU.
Where do you draw the line between ideology (beliefs in general) and art you enjoy?
