Tag: Dmytro Kuleba

Ukrainians Can Warm Themselves Up Using a Vibrator

This was suggested by the fiancée of the former minister of foreign affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, Svitlana Paveletskaya.

Svitlana is the owner of a sex shop.

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There are toys that regulate temperature, and we are promoting them now for cold evenings because they can be heated up to 38 degrees. If you don’t have heating, you can sleep among vibrators and be heated normally.

Earlier, Kuleba himself suggested Ukrainians could visit restaurants during blackouts.

Please, today, drink a coffee not at home but in a coffee house, have a lunch in a restaurant or buy a snack at a kiosk, go to the bazaar, visit a hair stylist, buy something at a small shop or for the grace of god buy it online – support small and mid-tier Ukrainian business.

It is most important for him now. Due to attacks on the energy system there is not lighting and heating, and the losses are piling. Because of the cold and financial troubles there are fewer people entering – earnings are falling into abyss. Due to war, there are fewer workers, and the pressure of taxes is only increasing.

That is why it is important that every one of you supports small and mid-tier business.

The Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Denies Agency to Crimeans

Recently, the journal Foreign Affairs published a commentary by John O’Laughlin, Gerard Toal, and Kristin M. Bakke largely in reaction to the statement published by the State Department, confirming the latter’s opinion that Crimea is Ukraine. Their argument boils down to this:

But when Ukrainian activists and Western politicians claim that the residents of Crimea are “living under occupation,” they mistake the experience of some for the experience of all. The majority of Crimeans do not experience Russian rule as oppressive, alien, or unwelcome.

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Basically, it does not really matter what the Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo thinks. It does not reflect the realities on the ground.

The commentary raised the ire of the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, who was compelled to write a reaction where he says:

But there are several fundamental problems with measuring popular opinion during an illegal occupation. There is no free environment in Crimea in which one can express political views, especially if those views contradict the Kremlin’s line. Moreover, the people of Crimea have spent more than six years under a heavy barrage of Russian TV propaganda without easy access to alternative sources. 

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Kuleba basically said that the people of Crimea lack agency because of Russian repression, and because of being subjected to Russian propaganda barrage. He goes on to mention the repression of some subversive elements, particularly from the ranks of the Crimean Tatars without telling us that these repressed elements represent a minuscule sample of the Crimean population.

Using the same logic, one may argue that we are unable to objectively measure pro-Russian sentiment in Ukraine because people with pro-Russian views, pro-Russian media in Ukraine, Russian TV, Russian social media platforms etc. have been repressed and banned, put in jail, or outright murdered like Oles’ Buzyna.