2015-2018: The OSCE Years

In 2015 I had just arrived in eastern Ukraine to work as a diplomat. My job was to secure the safe passage of civilians over a bridge in a forest that divided Russia-occupied Ukraine from the rest of the country. Even in my first moments at that spot (where I was to spend three years), I intuited that there was something folklore about the situation.

Source: Book Proposal

Three years observing Russian combat propaganda at first hand. The Cottage in the Woods case study. The Mother and the Maiden. Artillery duels as trolling. The foundational anecdote of the sister in St Petersburg. All these observations accumulated but the conceptual framework had not yet crystallised.

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