Here's why Minneapolis reminds me of what I once saw in Ukraine
When the government asserts authority in ways that a growing share of the public experiences as arbitrary or vindictive, it begins to lose legitimacy.
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Oleh Kotsyuba
Oleh Kotsyuba is the director of publications at Harvard University’s Ukrainian Research Institute, where he runs a sprawling book publishing program; Harvard Ukrainian Studies, a peer-reviewed journal in Ukrainian studies; Ukrainica, a database for teaching and research; and the Translating Ukraine Summer Institute, a joint training program for Ukrainian-to-English translators. He is also the chief online editor at Krytyka, a leading Ukrainian intellectual journal, a board member at the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S., and the advisory board co-chair at the HUCUS Foundation.
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