Monday, January 6, 2025

Canadian academic placed on Ukraine’s state-linked ‘kill list’ over Nazi tweet

 

Ivan Katchanovski University of Ottawa Canada Mirotvorets kill list Ukraine Nazi Maidan

Ivan Katchanovski says he has been added to the notorious Mirotvorets list for “launching a campaign against” WWII Nazi veteran

Canadian political scientist Ivan Katchanovski has been added to the notorious Ukrainian state-linked Mirotvorets ‘kill list,’ for his alleged involvement in Russian information operations, for “manipulation of socially significant information,” and for spreading anti-Ukrainian as well as Russian “propaganda myths.”

The scholar, who is a part-time professor at the University of Ottawa, described his inclusion on the list as “Orwellian” and linked the move to his study of the Ukrainian far-right.

According to Katchanovski, his post with US-based tech mogul Elon Musk “about Nazi SS Galicia veteran,” his tweet about a “neo-Nazi Azov leader, who gave Nazi salute in front of Nazi flag,” and his “academic study of far-right involvement” in Maidan “are posted by Myrotvorets as evidence of a ‘deliberate act against the national security of Ukraine, the peace, the security of humanity and the international legal order, as well as other offenses’.”

In a post on X on Sunday, Katchanovski wrote that he is “on Myrotvorets hit list for ‘launching [a] campaign against’ an SS Galicia Division veteran hailed as a hero in Canada parliament” – an apparent reference to Yaroslav Hunka. The 99-year-old came into the spotlight in 2023 when he appeared in the Canadian parliament as a guest during a visit by Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, and received a standing ovation.  (more...)

Canadian academic placed on Ukraine’s state-linked ‘kill list’ over Nazi tweet



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