HeyJaredRoman Khimich
Independent researcher and analyst focusing on conflict management, digital trust, and post-Soviet transformations. Sharing notes, translations, and frameworks — mostly from previous works.
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Before the Scandal: A Short History of Ukraine’s Scam Industry (opens the original)
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The rapid escalation of the scandal surrounding Ukraine’s scam industry — all the way to the resignation of the Prosecutor General — has finally brought this phenomenon out of the thick shadows. Once again, the Western audience, including a host of media people and experts, along with the countless commentariat that for the fifth year has been grazing on this lush pasture, richly fertilised with tears, blood and human remains, is discovering yet another open secret with astonishment.The profound
Pompeo + Yermak = ??? (opens the original)
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A most curious little testimony to our times is still preserved on the website of VEON, in the section devoted to the stock-market debut of its Ukrainian asset, Kyivstar. In the video, amid a crowd of impossibly happy people experiencing something very close to euphoria — if not outright ecstasy — over the company’s arrival on Nasdaq, a gentleman of considerable height protrudes like a boil on a wedding cake.His face wears an expression familiar to anyone born in the post-Soviet world. One may c
The Greatest Starlink Victory (opens the original)
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As is well known, in mid-July Mykhailo Fedorov was forced to leave the Ministry of Defence because of an acute conflict with His Excellency. The sophisticated reader may point out that “His Highness” would be the more appropriate form of address for the living embodiment of Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, King Leonidas and Themistocles, as Mr Baunov, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin, aptly put it in yet another of his columns. This is an important theoretical a
The Starlink Whitelist Is Already Being Patched (opens the original)
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This was not a new objection. In earlier work Alexander Turkhanov and I did on Starlink and LEO governance, we treated Starlink not as a communications service but as de facto military infrastructure — a dual-use civilian network that had crossed the threshold of indispensability for military systems of strategic significance. That framing led us, already in February, to a simple conclusion: once Ukraine and SpaceX moved to a terminal-level whitelist, the central problem would not be the honest
What Are the Whitelisted Starlinks Being Saved For? (opens the original)
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My analysis of Ukraine’s Starlink whitelist ended on a deliberately open version: that Russia did not fail to register terminals and did not simply give up, but is holding whitelisted terminals in reserve — spending capability all at once, in a single operation strategically valuable enough to justify burning the registration channel. This note takes the sharpest particular case of that class: bridges. It is a forecast, not a finding, and it is written to be falsified.The paradox it addresses. A
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