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Journalist | Policy & Practitioner Fellow @C4ARR | Writing book on 🇺🇦's Azov movement (ibidem, 2021) | 2019 RVI Fellow @BIRN_Network | @bellingcat, etc.

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Far-right combat sports: A dangerous training ground for violence

By Michael Colborne
aljazeera.com — Europe’s largest far-right combat sports event will be held online this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. “Kampf der Nibelungen” or “Battle of the Nibelungs,” a reference to old Germanic and Norse legends, is beloved by white supremacists from across Europe and beyond – who are both fans and fighters.
Oct 09, 2020 Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?

How a Canadian City Got Sucked Into Russia’s Information War

By Michael Colborne
codastory.com — Artwork by Alessandra CugnoIt’s a question of which measure of faraway you want to choose for Edmonton. More than four hours flying time from the capital Ottawa, it is Canada’s northernmost major city. It hardly seems relevant to mention that it is also nearly 5000 miles, or 10 time zones, away from Moscow. But in recent months, the Russian capital has seemed a bit closer, as Edmonton has found itself in the cross hairs in the Kremlin’s global information war.
Jul 18, 2020 Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?

Levijatan: Serbian Animal Rights Vigilantes Go To The Polls - bellingcat

By Michael Colborne
bellingcat.com — In a scene from Srećni Ljudi (Happy People), a Serbian television show from the early 1990s, two young brothers harass a younger boy sitting on a bench, a dog underneath his feet. “Is that the little mongrel you got for your birthday?” One brother, played by Pavle Bihali, says to him, using a derogatory word in Serbian for a dog. The two brothers are bullies who constantly pester the younger boy, with Bihali’s character rifling through his backpack in an earlier episode.
Jun 18, 2020 Open in Who Shared Wrong byline?
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Oct 31, 2020
Michael Colborne
@ColborneMichael
Serbia's Levijatan mirrors "the global trend of...right wing movements, trying to incorporate the topics traditionally encompassed by the left political mobilisation spectre, such as ecology, and, within it, animal rights" @ResonantVoices @BalkanInsight  https://balkaninsight.com/2020/10/23/in-far-right-ecologism-european-extremists-pursue-broader-appeal/ â€¦
Oct 30, 2020
Michael Colborne
@ColborneMichael
.@seb_bourdon's article here  https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/01/at-ukraines-asgardsrei-a-french-connection/ â€¦
Oct 30, 2020
Michael Colborne
@ColborneMichael
As @RobertClaus13 notes, more evidence of nexus between combat sports + literal combat for neo-Nazis - a French far-right hooligan with connections to Ukraine's far right (as @seb_bourdon wrote for @bellingcat earlier this year) is in Armenia & wants to form a volunteer battalion
Oct 29, 2020
Michael Colborne
@ColborneMichael
A bizarre term burst onto Brazilian far-right politics - "Ukrainize" ("ucranizar"), to radicalize a protest movement to provoke government repression. Ukraine - both real but often very much imagined - continues to feed far-right fantasies worldwide  https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/29/how-brazil-was-ukrainized/ â€¦
Oct 29, 2020
Michael Colborne
@ColborneMichael
@fabrice_deprez @UnaHajdari Fabrice: As a continental French speaker, "tabarnak" makes no sense as a profanity to me Michael: the same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have culminated in censorship of my own articles
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