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Dictionary of War by Nikolai Karpitsky

Agency, Evil, Guilt, Identity, Ideology, Myth, Mordor, Necro-imperialism, Propaganda, Rashism, Responsibility, Russia, Russian Imperial Consciousness

Life in Wartime

Nikolai Karpitsky. Russian Occupation Means Repression Based on Identity: Testimony of a Resident of Kherson 04.03.2026

Nikolai Karpitsky. Winter in Sloviansk: The Goal Is to Survive Together with Ukraine 11.02.2026

Nikolai Karpitsky. The Existential Experience of War 19.01.2026

Nikolai Karpitsky. Life in Occupied Kherson: An Eyewitness Account 12.01.2026

Nikolai Karpitsky. No peace agreement is possible, nor is life under occupation 12.11.2025

Nikolai Karpitsky. Life Under Shelling. Donbas 2014–2025. An Eyewitness’s Notes 20.10.2025

Nikolai Karpitsky. Studying in Ukraine During the War: “Sorry I didn’t reply during the class – it’s hard to get even a half-decent internet connection in the basement” 03.03.2025

Nikolai Karpitsky. We need the idea of de-imperialization. 15.06.2022

Identity, National and Social Consciousness

Nikolai Karpitsky. Is the State an Instrument of Law or an Apparatus of Violence? Russia, Poland, and Ukraine: Historical Contradictions Can Be Overcome, but Civilizational Ones Cannot 17.07.2026

Nikolai Karpitsky. What do the residents of the Donetsk region think about Russia? 06.10.2025

Nikolai Karpitsky. Party of the Dead against Putin's Russia 21.10.2024

The Nature of Russian Imperial Consciousness

Nikolai Karpitsky. Russian Imperial Consciousness Between Imperial Pacifism and Necro-Imperialism 16.09.2026

Nikolai Karpitsky. Russian Imperial Consciousness and the Loss of an Adequate Perception of Probability 13.08.2026

Nikolai Karpitsky. Sexual Humiliation as an Instrument of Russian Military Policy 17.06.2026

Nikolai Karpitsky. The Messianic Idea of Russia. Article Two. Is Russia’s Greatness More Important Than One’s Own Religion and the Lives of Fellow Believers? 12.06.2026

Nikolai Karpitsky. Russia’s Messianic Idea. Article One. The Baltic States Under Threat 26.05.2026

Nikolai Karpitsky. Will Russian Zoomers Break the Cycle of Imperial Consciousness? 13.05.2026

Nikolai Karpitsky. Russia Cannot Renounce Further Military Expansion 07.05.2026

Nikolai Karpitsky. The Ideological Concept of Russian Culture Amid the War: What Should We Do with It? 10.12.2025

Nikolai Karpitsky. Russia Lives in a Looking-Glass World. There, it is already at war with the West 12.11.2025

Nikolai Karpitsky. The Uprising of the Archaic: Why Do People Choose Dictatorship 14.05.2025 

Nikolai Karpitsky. Can Russia be civilized? ‘An entire generation is responsible for the terror in Ukraine’ 20.01.2025

Nikolai Karpitsky. War as an End in Itself: Why Does Russia Never Run Out of Volunteers Willing to Die in Ukraine? 05.12.2024

Nikolai Karpitsky. War Against Ukrainian Identity: Why Russians Do Not Believe Even Their Relatives in Ukraine 18.11.2024

Nikolai Karpitsky. Russia invaded Ukraine for no reason. Interview 08.07.2022

Religion and War

Nikolai Karpitsky. Stockholm Syndrome and the Identity Crisis of Russian Krishnaites 08.09.2025

Nikolai Karpitsky. The Kremlin’s Quasi-Religion 18.08.2025

Nikolai Karpitsky. Followers of Hare Krishna go to fight for Ukraine. War has changed Krishnaites 23.09.2024

Ideology and Propaganda Mechanisms

Nikolai Karpitsky. Tucker Carlson’s Narratives About World War II: Is Compromise with Hitler or Putin Possible? 12.10.2026

Nikolai Karpitsky. Why Are the Russians Trying to Destroy the Monument to the Soviet Soldiers Who Liberated Sloviansk from the Nazi Occupiers? 02.09.2026

Nikolai Karpitsky. The Moment of Truth: A View of the Russian–Ukrainian War Through the Eyes of a Resident of Sloviansk, 22,04.2026

Nikolai Karpitsky. Russian Myths about the Residents of Donbas. Why does Putin’s Empire need Lies? 17.12.2025

Nikolai Karpitsky. Post-Truth and War: How to Distinguish Truth from Lies? 16.07.2025 

 

The Military-Political Situation

 

Nikolai Karpitsky. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Oleksandr Syrskyi, and Mykhailo Drapatyi: Professionalism or Military Talent? 11.08.2026

Nikolai Karpitsky. Technology Has Changed Warfare. Will Western Leaders Draw the Right Conclusions from Valerii Zaluzhnyi’s Analysis? 23.07.2026

Nikolai Karpitsky. A Ukrainian View of the Peace Negotiations: If You Confuse War with Conflict, You May Mistake Capitulation for Peace 05.03.2026

Nikolai Karpitsky. Trilateral Peace Negotiations on Ukraine: Participants Seem to Be from Different Parallel Worlds 27.01.2026

Nikolai Karpitsky. Will Iran Follow Russia’s Path, or Is There Hope for a Better Future? 21.01.2026

Nikolai Karpitsky. Russia is preparing for war with NATO. These are the strengths of the Kremlin and the West 27.12.2024

Appeal to the Honourable Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi from Prof. Nikolai Karpitsky 04.10.2024

Publications by colleagues and friends

Andrey Kuzichkin. Putin’s Imperial Project – Assimilation of Ukrainians and the Erasure of Ukrainian Heritage 22.09.2025

Andrey Kuzichkin: Russian Propaganda vs. NATO. Who in the West Supports Putin? 04.08.2025

Andrey Kuzichkin. The Fight for ‘Traditional Values’ Has Turned Russians into Zombies 09.07.2024

Yulia Fil. ISKCON Temple in Lviv. March 12, 2022. Ukraine 2022

Piotr Kaszuwara (in Polish) and Bradley Woody (in English) talk to Nikolai Karpitsky: Together we are strong. Sloviansk, September 10, 2022 🎬

Anna Chagina: “I was scared to sing “Solnechny Krug” 06.11.2024

National war chronicle 2022

The Siberian philosopher Nikolai Karpitsky gave a talk on “The War and the Crisis of Religious Identity” 15.03.2025

Nikolai Karpitsky. May 12, 2023. Ukraine. Four hundred and forty-third day of the war

Victoria Arnold. The criminal trial of Tomsk musician Anna Chagina // Forum 18, 20 March 2023

Victoria Arnold. Tomsk musician's criminal trial to begin 15 March // Forum 18, 7 March 2023

Nikolai Karpitsky. December 13, 2022. Ukraine. Two hundred ninety-third day of the war

Anna Chagina. Putin Is a Demon Who Stole My Country

Nikolai Karpitsky. November 24, 2022. Ukraine. Two hundred and seventy-fourth day of war

Nikolai Karpitsky. November 12, 2022. Ukraine. Two hundred and sixty second day

Nikolai Karpitsky. November 5, 2022. Ukraine. Two hundred and fifty fifth day of war

Nikolai Karpitsky. October 30, 2022. Ukraine. Two hundred and forty-ninth day of war

Nikolai Karpitsky. June 15, 2022. Ukraine. One hundred and twelfth day of war

Nikolai Karpitsky. June 3, 2022. Ukraine. Hundredth Day of War

Nikolai Karpitsky. May 30, 2022. Ukraine. Ninety-sixth day of the war

Nikolai Karpitsky. May 23, 2022. Ukraine. Eighty-ninth day of war

Nikolai Karpitsky. May 8, 2022. Ukraine. Seventy-fourth day of war

Nikolai Karpitsky. May 3, 2022. Ukraine. Sixty-ninth day of war

Nikolai Karpitsky. April 28, 2022. Ukraine. Sixty-fourth day of war

Nikolai Karpitsky. April 24, 2022. Ukraine. Sixtieth day of war

Nikolai Karpitsky. April 17, 2022. Ukraine. Fifty-third day of war

Nikolai Karpitsky. April 11, 2022. Ukraine. Forty-seventh day of war

Nikolai Karpitsky. April 8, 2022. Ukraine. Forty-fourth day of the war

Nikolai Karpitsky. April 6, 2022. Ukraine. Forty-second day of war

Nikolai Karpitsky. April 3, 2022. Ukraine. Thirty-ninth day of war

Nikolai Karpitsky. April 2, 2022. Ukraine. Thirty-eighth day of war

Nikolai Karpitsky. 31 March 2022. Ukraine. Thirty-sixth day of war

Nikolai Karpitsky. March 29, 2022. Ukraine. Thirty-fourth day of war

Nikolai Karpitsky. March 27, 2022. Ukraine. Thirty-second day of war

Nikolai Karpitsky. March 24, 2022. Ukraine. Twenty-ninth day of war

Nikolai Karpitsky. March 20, 2022. Ukraine. Twenty-fifth day of war

Nikolai Karpitsky. March 17, 2022. Ukraine. Twenty-second day of war

Nikolai Karpitsky. March 14, 2022. Ukraine. Nineteenth Day of War

Nikolai Karpitsky. March 10, 2022. Ukraine. Fifteenth Day of War

Nikolai Karpitsky. March 6, 2022. Ukraine. Eleventh Day of War

Thoughts

Nikolai Karpitsky: About the current situation in a few short theses 24.03.2024

Nikolai Karpitsky. Mordor

Publications

Victoria Arnold. RUSSIA: Pacifist Christian musician fined, banned from internet posting

Valentin Dyakonov. Art of the Necro-Empire. 21.04.2022

Yulia Fil. ISKCON in the time of War in Donbas (2014 – 2019)

Karpitsky Nikolai. Persecution of Christians in the Donbas (Eastern Ukraine, 2014). Kyiv: Mission Eurasia, 2015. 20 p.

Karpitskiy Nikolay. Freedom of Belief no More // The Ukrainian Week. 2015. № 7 (89). July, P. 36-39.