Daily News | A West Philly expert on Russian and Ukraine is now a social media celebrity
Like most middle schoolers stuck in the house on a sick day, Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon passed the time on the couch, binging TV shows.
“I went to sleep Sunday night and had 9,000 followers and woke up with 26,000,” she said Thursday before heading off to a Slavic studies conference in Virginia. “Unfortunately, I’ve also been blocking people with reckless abandon.”St. Julian-Varnon, 32, of West Philly, spent time living in Odessa and Kyiv while studying Ukrainian history at Harvard. As a Black woman in an overwhelmingly white country, St.
“I know a lot of worried people,” she said. “These are real people. This isn’t a game. There are human beings living in metro stations.” Though she has not visited Russia, she has many Russian friends , and notes that the country is not a monolith. There are protestors denouncing Putin’s actions who face certain arrest or worse.
“There’s so many trolls and so many terrible takes,” she said. “There is some really scary stuff out there, like Tucker Carlson saying Putin is in the right. I never thought I would see the day when Republicans were praising a Russian president.”
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