18, the group published a YouTube video entitled “How America Funded Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis,” which, following online criticism, was renamed “America, Russia, and Ukraine’s Far-Right Problem.” The video reiterated several of the Kremlin’s favorite narratives: namely that Ukrainian nationalism is a Nazi-linked phenomenon born in the 1940s, and that it has taken root in Kyiv and the rest of the country, in opposition to its pro-Russian east. The group hit those same points in an extensive statement to The Daily Beast on Friday. In recent days, the organization has issued multiple denunciations of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attack on his western neighbor, along with statements of support for anti-invasion Russian demonstrators and for Ukrainian citizens. Nina Turner and Jacobin magazine founder Bhaskar Sunkara, neither of whom replied on the record to requests for comment. It announced a new board of directors earlier this month featuring bold-faced names like ex-Ohio state Sen.
Its stylish videos have included left-wing luminaries such as Cornel West and Slavoj Zizek and celebrities like comedian David Cross and voice actor H. Mike Gravel, and explicitly styled itself as a counterweight to right-wing YouTube phenomenon PragerU. The Gravel Institute was born out of the 2020 presidential bid of eccentric late Alaskan Sen. Now it is desperately attempting to backtrack, in part by deleting tweets. senator and backed by top left-of-center intellectuals and leaders spent the days and weeks ahead of the bloody Russian assault on Ukraine pumping out misinformation, experts say. A self-styled “institution of progressive popular education” founded by a former U.S.