Russel Bonner Bentley (“Texac”) reports from the Donetsk People’s Republic

As many in our audience know, Russell Bentley (who goes by the name of “Texas”, now converted to “Texac” in deference to the local Russian language in Donetsk) is one of a handful of Americans who have volunteered to fight for the freedom of the new separatist republics in Ukraine, resisting the control and Neonazi ideology imposed by the Kiev regime, a creature of Western manufacture. In his own way, Russell reminds us all of the courage and honor of the legendary Lincoln Battalion, who fought in the Spanish Civil War, also defending real freedom and democracy from the advancing forces of reaction, fascism, and capitalism. While serving as a frontline soldier along with other foreign volunteers and his new brethren in the Novorossiyan army, Texac is also using his free time to help with the new Novorossiyan news agency, Doni. We wish Russell and his comrades much success in their struggle—an effort we support wholeheartedly. May you be safe and victorious. Long live Novorossiya!

 RUSSEL BONNER BENTLEY, Senior Contributing Editor, Novorossiya Correspondent, Donbass Chronicles Most of our editors and contributors are gifted in many areas, but few merit the label of “polymath” as richly as our Novorossiya correspondent, Russell Bentley, “Texac”. He has been called poet, musician, soldier, political activist, outlaw, smuggler, convict, fugitive, philosopher, lover, teacher and friend—and, indeed, he is all those things, but his course is always guided by an unswerving commitment to the construction of a better world in which peace, genuine freedom, and social justice reign supreme. A native of Texas, Russell joined—at the tender age of 54— the Novorossiyan Armed Forces (NAF) to fight what he sees as the attack on the Donbass people by an illegitimate fascist entity: the Kiev regime installed and supported by the US after a thinly-veiled coup. His example evokes the deeds of the Lincoln Battalion, the American volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil War. As his writing gifts abundantly prove, he also channels John Reed and Hemingway in a rare, seamless, package.