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Estonian ambassador to Ukraine and staff hold a meeting with a diplomat from the head office... in a Kyiv bomb shelter.
RT @AntsuGert: Working dinner in Kyiv was replaced by a working meeting at a bomb shelter. Despite all the alerts we still managed to get three meetings done today. @MargeKahar @KaimoKuusk @MargusGering
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Russian spies posing as diplomats in the Netherlands. How many of these "diplomats" are active in your country?
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Something we need to begin to think about and plan for already now. We need genuinely gifted legal thinkers to work through these issues.
h/t to @peterpomeranzev for raising this.
cc: @benjaminwittes
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/16/propaganda-russia-ukraine-war-crimes-accountability?CMP=share_btn_tw
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.@NTenzer takes on the one question everyone avoids. Yet this is what we must address to have long-term peace in Europe and beyond: a total strategic defeat of the only country that seriously threatens us with war.
Expect Russian media to go berserk.
https://tenzerstrategics.substack.com/p/what-would-the-necessary-total-strategic
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So killing their own?
RT @Milan8662: Photos from yesterday's massacre at the Russian training ground, where two mobilized according to official information killed 11 (and according to unofficial information - from 22) mobilized soldiers of the RF Armed Forces.#RussianMobilization
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Russian culture at its finest.
RT @EuromaidanPress: In Kherson, Russian occupiers killed famous conductor Yuriy Kerpatenko
Russian occupiers shot him in his own house after he refused to cooperate with them & to perform in their "holiday concert" planned to show "restoration of peaceful life in Kherson" https://t.co/HCUOJuoQ2C
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Why every Russian who comes to the West is not necessarily a liberal and a democrat.
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-revanchism-deeper-vladimir-putin-war-ukraine/
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An enlightening thread
RT @Volodymyr_D_: Comparison of Russian and Ukrainian attack schemes:
I decided to compare the offensive of Russia in the spring and the counteroffensive of Ukraine in September in order to understand the reasons for such different results 1/17 #RussiaUkraineWar #kharkivcounteroffensive
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Whole lotta Ladas comin' to Saint Pete.
RT @RALee85: 5/
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"Suomalaisten maine Venäjä-suhteitten erityisosaajina kuulostaa Lipposen ja Ahon jäljiltä mustalta huumorilta."
Pretty much, yes.
A good piece from Jari Tervo.
https://www.hs.fi/sunnuntai/art-2000009132794.html
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There are poor people who have to go to food banks not to go hungry.
Then there are "pour people" who don't have to worry at all.
RT @RebelsAnimal: Milk Pours are currently happening across the UK. All are concerned individuals calling on the government to give us a livable future, a #PlantBasedFuture
Here's the latest milk pour happening in Edinburgh @waitrose
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This too should be read to understand why lumping three Eastern slavic nations together by the Nobel Peace Prize was obnoxious to many.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/10/13/ukraine-deserves-the-nobel-peace-prize-russia-needs-it/
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Horrific.
After the war we’ll give visas to the murderers so they wouldn’t feel humiliated and can learn about democracy https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/15/world/europe/ukraine-bucha-women-russia.html
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FBI official was warned after Jan. 6 that some in the bureau were 'sympathetic' to the Capitol rioters https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/fbi-official-was-warned-jan-6-bureau-sympathetic-capitol-rioters-rcna52144 via @nbcnews
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This should be interesting...
https://theins.ru/en/news/256042
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From now on we must replace the term "own goal" with the verb, "to Belgorod"
RT @CrimeaUA1: Білгород бомбить сам себе. І це не жарт
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This is a very smart article by @henryfarrell and @ANewman_forward
RT @henryfarrell: 1. Six stories in the last few days about the weaponization of the world economy. It's very strange for @ANewman_forward and me to see the logic of our 2019 article (and forthcoming book - Underground Empire - Holt 2023) playing out. https://t.co/Z742KIljsl
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Qazaqs get it. A thread. 👍
RT @tkassenova: On Russia's war against Ukraine and the Russian language. I am writing this as someone who grew up in Almaty, where during the Soviet period, only a couple of schools taught in Kazakh. My peers and I were completely Russified. 1/7
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There are a number of countries here whose own neighborhoods are not so aggression-free and who might find others’ neutrality rather painful when it’s their turn to be a victim of aggression.
Just look at the list.
RT @VeikoSpolitis: Reminder to Algeria, Armenia, Bolivia, Burundi, Central African Republic, China, Congo, Cuba, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Guinea, Honduras, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho, Mali Mongol…
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