toomas ilves, ex-verif @ilvestoomas@respublicae.eu

*even* more, @amandarivkin
RT @amandarivkin: Wartime in Russia means you can steal more

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622910211219460096

Russia ends disclosure rules for officials, citing wartime secrecy needs https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/06/russia-corruption-war-ukraine-wagner/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622894238483578881

https://e-estonia.com/nortal-pulls-off-the-first-ever-e-census-in-oman/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622893201546780673

UK to design ‘digital pound’ that could fend off future private tech rival https://www.ft.com/content/5730d761-2a7e-470f-8bee-953b64f7775d

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622883570665619459

Iran’s ‘ghost fleet’ switches into Russian oil https://www.ft.com/content/955389bf-d01b-4acb-bd15-b764425a8a18

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622867655966195712

Important thread:
RT @neil_abrams: Anyone who insists the West stop arming Ukraine or force it to negotiate a peace agreement against its will is, wittingly or not, endorsing mass death and other human rights abuses.

How do we know? Russia’s own recent history tells us so.

A thread:

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622705901848109056

Russia’s budget deficit soars as energy revenues slump by almost half https://www.ft.com/content/3def31b3-ca3d-4d6b-8add-3008ac6dfb44

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622702053318615041

Cute orientalism regarding CEE
RT @derJamesJackson: The biggest political difference between Eastern and Western Europe is that parties in the West like the Tories & SPD are institutions in themselves. In the East they are vehicles for a single politician.

Emmanuelle Macron is western Europe's first Eastern European leader

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622628450849681408

An amazing thread. How does Russia influence European politicians? Cash.
RT @alexzfinley: This latest investigation from @OCCRP is a doozy. Strap in for a long thread on Russian influence operations. 1/ https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/kremlin-linked-group-arranged-payments-to-european-politicians-to-support-russias-annexation-of-crimea

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622594833469538304

Mit Putins Papst in den Bergen: Priester, Spion, Propagandist: Das geheime Leben des Moskauer Kirchenfürsten in der Schweiz | Tages-Anzeiger https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/priester-spion-propagandist-das-geheime-leben-des-moskauer-kirchenfuersten-in-der-schweiz-566103963787

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622547389612531712

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-expected-to-send-ukraine-longer-range-smart-bombs-in-next-aid-package-11675270504?st=3tci5hjhawix37j&reflink=share_mobilewebshare

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622543531691634693

More outstanding reporting from ⁦@dpatrikarakos⁩ https://unherd.com/2023/02/the-madness-behind-the-battle-for-bakhmut/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622535070241144837

Kupja viha kui orjad teda ei usu
RT @evateemad: Careful, Mart. Mõisavalitseja paistab rahvamehe tagant liialt välja.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622505848651087875

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/02/03/exclusive-german-football-coach-unmasked-russian-double-agent/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622323610982514690

Exclusive: German football coach unmasked as 'Russian double agent' https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/02/03/exclusive-german-football-coach-unmasked-russian-double-agent/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622322478017019906

Dogfight Football: Germany and the Art of Strategy https://fourninesecurity.de/en/2023/01/31/dogfight-football-germany-and-the-art-of-strategy

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622316275652345861

Ukraine in Our Future https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/02/23/ukraine-in-our-future-timothy-garton-ash/ via @nybooks

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622247150242381826

In memoriam Yevhen, a soldier of Ukraine https://timothygartonash.substack.com/p/in-memoriam-yevhen-a-soldier-of-ukraine?sd=pf

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622206935616438272

Rather haughty, arrogant and dismissive to say that after we've watched both the 2017 and 2021 presidential campaigns, @BastonMihaita.

More accurate would be to say French politics has no clue about Eastern Europe.

This tweet is a prime example
RT @BastonMihaita: There is a side of French politics most Eastern Europeans still fail to grasp. Support for Russia (broadly speaking) is essentially a right-wing thing.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622187391166423040

Back to the gang wars of the 1990s, except with tanks and armies.
RT @MarkGaleotti: Remember Igor Mangushev, the Russian merc who brandished a skull he said had belonged to one of the Azovstal defenders? He's just been shot in the head. So what?
A short thread on some wider dynamics in the Prigozhin empire 1/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1622118701024657408