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

Some clown the other day called Estonian and Finnish PMs “racists” for ending tourist visas for the Russian federation https://n.respublicae.eu/kramarenkomari3/status/1675457852863807489
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Mariia Kramarenko: This russian guy verbally attacked Ukrainians in Türkiye and admitted on the video that he was killing Ukrainians and payed his vacation with money he received for committing war crimes
There are no military targets for russians in Ukraine, crossing the border with gun is a crime https://n.respublicae.eu/larafilinni/status/1675391484885868545
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1675466345851285504

30,000 Estonians just singing in the rain

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‘Some never came back’: how Russians hunted down veterans of Donbas conflict | Ukraine | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/02/russians-hunted-down-veterans-of-donbas-conflict-ukraine

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This is nothing what the next fifty years will be like hunting down Russian war criminals. Nothing. https://n.respublicae.eu/monicam444/status/1675493336134610951
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Monya: ‘Some never came back’: how Russians hunted down veterans of Donbas conflict https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/02/russians-hunted-down-veterans-of-donbas-conflict-ukraine?CMP=share_btn_tw
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Lätlaste super idee: https://n.respublicae.eu/Gerashchenko_en/status/1675579421753847808
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Anton Gerashchenko: Latvian police passes the cars they confiscate from drunk drivers to Ukrainian Defenders!
(Cars are really needed at the frontlines as they get destroyed often, and they save lives).
Ukraine is honored to have such amazing friends! Thank you for standing with us!
📹: Laura… https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1675579421753847808 https://t.co/GCuDJInHZT
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1675598472601391104

In the pouring rain, nearly at the end of the Song Festival last night.
https://kultuur.err.ee/1609023635/vaata-uuesti-ta-lendab-mesipuu-poole-uhendkoori-esituses #ERR

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct4xlh
Acclaimed Finnish-Estonian novelist @SofiOksanen on her best-selling novel Purge. Do listen.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1675385196386852868

Could Putin Lose Power? | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/could-putin-lose-power

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1675224870907420672

Putin looks weaker than ever but his opponents should expect vengeance https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/01/putin-looks-weaker-than-ever-but-his-opponents-should-expect-vengeance?CMP=share_btn_tw

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1675163887618908160

Mercs fighting in Ukraine: Redut, btw, is owned by Finnish citizen Gennadi Timchenko. But read the whole thread. https://n.respublicae.eu/MarkGaleotti/status/1675126363823407106
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Mark Galeotti: Then there are the real mercs. The larger ones that remain like Patriot, Shchit, Redut, are essentially offshoots of the MOD. 3/
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/07/29/three-russian-mercenaries-are-killed-in-syria-and-they-re-not-from-the-pmc-you-ve-heard-of
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1675165171365343232

Another great piece from @dpatrikarakos. Do read. @UnHerd https://unherd.com/2023/07/dodging-shells-on-ukraines-eastern-front/?=frlh

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1675178215441149952

Thread by @bctallis https://n.respublicae.eu/bctallis/status/1674826535625277463
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Benjamin Tallis 🇺🇦: 'Security Guarantees' for #Ukraine are a hot topic - but it's a false debate.
NATO membership is the only viable option - but there's no consensus.
So we need an interim solution:
⏩We should extend the #JEF &amp; transform it into a
'Joint European Defence Initiative' (#JEDI)
🧵1/ https://t.co/eDcVDxpN5s
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1674863989698748433

Commies being communists. Killing people.
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Institute of National Remembrance: Lidia Lwow was arrested #OTD in🗓1948 together with her partner, Zygmunt “Łupaszka” Szendzielarz by the communists. He was executed in 1951, while she got a life sentence.
In 1956, Lwow was released from prison, became an archaeologist and helped rebuild Warsaw’s Royal Castle. https://t.co/vzLkaxYtPT
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1674749412696895489

Well, they're both drunks.
Just Dima the Dim's Korsakoff's syndrome has progressed to a more advanced stage.
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Maria Drutska 🇺🇦: I feel that Maria Zakharova is sometimes competing with Medvedev for the most absurd statement of the week:
‘In Kyiv, additional radiation measurement devices have been installed, according to city authorities. Recently, exercises have begun in several regions of Ukraine in case… https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1674747674262749184
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1674751026946011138

Isn't "wet-work" as the Russians call it, usually left to the GRU?
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The Kyiv Independent: ⚡️Intelligence chief: Russia's FSB is assigned to kill Prigozhin.
After Wagner Group's short-lived rebellion, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) was tasked with liquidating mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, according to Ukraine's military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov.
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1674751445353078785

Awwwww.🥲
It's ok, Russia's big, why would anyone from there even want to come to a small, real and successful democracy?
Besides, it's not ethnic or "racial". Just passport carriers.
Don't worry, maybe in 50 years it will change.
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smvlv 🐝 ჰიკკი 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈: Two racist bitches from Estonia and Finland banned Russians to enter their countries just in case, Putin's 2018 spoiler and the one that was working for Putin's propaganda for 20 years.
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1674755094040944647

Mida teevad mulgid* vene õigeusu kiriku juures.
*paistab, et Halliste kihelkonnast.
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Konstantin Eggert MBE: Посланник папы кардинал Дзуппи в Москве 1) унижен Кремлем - его принял советник Путина Ушаков. В Киеве он говорил с Зеленским; 2) Встретился с разыскиваемой МУС похитительницей украинских детей Львовой-Беловой. Жаль, без военкоров. https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2023-06/holy-see-cardinal-zuppi-in-moscow-to-open-paths-of-peace.html
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Forces: Estonia Prepares for the War After Ukraine https://strategypage.com/htmw/htworld/articles/20230629.aspx

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1674504764392964096

Regulation is Not Enough: A Blueprint for Winning the AI Race https://www.justsecurity.org/87005/regulation-is-not-enough-a-blueprint-for-winning-the-ai-race/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1674409093921132545

Unmoderated free-for-alls that attract dangerous fringe groups are as old as the internet—but Telegram is something different, @cwarzel writes. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/06/telegram-app-encrypted-messaging-russia/674558/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share

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