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

Lydia and the Vlads. An Estonian woman’s changing understanding of Russians over a quarter century.

A far more perceptive piece than the usual Western-journalist-asks-taxi-driver-what-he-thinks tourism accounts of Estonia. https://quillette.com/2022/08/26/lydia-and-the-vlads/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1563728085710770178

Meta and Facebook users reach preliminary settlement in lawsuit related to handling of user data by third parties such as Cambridge Analytica; details weren’t provided https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-parent-meta-agrees-to-settle-cambridge-analytica-lawsuit-11661629592?st=qf9kjkoz6suiosy&reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter via @WSJ

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Security carries weapons. You cannot enter the EU without registering them.

So either:
1. security smuggled them in, or
2. they were given weapons by accomplices/the Russian embassy.
3. Or German authorities were bribed.

Each of these is a criminal offense.

German media?
RT @JuliaDavisNews: How Putin's Daughter Traveled Unnoticed to Germany

Over the course of several years, Katerina Tikhonova made numerous trips to Bavaria …

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I do hope this is thoroughly investigated by German and the US media. @nytimes @derspiegel
RT @kamilkazani: @CITeam_en is reporting that Russia has formed the 3rd Army Corpse and is deploying it to Ukraine. Where did they form and train it? In Mulino ofc. German-built Mulino is the only modern training ground Putin has, so he trains his army of invasion there. Thank you, Rheinmetall AG

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Non-Russians have been "lesser peoples" for him since his first book, which happened to be about Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians. We are "untermenschen" in his view.
RT @Euan_MacDonald: "Getting Putin to stop fighting will require putting something on the table. Anatol understands this and offers territory. Ukrainian territory."

And with that territory comes people, who will be brutally oppressed by fascist Russian occupation.…

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Police in Estonia fending off info operations targeting Ukrainians

https://news.err.ee/1608697378/police-in-estonia-fending-off-info-operations-targeting-ukrainians #ERR

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A good start but there's so much more in Schmitt that needs to be looked at to get a grip on what drives the Kremlin, especially his critique of liberal democracy and politics as the destruction of the "enemy" as well as his theory of the sovereign @UnHerd https://unherd.com/thepost/what-carl-schmitt-reveals-about-vladimir-putin/?=frpo

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This!!!
RT @grantstern: If Trump really declassified Secret, Top Secret, Confidential, HCS, FISA, ORCON, NOFORN, and SI documents, then America’s greatest secrets including the identity of spies are just a FOIA request away for our adversaries.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1563504625788932096

CIA admits to losing dozens of informants around the world: NYT https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/575384-cia-admits-to-losing-dozens-of-informants-around-the-world-nyt/

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Hey, what do you mean it's immoral to party in Europe as we commit genocide?
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/08/26/visa-bans-on-russians-will-strengthen-the-putin-regime-a78644

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Oh please, Anna Arutunyan @scrawnya. We are not a social welfare agency for Russia. It's for us. Because we don't think you need to party as Russia commits war crimes, nor do we want Ukrainian refugees harassed, because you should fix your own country.

It's not all about YOU.
RT @MoscowTimes: Should Europe close its borders to Russian tourists? Russian commentator Anna Arutunyan argues that it would help Putin's regime much more t…

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In brief: from washing machines to toilets, Russians steal everything, even pictures of Ukrainian kids supporting their country.
RT @abdujalil: Russian propaganda stole this photo of Ukrainian kids to make a poster with a sign saying “Kherson is with Russia forever”. My colleagues from @BBC_ua found the author of that photo - Anna Pasichnik. She took photo of her children to show support of the armed forces of #Ukraine

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1563428562983534592

A little musical accompaniment as we listen to their threats:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUWyODR1_sA
RT @KremlinTrolls: Removing a Soviet occupation monument in Riga has upset Moscow, so they make threats like they own Latvia - an independent country

Moscow should probably be more concerned about losing Ukraine's Crimea, which they've occupied & made into one large military base.

Priorities!

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Let's just give them visa-free travel and be done with it. The countries whose economies need Russian tourism will be ecstatic as will be all the Russians who want to rape, pillage and destroy the rest of us.

What is Europe for but to make Russia and tourist destinations happy?
RT @JayinKyiv: Average Russians explain why they must destroy the Baltics, Poland and the US after Ukraine.

Points to the guy that wants to enslave the Po…

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The U.S. State Department and Yale identify 21 detention sites in Russian-controlled territory. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/world/europe/the-us-state-department-and-yale-identify-21-detention-sites-in-russian-controlled-territory.html?smid=tw-share

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This not the ad for opposing Russian a tourist visa ban Germany, Greece, Cyprus et al. think it is.

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Thread ⬇️
RT @MacaesBruno: So the four greatest symbols of political progressivism in Europe - four women, three PMs and one FM - are all in favour of the tourism visa ban

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1563392217724895235

This is marvelous
RT @saintjavelin: David Attenborough presents...

BBC Planet Ukraine - HIMARS

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1563242248044957697

Oh boy… Those surveillance videos of classified document storage Trump doesn’t want to hand over could be really bad.

Federal authorities investigating Ukrainian immigrant who posed as a Rothschild, rubbed elbows with Trump and his allies at Mar-a-Lago https://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/anna-de-rothschild-trump-mar-a-lago-security-fbi-investigation/

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Russia Exports Digital Surveillance, Despite Sanctions https://cepa.org/russia-exports-digital-surveillance-despite-sanctions/

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