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

It will mean complete and final isolation of the war criminal state known as Russia.
RT @RussianEmbassy: MFA spox #Zakharova: #EU is now busy with important decision – whether or not to issue visas to Russians. But radiation doesn't need a visa to cross borders. If something happens at #Zaporozhye, it will not be about visas, passports or borders.

🔗https://www.mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1827915/?lang=en#4

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1565340677247905793

Why Crimea matters: Ukrainian attacks are frightening Russian tourists and forcing Russia’s army to change tactics
https://www.grid.news/story/global/2022/08/26/why-crimea-matters-ukrainian-attacks-are-frightening-russian-tourists-and-forcing-russias-army-to-change-tactics/?utm_medium=siteshare&utm_source=twitter
via @gridnews

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1565328908253204480

Did Zahharova dye her hair back to black?
RT @Ideetje9: @esben_ridder @petite_michelle @ilvestoomas @Valsts_drosiba

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1565326830063828992

Another brilliant #NAFO manoeuver. Tweet it on.
RT @SvengardHoek: @FHeisbourg @ilvestoomas Defenestrol helps

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1565269770663972864

One of Neil Young’s great songs with Buffalo Springfield:

https://youtu.be/s8EUL-O3hRA
RT @XSovietNews: Chairman of the board of directors of Lukoil Ravil Maganov died falling out of the window of a hospital.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1565252685774872577

Tell me this is a joke:
RT @maxseddon: The chairman of the board of Lukoil, Russia’s biggest privately held oil producer and one of the few Russian companies to criticize the invasion of Ukraine, has died after falling out of a hospital window, Interfax reports https://www.interfax.ru/moscow/860208

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1565250346791968768

Gorbachev’s death cracks open Europe’s Russian divide https://www.politico.eu/article/mikhail-gorbachev-death-europe-russia-divide-putin-lithuania-latvia-scholz-tribute-macron/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1565236331093102593

This is amazing.

But no reason for a visa ban. They can become democratic.

#WandelDurchTourismus
RT @ichbinilya: We just published an intimate look into the lives of a group of Bucha residents during the Russian occupation.

War isn't just atrocities: It's lost pets, wild rumors, bickering neighbors. Here's a portrait of a *community* under incredible stress. (🧵👇)
https://cdn.occrp.org/projects/the-banality-of-brutality/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1565227645431910400

Emotionally? How patronizing @POLITICOEurope .

While we are fed some kind of kumbaya that has brought no results in 31 years
RT @minna_alander: Have to say I hate this “emotional pro-ban” argument, as here in @POLITICOEurope. Ofc people feel strongly, but this is also a very practical challenge for countries like Finland & Estonia that currently bear the burden for border controls & implementation of sanctions

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1565079246585880576

What a year studying in the West gets you:
RT @MargueriteScc: Margarita Simonian, directrice de Russia Today :

« Gorbatchev est mort.
C’est l’heure de rassembler ce qui a été dispersé. »

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1564905681345548290

Making fun of anonymous tankie trolls is a mindless and trifling diversion so enough of @thicc__sportello.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1564902977571540992

" finnish marxist & anti-imperialist // member of
@Revolution_IMT"
😂🤣😝 speaking of pompous...
RT @thicc_sportello: @ilvestoomas @minna_alander You especially, Mr. Ilves, only appear ridiculous when you assume the role of a suffering victim, with your comfortable ruling class position, large audiences & a very big microphone, your comfortable upbringing in the US, your Ivy League degrees and expensive bowties. (2/2)

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1564892360412217345

Give it a break. If you speak for Germany, fine, but not for mankind. It's pompous and insulting.
RT @ABaerbock: Michael #Gorbatschow hat sich in Schicksalsmomenten unserer Geschichte von Frieden & der Verständigung zwischen den Menschen leiten lassen. Das Ende des Kalten Kriegs und die deutsche Einheit sind sein Vermächtnis. Wir trauern um einen Staatsmann, dem wir dafür ewig dankbar sind.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1564890693482565633

The hagiographic panegyrics to Gorbachev in Western Europe today are the perfect accompaniment to their position on visas:

You people in the East of the EU don't matter, your worries don't matter, your issues don't matter.

We know better.
You are the merely the Zwischenländer.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1564890047161171969

War in Ukraine has shaken the EU’s power dynamics https://www.ft.com/content/2206a011-8769-4205-a5d1-f98492cb73b5

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1564885207416807424

Germany and France spout Pollyanna-ish clichés and groundless kumbaya theories to stifle the serious concerns of "lesser" EU members used as the primary Russian gateways to... Germany and France. @MacaesBruno

https://euobserver.com/world/155915?utm_source=euobs&utm_medium=email

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1564879536558415872

Why EU is split over banning Russian tourists https://www.ft.com/content/3c9be0e1-a964-4ea1-b147-70f111f57928

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1564876551979671552

Twitteris turmtule alla sattunud Vene IT-töötaja ja tema EKRE poliitikust abikaasa selgitavad kõmuliste säutsude tausta https://digipro.geenius.ee/eksklusiiv/twitteris-turmtule-alla-sattunud-vene-it-tootaja-ja-tema-ekre-poliitikust-abikaasa-selgitavad-komuliste-sautsude-tausta/ #digipro

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1564875661860392961

The perfect case of the East-West EU moral divide regarding Gorbachev comes from Vilnius blood bath he ordered in 1991.

Mikhail Golovatov, KGB officer responsible for 13 murders in Vilnius was arrested on an EU arrest warrant 20 years later by Austrian border police. 1/2

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1564871042363179008

Christ
RT @amandarivkin: A chip off the old block How wartime pressures drew former first son Ilya Medvedev into politics — Meduza https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/08/30/a-chip-off-the-old-block

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1564860379313971200