toomas ilves, ex-verif @ilvestoomas@respublicae.eu
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Douze points
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New York Times Pitchbot: Take a Load Off Fani
Dixie DA Willis thinks she can drive old Donald down, but another Trump indictment might just put the load right on Joe.
by Maureen Dowd
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Regional leader Hungary??? Does @TheNatlInterest have any editorial control over what it publishes?
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National Interest: While Budapest is now poised to support Sweden's NATO bid, trouble between the United States and Hungary persists. http://ow.ly/vp2430swG4L
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"A key concern about the Western training is that the instructors have never fought a war of this kind, or against an enemy like Russia. For years, Western armies and their defence industries have focused on fighting insurgencies in the Middle East."
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oDR: “Western militaries providing aid need to come around to the realisation of what is required to make collective training work outside Ukraine.”
@IKoshiw reports on the disconnect between NATO training for Ukrainians and what they need to fight Russia.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/ukraine-russia-training-nato-west-military/
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Attn: @alexzfinley
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Anne-Elisabeth Moutet 🇫🇷🇺🇦: Nice yacht, pity if something were to happen to it.
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That paradise of traditional values a.k.a. Russia really gets back to its roots as the population takes up killing returning soldiers using biblical methods. https://www.newsweek.com/wagner-mercenaries-attacked-after-return-russia-1818231
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Turbulent Waters: How the Black Sea Became a Hot Spot in the War https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/world/europe/black-sea-russia-ukraine.html?smid=tw-share
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These will continue until the mind-boggling scale of returnee crimes against Russian civilians, especially women, will force the regime to forbid publication.
Probably next week.
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Mykhaïlo Golub: Yet another Wagner story
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https://n.respublicae.eu/TimothyDSnyder/status/1688675743998660613?s=20
Not a bad deal...
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toomas ilves, ex-verif: People who have said not a word about Russian war crimes, rapes, torture, castrations, kidnapping of Ukrainian children, DEMAND in all caps cancellation of the legalization of gay marriage by the Estonian parliament.
Gay marriages are illegal in Russia, and war crimes legal too.
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History of CEE. The order may vary, however.
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Wojtek44: #OTD in 1747 the Załuski Library opened to the public in Warsaw, Poland. Its initial collection of 200K volumes grew to 400K by 1794, which made it the biggest public library in 18th-c. Europe. It was first looted by Russians and later burned by Germans.📽️ https://youtube.com/watch?v=gX2lULi15Yw
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People who have said not a word about Russian war crimes, rapes, torture, castrations, kidnapping of Ukrainian children, DEMAND in all caps cancellation of the legalization of gay marriage by the Estonian parliament.
Gay marriages are illegal in Russia, and war crimes legal too.
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Lєta 🇺🇦 enneaegne artikulatsioon: Lausa nõuavad
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Anyone still using Yandex???
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Madi Kapparov: The FSB will gain 24/7 access to Yandex's ride-hailing service data starting from September 1. Customer data is centrally stored in Russia for the international markets including Israel, Norway, Finland, Kazakhstan, Georgia, and Armenia: https://meduza.io/feature/2023/08/08/sovsem-skoro-fsb-poluchit-kruglosutochnyy-dostup-k-dannym-servisa-yandeksa-po-zakazu-taksi-kak-vyyasnila-meduza-v-tom-chisle-k-poezdkam-za-predelami-rossii
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Huomio Suomi!
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toomas ilves, ex-verif: Anyone still using Yandex???
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1688850811218960385
This is rather sick. But glad Russia now agrees that the crimes of the Soviet Union are Russian, not anyone else's.
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Stardust Collector: Look at this Russia-produced clip where Russia with a matreshka breaks the emblem of Ukraine and the USSR emblem appears.
Recently, Ukraine replaced the USSR swastikas for a trizub at the memorial of Motherland.
Think about this clip next time you see a matreshka, not an…
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Suurim oht eestlase autole on Venemaa.
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ebamugavusvalitsus 𝕏 🇪🇪 🇺🇦: et eestlane ohtu nii tõsiselt suhtuks, et ta ka mingid kaitsemeetmed kasutusele võtaks, tuleb talle selgeks teha, et see oht kahjustab kõige rohkem ta autot
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The Finno-Ugric Liiv minority in Latvia visited by President @edgarsrinkevics.
(Unfortunately Twitter translates Liiv (libiešu) as the "Libyan" language.
cc: @X
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Valsts prezidenta kanceleja: Valsts prezidents @edgarsrinkevics Mazirbē: "Latvijas valsts pienākums ir nosargāt lībiešu valodu un kultūras mantojumu!"
🔗https://www.president.lv/lv/jaunums/valsts-prezidents-mazirbe-latvijas-valsts-pienakums-ir-nosargat-libiesu-valodu-un-kulturas-mantojumu
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They know full well, they only say (and say) it to rouse and inflame their base and the so-called "Freedom Caucus"
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The New Republic: Claims of free speech will not protect Trump from being convicted for conspiracy. Someone ought to tell his lawyers. https://trib.al/Oz0cNLF
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1687832997129502720
On NATO's shared burdens, Europe is finally starting to pull its weight https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4130966-on-natos-shared-burdens-europe-is-finally-starting-to-pull-its-weight/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1687539228454879246
.@edwardlucas, spot-on and brilliant as usual:
https://cepa.org/article/heart-of-darkness-russias-african-empire/
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Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Toomas Hendrik Ilves, (formerly v
From Estonia. Where Digital is Native. And come in at #2 in the world in internet freedom.
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