We are younger siblings who have to listen and obey, and that's what Navalnaya wants us to be, that's what her husband wanted us to be.

When the war started in 2014, many Ukrainians who had families in Russia tried to reason with them. My family was one of them. But instead, we were met with Russian supremacism.

'We now have overwhelming evidence of vast pro-Russian influence operations throughout Europe that seek to exploit politicians, media personalities, and others—and some of these efforts have been successful.'-- Alex Finley

Wonder if the White House already told Israel not to retaliate against Iranian refineries

I can't believe there is a debate on whether 🇷🇺 oil refineries are legitimate military targets. I can't believe op-eds are getting written about this.

The Trypil Thermal Power Plant near Kyiv is completely destroyed like the one in Kharkiv.
It means there won't be heating next winter.
Kyiv is 3 mln, Kharkiv is 1.3 mln. Europe can start preparing budgets for refugees only from these cities.
Thankfully, it is not escalatorary!

Russia - still thinks that its borders don't end anywhere
France - tries to explain the benefit of strategic ambiguity
UK - still stuck in the old ways
US - in lalaland
Germany - wende-ing those zeiten

Ukraine continues the fight

Bereits 85 Prozent des Spendenziels sind erreicht! Einen ganz großen Dank an alle Spender*innen! Wenn es so weitergeht, können wir heute noch die 3000 Euro knacken! 💛💙🌻💪
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A longish explanation of how the Kremlin is tightening its control over the population. By reducing employment opportunities in the shrinking private sector via 'soft' nationalization, the Kremlin prepares to fight the war for years to come.
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Congratulations to one of our founding members, historian Una Bergmane, on being awarded the 2024 Cambridge Baltic Geopolitics Network Publication Prize

Romania has banned the entry of 116 Moldovans who were paid by Kremlin ally & runaway oligarch Ilan Shor to protest against president Maia Sandu at the European People’s Party congress last month. Chisinau previously said these protestors relied on support from far-right AUR

So how is the Kremlin planning to alleviate the dearth of labor driven by mobilization, emigration, expanding industrial needs, and decreasing attractiveness of Russia for migrant workers? 12/

Solche Rückmeldungen freuen das Historikerinnen-Herz! Wer auch Lust auf eine tour de force durch die ukrainische Geschichte hat:
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🙏Roman Herzog Institut

NEW: Russian troops are carrying out “systematic” chemical weapons attacks on Ukrainian troops across the frontline, according to multiple Ukrainian soldiers I spoke to.

My piece for The Telegraph:👇
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A kamikadze drone supposedly attacked a military unit in Rybnitsa, Transnistria yesterday. Moldovan PM Dorin Recean dismissed the event as a Russian supported psy-op aimed at spreading panic. He also praised Moldovans’ newly acquired resilience to this hybrid war tactic

The Russians are trying to destroy Kharkiv completely. Why doesn't the world react? Why does the world not listen to Ukraine? The Ukrainians have almost lost their voice, so loud they are crying out for help.

There are Patriot batteries and ammunition all over the world that could have saved Kharkiv, once a thriving city of 2 million people, but no one was willing to donate them

Russians are trying to do to Kharkiv what they did to Grozny, Aleppo, Mariupol

'Die Kasachen, die auf die Ukraine starren, haben Angst die nächsten zu sein, aber sie sinds. Im Prinzip, glaube ich, ist die Entscheidung schon gefallen', sagt Andrej Gurulew zu Kollegen im russ. Verteidigungsausschuss. Ziel: Hass gegen Kasachen schüren.

Unfassbar: Mariupol wurde von Russland in Schutt und Asche gelegt, Zehntausende Zivilisten getötet und vertrieben. Laut ARD-Monitor sind am russischen Wiederaufbau, der für die Propaganda ausgeschachtet wird, 🇩🇪 Firmen wie Knauff & WKB Systems beteiligt. tagesschau.de/investigativ/m…