An extremely dangerous speech that will chill anyone who cares about Georgia 🇬🇪 to the bone. There will be plenty of commentary but no summary can convey the full-on conspiracy-minded paranoia. Bidzina Ivanishvili seems to believe this stuff. Read in full civil.ge/archives/602348

I don’t fully get why Western media isn’t more interested in #TbilisiProtests when it’s an incredible opportunity to observe on live TV an existential trial of a nation and the molding of a democratic society. Doesn’t have to be clashes for a great story.
#NoToRussianLaw #Georgia

What a lovely day for a bit of leafletting!!

Making my sure we get the message out to #FixTheMet with Rob Blackie 🔶 in Hackney again tonight!!

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Six years ago I warned of the GPS disruption that's now taking place in the Baltic Sea.

It was obvious that something like this was going to happen.

“Brest is a rainy industrial port…that is home to the French navy and its submarine nuclear deterrent. It has also witnessed a remarkable number of weddings in recent years between female Chinese students and the seamen who work at its naval bases” ft.com/content/6c115d…

Lithuanians are strongly influenced by the example of Israel — a small country that has survived in a hostile neighborhood by dint of innovation and determination, bloomberg.com/opinion/featur… via Bloomberg Opinion

Not the south of France but a sunny day in Pimlico. Many thanks to (some of) today’s doorknockers

Belarusian cyber partisans hacked the Belarus KGB database & shared thousands of informant tips ('donos') over the last 9 years. People reported on their relatives & neighbors, many tips came from Russians. That's a disturbing reading, reminiscent of Stalin or Third Reich times.

The great Elisabeth Braw's in depth look at Nordstream 2 and how it killed globalization.

Has it had any effect of Germany's desire always to accommodate Russia?

foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/29/glo…

An important thread in Finnish by Laura Halminen on various forms of violent grayzone warfare by Russia.

Estonians have been warning people for years, as have Czechs and others.

Germany, Finland OTOH have dismissed these incidents even when proven to be true.

Is there going to by…

Okay, this is getting serious. #Tartu

This stories of spies and murderers is, even by Russian standards, totally wild. Moscow's behaviour in the West is so brazen and obscene it's astonishing we do very little to stop it. theins.press/en/politics/27…

First there were 'The Americans', now there are 'The Czechs': Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe theins.press/en/politics/27…

In the past few days alone, we've had

- Wagner-linked arson in the UK
- Murder and assassination in the Czech Republic
- Potentially catastrophic GPS jamming in the Baltics

Russia is quite deliberately waging war on the West.

A great, depressing story about the AFD, agents of Russia and China including the MEP who needs the Russian MFA to write his speeches' talking points.

The combined economies of the EU, UK, US and Canada dwarf Russia's economy. The only reason there are any shortages of what is needed for Ukraine and for ensuring the protection of our own citizens is lack of political Will. More leaders need to lead as Kaja Kallas leads.

Today at Gunnersbury Cemetery in London, we paid homage to the 22,000 victims of the Katyn Massacre, brutally executed by Soviet authorities in 1940. This memorial underscores our commitment to combatting disinformation and ensuring the true history is remembered.

Enough 'warning' already. Convene NAC under Article four of the North Atlantic Treaty. No that's not Article five, but Western allies fear even Article four.

Because then there would have to be a decision on what to do, mein Gott in Himmel!

Edward Lucas

FT: Baltic ministers have warned that GPS jamming blamed on Russia [BY Russia, come on FT] risks causing an air disaster after the interference with navigation signals forced two Finnish flights to turn around mid-journey.

ft.com/content/37776b…

Why Ramzan Kadyrov’s demise could plunge Putin into a new war
The talk of Chechnya's Kadyrov being seriously ill seems a lot more solid than the wishful thinking about Putin. My take for The Times and The Sunday Times on what this may mean
thetimes.co.uk/article/why-ra…