Thank you Arlington County, Arlington PD Recruit and Arlington Fire for a collecting and donating so much needed equipment for 🇺🇦 firefighters' who fight 🔥in the aftermath of 🏘️🏥shellings and airstrikes and save people from destroyed buildings. #StopRussianAgression #SupportUkraine

Russian Ministry of Justice closes Carnegie Russia Eurasia as well as local branches of Adenauer-Stiftung, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung & other German foundations. Expected but still regrettable interfax.ru/amp/833995

R.I.P. the Moscow Carnegie Center. A small loss among numerous losses recently, but back 20 years ago it was one of the liveliest, intellectually, centers in Moscow.

Add on 2: also as huge fan of Timur Kuran work on preference falsification I also look at all surveys conducted in Russia today with skepticism. Plus read this work blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/202… by #maxschaub & #philippchapkovski which suggests support is lower but still VERY HIGH

Oleg Orlov, Head of banned by the Kremlin Центр Мемориал, detained in Moscow during a one-man vigil at the Red Square. This act &the liquidation of the Center show the Kremlin's not even playing democracy anymore & is no more hiding its complete return to totalitarian approaches.

Twice have the Russian authorities tried to kill my husband for advocating for sanctions against thieves and murderers, and now they want to throw him in prison for calling their bloody war a WAR. I demand my husband’s immediate release!

Владимира Кара-Мурзу арестовали на 15 суток, обвинив в неповиновении полиции. Из протокола: «Гр-н Кара-Мурза Владимир Владимирович при виде сотрудников полиции повел себя неадекватно, изменив траекторию движения, ускорил шаг и на требование остановиться попытался скрыться».

#Kharkhiv Fire & Rescue squad received Straz, Iveco, & Volvo🚒that United Help Ukraine 🇺🇦 purchased in #Poland by Мінрегіон України request. #Kharkiv is under frequent #Russia air strikes & we hope these trucks will help #SaveLives 🇺🇦 Continue to #SupportUkraine here: unitedhelpukraine.org/donate

As long as the war in the Ukraine is still ongoing, we need your support with humanitarian, military and economically! Keep helping, it’s never enough! Thank you 🙏

🤨 Hey Hollywood, how about donating your private jets to airlift supplies to #Ukraine United Help Ukraine 🇺🇦 🛩 + 💸 = lives saved

"Before the invasion, Bucha was well known in Kyiv as a place to get away, to drop kids off at the summer camp for a couple of weeks," writes Simon Shuster (Simon Shuster). "Now Bucha is a byword for war crimes, like Srebrenica or My Lai" ti.me/3O7P8gN

Join our team! USRF is #hiring a Program Officer and Program Assistant. Further information and application instructions here: usrf.us/careers/

This morning, I met with Allies and partners to discuss our support for Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression. We are committed to continuing our assistance and to imposing severe economic costs on Russia — and we reaffirmed our solidarity with the Ukrainian people.

After several weeks on battleground he is back ❤️‍🔥 At last I stopped looking in telephone every 5 minutes checking if his connection resumed and he’s received a message. Praying for all those whose beloved are at the frontline 🙏🙏🙏

“The prisoner’s worst nightmare is the thought of being forgotten,” — Kremlin critic & political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza quotes Irwin Cotler in his courageous op-ed for The Washington Post. The world will never forget until all political prisoners are free. 🔗wapo.st/3MAgPgn.

#DemocracyIs #нетвойне #NoWar #KetteringFoundation Day of Democracy 15 September 2022

“Tyrants can only rule amid fear and ignorance. But the night cannot last forever.” Hryhoriy Skovoroda (whose museum in Kharkiv was destroyed by a Russian missile)

USRF Announces $135 Million TUSRIF Grant to Support Ukraine and Moldova. Read it here ↓ usrf.us/news/usrf-anno…

Statement from USRF Board Chair Amb. John R. Beyrle on the Death of Alexei Navalny. Read it here: usrf.us/news/statement…