Yes, the Kremlin also possibly hopes for other Europeans to criticise Macron for “too much sabre rattling” against Russia on Ukraine.

Macron is hosting Xi for a state dinner tonight.
I think 'state dinners' should be used only when the leader being honoured is democratically-elected. For someone like Xi the occasion should be called 'regime dinners'.

You don't get to represent your 'state' without elections.

Tutkimusta #venäjä :stä tarvitaan nyt jos koskaan, mutta #putin ’in hallinnon propagandatilaisuuksiin osallistuminen osoittaa harkinnan puutetta ja kyvyttömyyttä nähdä tutkijan ja tutkimuksen poliittinen rooli.

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An attack on you would be an attack on all of us, Evika Siliņa 🇱🇻🇺🇦, Kaja Kallas and Ingrida Šimonytė. Our meeting in Riga showed: The bond between Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Germany is and remains strong.

He said Xi said…

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OPSEC ist für uns alle Neuland.

'Pian Saksan ilmoituksen jälkeen myös Tšekin tasavallan hallitus syytti Venäjää kyberiskujen kohdistamisesta eri kohteisiin maassa. Hallituksen mukaan iskujen takana oli niin ikään APT28-hakkeriryhmittymä.'
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Yea sure. The same Merz who in 2022 called Ukrainian refugees who were going back and forth between Germany and Ukraine “social tourists”.

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My Atlantic Council latest on what's at stake for Georgia. The Russian-style 'foreign agents law' encapsulates the broader ambitions of the Georgian Dream party - to abandon the country's NATO and EU aspirations and cement Georgia into Moscow's orbit.
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Important discussions in Riga with Evika Siliņa 🇱🇻🇺🇦, Kaja Kallas and Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz on most pressing defense & security issues, support to Ukraine, EU agenda, and key areas, where 🇱🇹 🇱🇻 🇪🇪 🇩🇪 can scale-up cooperation.

War on European soil and daily suffering unleashed by Russia is…

“Until Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Ivanishvili, similarly to Aleksandar Vucic in Serbia, was a master in leveraging both the EU and Russia for his benefit.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine made this game harder to play, however.”

Expanding Velina’s post with two comments:
1) Macron wanting more economic and strategic independence from other world powers is a typical sign of a multipolar, fragmented world order where middle powers want to expand their clout.
2) A multipolar world is, however, not what…

In Russland passieren gerade die faschistoiden Dinge, über die wir uns in den 90ern bei Starship Troopers mit Popcorn im Kino noch ge-lust-gruselt haben.
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About the Russian nuclear exercise announcement:

MFA Finland 🇫🇮 This year’s guest of MFA Finland 🇫🇮 will be Illia Ponomarenko, one of the most internationally renowned Ukrainian war journalists. He will discuss the importance of communication for the Ukrainian war, in the era of information warfare. Read more: buff.ly/4a5vMTa