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Dr. Planetary Scientist. Baltic Space Entrepreneur. Occasional asteroid miner. Detangler of post-1991 disorder. Quantum Progress.

Riga, Latvia

Joined April 2008

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Amara Graps

3 months

Dear Twitter/X friends: I have my own crowdfunding campaign to do the heavy lifting of scanning my 219 'The Baltic Independent' weekly newsletters, 1991-1995. These will be the 1st digital archive of these valuable newsletters. Spread the word @edwardlucas

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Help me make the 1st Digital Archive of 1991-1995 Baltic Independent weekly news

The years 1991-1995 were the critical years, in which the three Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania implemented renewed democratic processes for their sovereign countries, after losing...

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I think that this is the first time a physics demo had me laughing in tears.

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This model visualizes the effects of gravity on a car on different planets of our solar system [video: ]

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@culturaltutor There are layers of education needed, regarding Muskovy's cultural appropriation of its neighbors over the centuries. Appreciate the thread, but please acknowledge the ethnic roots of this artist. Ukrainians are working very hard to recover all that Muscovy has looted from them.

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@NikaMelkozerova @AgnesCallamard @amnesty And Latvia's Foreign Minister.

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Edgars Rinkēvičs

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Completely wrong, @amnesty , it is not Ukrainian forces that put civilians in the harm’s way, it is #Russia that started unprovoked aggression against #Ukraine and is routinely killing thousands of innocent Ukrainians, let’s investigate acts of Russian genocide against Ukrainians

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Can you believe? My Latvian grandparents were closet historians, like me. They saved *everything* from their life in the Displaced Persons (DP) camps: 1946-1951. This is their 'DP box'.

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@KevinRothrock I counted Five Russian Embassies that retweeted that Czech post. One of the Retweets is the Russian Embassy in Latvia. Which, when it looks out of its window, now, sees more art:

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Hal Weaver 🇺🇸 ❤️ 🇱🇻 🌻🇺🇦

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New protest art seen across from the russian embassy in #Riga #Latvia along the newly renamed “Ukrainian Independence Street”. #StandWithUkraine #StopRussia #GloryToUkraine

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@FaragoTimea @IAPonomarenko @BryanVicBC Remember MH17? RU's medusa-of-lies generated 19 different false narratives for MH17. See: Aspen Ideas Festival session : The Fog of War" in this section by @christogrozev starts at ~9:00. Entire session (45min) is valuable.

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The Fog of War: How Do You Know What to Believe | Aspen Ideas

Propaganda and disinformation go back thousands of years. But never have the tools been as effective when it comes to this vital weapon of war. From deep fakes to cheap fakes, platform bans to...

www.aspenideas.org

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@nata_druhak For those who doubt, every Baltic person recognizes the USSR playbook. Jump to page 28, for example for some description of those Estonian mass deportations (snapshot). Scroll through the book to find more (EE/LV/LT).

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@JayinKyiv russia was running influence operations in the Baltics throughout the 1990s too. In 🇱🇻Latvia, the 2-yr 'negotiations' of the Red Army withdrawal was about fixing 5th column of 700K russian Occupiers and 100K Red army so-called pensioners in the country.

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@JensWalter12 @kaya_bala3 Essentially: The 3 yr 'negotiations' was an intelligence operation to fix in Latvia ~100K red army personnel 'pensioners' and 700K Occupants in Latvia for influence operations. It didn't have much to do with Skrunda or care about pensioners (who were 40-50 years old).

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@MDekhtyaruk @JoyceCarolOates I think I've read at least eight of Joyce Carol Oates' novels. I will now never read another.

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8 months

How many Ukrainian lives were lost while US Congress got hijacked by pro-Kremlin mouthpieces these last months? And US reputation loss? Now the Eastern part of Europe understands that depending on the US carries a significant security risk for their own countries' democracies.

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@wartranslated The continuous disconnect is unreal. Here is another example.

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2 years

They are insane. This one even have has Space, Satellites and Genghis Khan

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Julia Davis

@JuliaDavisNews

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Russian state TV claims that Russia has been at war with the U.S. for 80 years. Propagandists compare America to a "medieval leper" that is trying to infect the rest of the world and suggest "exterminating Western parasites with chemicals or ice axes."

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@phinp @TomMostlyZen Yes. If the Russians are not allowed to retreat, from the commanders' instructions, and the Russians do not surrender, then the Ukrainians must kill them. And so they did. "...just because you don't want to upset one person on the day of his speech" Grozev's transcript said.

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@pjasinski brought tears to my eyes. So much respect to both teams.

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On Monday, my dad turns 93. He has lived 74y in the USA. My Latvian-fluent (1st in our family, much better than me) teenager (Vija) spoke to her grandfather in Latvian during our month-long visit. She told me this of his language skills:

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My 92yo dad and I. Greetings from the other side of the world.

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Today my daughter received her 2nd shot! One of the first 12 year olds in Latvia to complete her covid vaccination. What a long pandemic road we've travelled thes past 15 mos. I'm also happy to see so many teens (2/3 of the clients) at the BKUS vaccination center this morning.

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@YevYevhenii If you know russia, they are both true. Ceasefire will be used to build military resources to continue brutal aggressions against Ukraine, while upping their current hybrid war against their next-near-neighbors to a new level.

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@OlgaNYC1211 @mfa_russia @mod_russia @MFA_China @Dpol_un @Amb_Ulyanov @RusEmbUSA @RussianEmbassy @EmbassyofRussia @zlj517 @RusEmbIndia @RussiaUN @TwitterSupport Reported.

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@SamRamani2 Latvia as well some days ago.

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Edgars Rinkēvičs

@edgarsrinkevics

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#Latvia expells three Russian Embassy employees in connection with activities that are contrary to their diplomatic status and taking into account ongoing Russian aggression in #Ukraine . The decision has been coordinated with #Lithuania and #Estonia

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small clip with a powerful punch. Bravo!

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DW Europe

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🎥Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia have announced they're boycotting an OSCE meeting this week due to the participation of Russia’s foreign minister. DW's @AlexandravonNah asked 🇱🇹's Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis what his message to countries in favour of the meeting is:

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@olex_scherba That's something to see. He really wanted to surrender. Ukraine drone flyer was helping him. And he made it.

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It's the first medal for Latvia in this competition. Latvia is also the smallest country in the 100 year history of the IIHF competition to win a medal.

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List of IIHF World Championship medalists - Wikipedia

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@LV_Finland

Latvia in Finland

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Congratulations on the historic bronze medal🥉for Team Latvia 🇱🇻at the 2023 IIHF World Championship! Thank you to the Latvian🇱🇻 Ice Hockey Team, fans and supporters in Finland 🇫🇮!

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The Latvian record of the March 25, 1949 Deportations is here: See whole families, their ages, **where they lived**. Select the "marts 25 1949" drop-down menu.

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Veiko Spolitis

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#NeverForget Today we are remembering seventy five years since Soviets illegally #deported over 42 000 Latvians from their homes to #Siberia . Not much has changed, as deportations r taking place today during the illegal #RussianUkrainewar . via @LSM_eng

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1994. A story of the Red Army so-called 'Pensioners' in 🇱🇻Latvia and the decolonization-that-didn't-happen of the Occupants. 🧵⬇️

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@KuldkeppMart And if folks want to understand how families in the Baltic countries in the 1940s had brother fighting brother, the USSR, Nazi, and then USSR (3rd) occupations had conscriptions. Here's how folks can educate themselves on USSR-Baltic history:

The World needs an Update of their USSR History

If you attempt to explain RU's genocide on the Ukrainian civilization with words about NATO or nazis, there will be 100+ million CEE citizens who will poke holes in your argument in 5 seconds, so...

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@MaxRTucker @EliotHiggins @AricToler The rest of the world needs an update in their USSR history. Cruelty like this is well-known to generations of Baltic, Poles, others. Thank you Google for scanning these investigations. See below.

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Nothing brings out the tankies more than all three Baltic Countries together commemorating the Soviet Mass Deportations in March 25, 1949. The Estonian Foreign Ministry's tankie commenter list is insane.

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@EdgeAnthony @MarianneMourik @davetroy @Claire_Myfanwy @TWMCLtd The Kremlin plan is the Elimination of Ukraine in its entirety. Looting, Deportations, Mutilations, Executions, Education, Cultural artifacts, Ecocide, Appropriation of what they can use to propagandize to say it's theirs. For a snapshot, See @juliadavisnews

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@wartranslated Latvia doesn't have many, but we donated all we had (2 I think?)

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@AlexKokcharov If you look at the 1994 news, Lukashenko's intentions were clear within weeks of his election.

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@BBCSteveR @mattgodtv @AntonChicherov @BBCWillVernon Yes. And the first thing Lukashenko did, was keep the Red Army in Belarus, instead of withdrawing it, as had been agreed by the previous administration. Baltic Independent, August 12, 1994:

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🗑️🇷🇺Pure envy towards a 4000 year old culture (🇱🇻). "Where do Latvians get their language from? They had nothing but sprat" Propaganda is hysterical that Russians who have lived for many years in Latvia are forced to learn a “meaningless language”

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Anri Tina

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"Откуда у латышей язык? У них кроме шпрот ничего и не было" Пропагандон истерит,что русских проживших много лет в Латвии заставляют учить "бессмысленный язык"

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@olgatokariuk @ZelenskaUA I like these words:

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Kareem Rifai 🌐

2 years

If you had a stronger reaction to the Zelensky photoshoot than to the images of people tied up and executed in Bucha please consider therapy, sincerely.

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@reshetz For the rest of the world who might be shocked: Your irregular reminder that the world is experiencing another round of what it already experienced multiple times w/ USSR-Russia during the last 100 years. Time to stop it once-and-for-all, don't you think?

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spaceviolins

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@olimanagraphics @DarthPutinKGB Soviet-Russification Occupation Playbook 1) Bring in tanks and army 2) Fake 'invitation' 3) Torture, Execute, Deport Majority Population 4) Bring in thousands / millions of ruzzians to live in empty homes 5) Fake elections 6) Nationalize country industries: ...

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@TreasChest Yes, the Ukrainian U.N. representative has raised this exact point multiple times.

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Sergiy Kyslytsya 🇺🇦

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On the night of invasion 23/24 February 2022 in UNSC I called on nebenzia to “Pass UNSC responsibilities on to a legitimate member of Security Council”. 10 months thereafter it’s long overdue for the members to address Russia’s incompatibility with Charter

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All of the world's asteroid mining companies @ the #ASIME2018 Grant Bonin Deep Space Industries @GoDeepSpace Chris Lewicki Planetary Resources @PlanetaryRsrcs Joel Sercel TransAstra @JoelSercel JL Galache Aten Engineering @JLGalache Øystein Borgersen Sol Sys Mining

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@IlvesToomas @jkjourno As a Rīga resident (10 yrs), this is my largest frustration with the (rare) decent Russians I know:

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@DarthPutinKGB Part of 1953 Testimony to US Congress, Kersten Committee, from last surviving member of free Latvia's government, Alfreds Berzins, Latvian Minister of Public Affairs 1934-1940. He lost his wife and children to the USSR June 13-15, 1941 deportations, while he was in a Nazi prison.

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@BadBalticTakes There is an interactive map of the names and ages tied to their address of those who were deported from Latvia. Go to the drop down menu on the left and choose 1941. gada 14. jūnijs, then move around on the map with the zoom feature for addresses. Riga:

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My 🇱🇻dad was only 10yo when this happened, but now at 93 yo, and after living in the 🇺🇸 for 70years, this June 14th date is one that my father will never forget. It was also the main driver for Graps family to leave 🇱🇻in 1944.

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Baiba Braže

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🕯️On 14 June 1941 the Soviet occupation regime deported tens of thousands of innocent 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 people, including children and the elderly, to Siberia to perish. #NeverForget . We can't change the past, but must unite to help 🇺🇦 defeat the forces of evil. 📷 @okupacijas_muz

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A wunderkid. 17yo, already working for TV3 as a weather reporter for last 2y. Great interview of the youngest publicly known meteorologist in Latvia, Martina Bergštein.

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Martins Bergšteins

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📻📽 Pilna intervija pieejama šeit: Paldies @tomsons un @Krustpunkta !

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@EerikNKross @kajakallas I hope the Uzvaras Park Soviet monument take-down will be live-streamed too.

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Soviet monument in Rīga will be taken down whole

The Soviet 'Victory' monument in Uzvaras park is unlikely to be demolished in stages, but toppled as a whole, representatives of Rīga City Council said at a briefing on August 4.

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@BadBalticTakes @ilze_sedlina Yes. >90% Latvian population in 1940, 53% Latvian population in 1982.

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Amara Graps

2 years

@P_Kallioniemi @GlasnostGone It was a 'standard' Russification, throughout Soviet Occupied territories. Here is the Latvian version: 90+% Latvians in 1940 to 53% Latvians in 1982.

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@na_intel @Lyla_lilas Where is Steven Seagal?

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@maria_drutska And later 🤡Lavrov ran with a 2x too long monologue of accusations against country-after-country of every blah-blah-blah violation ... Poor translator. She had to track and keep up with his string-of-lies.

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@olex_scherba There'a queue of families of his victims. The MH 17 prosecutors in the Hague are also asking this Fall for a life sentence for Girkin's part in shooting down the airliner.

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My 92yo dad and I. Greetings from the other side of the world.

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@adnashmyash Tucker Carlson is one of Kremlin's favorite mouthpieces for those who haven't been tracking russian trash-TV in the past few years.

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@KuldkeppMart ruzzian operation in motion:

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Amara Graps

1 year

@petite_michelle In this ruzzian operation, the terrorists are treating the Baltic region as a whole: borders, propaganda, international opinion about the Baltics because we are (with Poland) the strongest supporters of Ukraine.

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@laurieallee It's amazing (in a poor way), isn't it? I tend to use the words: 'is the most studied virus and disease in human history' and then give links to the 360K+ ever growing medical article database: Even -that- doesn't make an impression...

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@BadBalticTakes I wrote up an educational thread to help people recognize 🗑️🇷🇺's Blueprint of russification / occupations / genocides over the centuries. Multistep. Meticulous. Brutal. Ukraine was, and is, Muscovy's practice. I used 1994, 1998 🇱🇻 to show steps.

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Amara Graps

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Dear Rand and @scharap , You missed 2/3 of the Russian Blueprint in your analysis in this Report for 🇱🇻Latvia, so why should anyone trust your analysis for other countries? @edwardlucas Missing: Karaganov's: "Strategy for Russia", a refreshed USSR strategy for post-1991

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The Population of #Dnipro is about 1 Million. Imagine hitting the center of Vilnius or Riga with 11 cruise missiles and 9 killer drones.

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Tim White

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3/3 Here's a video from the scene of #Russia 's attack in the centre of #Dnipro . Even since starting this mini thread, I've learned the number injured has risen to 25. 11 cruise missiles were fired on this region this morning as well as 9 killer drones. #RussiaIsATerroristState

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AWESOME. Look at her soldering work. She is bypassing long purchase queues for drones by building them herself. This excellent "Drone in Every House" program by the Ukrainians needs to be adopted by all neighboring countries of 🗑️🇷🇺 too.

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Ukrainian volunteer volunteer demonstrates assembly of FPV drones at home.

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@alinavictoriaw @BSBonner Moldova should get AA. It's a small country with a population the size of Lithuania, which has so far taken in Ukraine refugees --> at least 5% of their population. And Moldova is not a NATO country.

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Westerners may not yet grasp the resolve of the East Flank countries. They/We've had enough of Ukraine's experiences to decide NOT to kick the can down the road to the next generation.

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No secret to any of us in Latvia. She was agitating against Latvian Re-Independence way-back-when, and since then.

@michaeldweiss

Michael Weiss

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Exclusive: Tatjana Zdanoka, a Latvian member of the European Parliament, has been an agent of Russian intelligence for at least twenty years, @the_ins_ru can reveal, based on emails we obtained between Zdanoka and two of her FSB handlers.

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Dear Rand and @scharap , You missed 2/3 of the Russian Blueprint in your analysis in this Report for 🇱🇻Latvia, so why should anyone trust your analysis for other countries? @edwardlucas Missing: Karaganov's: "Strategy for Russia", a refreshed USSR strategy for post-1991

@Rail_splitter1

Railsplitter Fella 🇺🇦 🇪🇺

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Valdai agent @scharap has a new piece of Kremlin propaganda masquerading as a “national security report” from Rand. Goal is to firmly place “fear of escalation” in the consciousness of the U.S. establishment and that of its allies.

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@kajakallas @Olympics You can be sure that Telegram ruzzian channels will be instructing ru athletes how to get around the rules. Reminder: for the 1948 Summer Olympics, Germany and Japan were not invited.

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Daughter dutifully waiting the long minutes after her first covid vaccine shot to see if there would be any reaction at the BKUS Children's Hospital. She might be one the first 12 year olds in Latvia getting their shot.

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September 2-8, 1994. The formal ending (Red Army Occupation) of USSR 50 year Occupation in the Baltics, even though Russia refused to give any declaration or document for this political event. Interviews with some soldiers even said 'they'll be back'.

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@MicheleBerdy The whole piece from the side:

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Ukraine’s🇺🇦 anthem at the Latvian National Song & Dance celebration, where 30k participants and 100s thousands spectators gather every five years. Impressive and very moving. Let it give strength to #Ukraine in the Liberation War. #StandWithUkraine

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I read this book in one sitting yesterday and have a lot to say .. (it's excellent). However, it's late, so I'll leave you tonight with my favorite line: 'After the war Churchill said to Roosevelt: "We didn’t kill the right pig. We needed to kill the Red pig"' (pg 81)

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@Harri_Est @kajakallas The Soviet armies were still inside of the Baltic countries until 1994. It was a massive effort to negotiate their departure with their relics and working equipment. Treaties, negotiations, ...Don't forget the % of implanted Soviet-era citizens during 50+ years who voted.

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@BadBalticTakes @markomihkelson The hundreds-year-old killing machine : Katyn shows the same methods as used in Ukraine. See the 1953 eyewitness interviews in the Kersten Committee reports with those persons who exhumed the Katyn graves in 1940-1

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Amara Graps

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@yarotrof From the medical team which exhumed the Katyn graves: to Download Kersten Committee US Congress doc: left button: Read Ebook, Download PDF Search on 'Katyn' and you'll find 30 more pages of EyeWitness reports in the 1953 US Congressional hearings

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@stephenwertheim History will not be kind to these so-called "foreign policy experts". from:

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@Brit_in_Moldova @DmytroKuleba c) is already used in Latvia. "A large number of foreigners who were refused entry to Latvia openly expressed their support for Russia's military aggression against Ukraine and its people, using typical Kremlin war propaganda messages," it added.

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@expatua @michaeldweiss There was also different Google report that Google Maps were going to show today's street view of devastated Ukraine towns, but they are apparently not ready yet. (source: )

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@edwardlucas We Baltic / CEE / EE people, can help the rest of the world connect the dots from the 1) Muscovy of hundreds of years ago to the 2) USSR of last century to the 3) russia of today. It's the same creature! We have the proofs.

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@BadBalticTakes @Telegraph If the investigator did their job, they would have discovered that the unvaccinated Russians in Latvia who watched Kremlin TV and absorbed antivax propaganda were those who filled the hospitals w/covid the most. Every LV citizen paid for that situation in one way or another.

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@OriginalRamayan @KyivIndependent

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The Latvian Parliament @Jekaba11 voted to adopted a statement on #Russia 's targeted military attacks against civilians and public areas in #Ukraine , recognising Russia's violence against civilians as #terrorism and Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.

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@petite_michelle In this ruzzian operation, the terrorists are treating the Baltic region as a whole: borders, propaganda, international opinion about the Baltics because we are (with Poland) the strongest supporters of Ukraine.

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In late 1953, the last surviving member of the free Latvian government Alfrēds Bērziņš gave testimony to the US Congress Kersten committee of the events on the first days in 1940 in which Latvia became occupied by the USSR. The MRP, Red Army on border, USSR's staged provocation,

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@Gerashchenko_en Latvia sends Nebenzya our greetings.

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In #Riga , #Latvia , the city authorities removed the Soviet era WW2 monument from the Uzvaras Park. #Russia will be not happy.

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@igorsushko The Latvians marketing skills are not as polished as the Estonians, but here we are:

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The Baltic Three and three of the Visegrad Four lead the charge! 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇵🇱🇸🇰🇱🇹🇨🇿

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@BadBalticTakes It's the first medal for Latvia in this competition. Latvia is also the smallest country in the 100 year history of the IIHF competition to win a medal. Small countries matter.

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List of IIHF World Championship medalists - Wikipedia

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@BadBalticTakes These cars are appearing in Latvia too. (note the plate). No, I don't know yet if Latvian police did anything.

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Auto ar Ja Russkij / Ja Russkaja parādījušies arī Latvijā.

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@phinp @TomMostlyZen Remember those video addresses in Russian by Pres. Zelenskyy last week? Zelenskyy told them to run away or surrender. Russian World wanted them slaughtered instead.

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The #sitlikeagirl concept is fantastic. Thanks to the participants, especially to the cats of Ukraine.

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з кого насправді брали референс для фотосесї Зеленської 🥰 #sitlikeagirl

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MEP member Ushakov lies to the EU Parliament, saying that Latvia expels russians for not knowing longitute signs(?) what? The woman on her right has previously lied to the Parliament, saying that russians in Latvia are tortured.

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Latvija izraida krievus par garumzīmju nezināšanu. Šādas muļķības izplata Ušakovs un Saskaņas portāls Press. Skaidrs, ka gatavojas vēlēšanām. Un vēl apmaksāta reklāma uzlikta!

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I found my box of news clippings of the Fall of the USSR from my vantage in the San Fran Bay Area. Starting from 1989, the news clippings begin with the fall of the Berlin Wall and through the USSR breakup.

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@DrEricDing Crazy synchronous. I was just sharing a leprosy paper today that links to long-covid symptom: paresthesia and MCAS:

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@DonEford What is super interesting to me is that the paresthesia caused by covid uses the kynurenine pathway. Figs from . Kynurenin is a tryptophan metabolite that promotes mast cell activation through aryl hydrocarbon receptor (*). (*)

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@BadBalticTakes Some historical perspective is useful too.

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Team Navalny today are the Medvedevs of tomorrow. Embarrassed that 10-15 years ago you though that Medvedev was a nice, progressive, liberal guy? Well, here’s a chance not to repeat the embarrassing mistake now.

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@petite_michelle @pevchikh Don't miss the ending!

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КОЛЕКТИВНА ПРОВИНА/ Collective Irresponsibility (animation)

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Important step. That horrifying video of the Ukrainian POW yesterday is a cruelty known to those who lived under the USSR. There wasn't social media, in the 1930s, 40s, 50s, but there were official investigations published and with photos. Available still

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EU needs to fight Russia's attempts to rewrite history — joint statement

The EU needs to do more to fight Russia's attempts to rewrite history and to understand how the USSR's crimes affect today's atrocities, top politicians in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and...

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@Ickynumber13 @peedutuisk Latvia was Occupied by Nazi Germany for 3 years: 1941-1944 (USSR: 1940, 1945-1990). ruzzia has used that as a propaganda against LV for decades since. Same old, same old.

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The Legionnaires. 50+ years of Soviet Russian propaganda talks about 'Latvian Nazis', it's one of their favorite topics. They are successful too, in spreading their lies, if you track their propaganda on social media. Main points: 1) Most Latvian boys didn't have a choice: ...

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1995. That's how long 🇺🇦 has been demonstrating their interest to be part of Europe.

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@Sestr1chk1na "good" russian Latynina, living and enjoying her Life in EU country Latvia, while complaining about Latvia. Here she is with her comrades, complaining about Latvia's anti-propaganda laws.

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@RitornellaNYC Don't forget that one of USSR's largest gulags was in Komi: My uncle was there too. (he survived)

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Oh wow. "perhaps new variants arose inside people similar to the man in Boston —that is, people who are immunocompromised & have long-term #COVID19 infections."

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Immunocompromised 45 year old suffered from #COVID19 for 155 days before he died. The virus was changing very quickly inside the man's body—it acquired a big cluster of >20 mutations—resembled the same ones seen in #B117 & #B1351 . (NPR audio Part 1 of 2)🧵

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@rynkrynk Of course. :-)

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@NikaMelkozerova He records these from planes and trains on these grueling travels, crossing time zones. I hope he can rest for a few days after this huge push.

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@wartranslated He's wanted in the Netherlands .. would be a prize for Ukraine to get him there before November 17.

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MH17 court ruling set for 17 Nov. as Russia reportedly detains MH17 defendant

Russia briefly detained Igor Girkin, one of the four suspects being tried for the downing of flight MH17. The Russian former spy chief was stopped en route to the frontline after expressing his...

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To help some understand what a big deal it was for the Baltic countries to join EU and NATO, from the perspective of a person with Baltic roots. Here is a photodocumentary I wrote in 2004 when I was living in Europe (Italy), about my 1990 and 1991 experiences visiting Latvia. 1/

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@porizna Ten months of archived Telegram chats, intercepted phone records, interviews with ruzzians, inside and outside of ruzzia, thoroughly, top to bottom, tell a story of this ruzzian society. With their own words: 'Ukrainians are not deserving of existence.'

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@jurgen_nauditt His full speech is full of such gems:

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A strong Europe is a self-confident Europe I Sir Richard Barrons

Sir Richard Barrons discusses Europe's role in the current war; why it is crucial for us to understand that it directly affects our interests and security, a...

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@P_Kallioniemi Russian Red Lines:

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@saintjavelin Yes, I giggled last year when I discovered the Ukrainian intelligence owl eating the bat of the Russian Spetsnaz. I didn't put that explicitly in my article though- but it was definitely a theme.

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Battle of the Owl Metaphors Recently, I was struck by a battle of Owl Metaphors, overlaid on top of real-life battles. Owls, as fierce, nocturnal predators, have wide wings, light bodies, and...

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@Gerashchenko_en @PRB_Raimond Excellent. Bravo. A large Thank You to @PRB_Raimond from Estonia's southern neighbor.

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When do History Lessons make your stomach queasy? When USSR is involved, and *especially* when you learn about USSR/Muscovy's 100s y brutal actions on Rus/Ukraine . Go here for a deep history: Prof. Roman Smal-Stocki, Deep Ukraine History w/ Russia’s Aggressions, p.911-943

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@MamedovGyunduz Ten years earlier, the Soviets used a real famine to practice their weaponization of food. Ten years later- Unbelievably ruthless and scientifically elaborate.

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@kaya_bala3 @Gerashchenko_en @NikaMelkozerova @Benyamin_Bloom @PetrMoses @chryslap @chriso_w @Igor_from_Kyiv_ This one was caused by a drought, then used against the Ukrainian people as political warfare. russia may have used this famine to 'practice' with, to carry out artifically 10 years later. From Page 34-35 of 8th Interim report of the Kersten Committee of the US Congress

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Dear Switzerland, the Baltics paid a 50 year Occupation price for one year of Neutrality. You can't sit on the fence while Russia's Genocide-As-A-Service exists.

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Swiss govt would rather get these Leopard1 tanks rotten or rusty than pass them over to Ukraine for our self-defence from russian genocide. For the evil to prevail it's enough for "nice people" to just stay aside being so proud of their neutrality Photo: RSI news via Ukrinform

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