27th January 2023: Tweets

Olena Halushka

@OlenaHalushka

russian #rosatom is committing large-scale nuclear terrorism at the Zaporizhzhia power plant. If anything goes wrong there, Orban and Hungarians might also feel that themselves. Radiation has no borders: one can’t block it using his beloved veto rights

english.nv.ua Hungary to block sanctions against Russia’s nuclear power industry, PM Orbán says Hungary will veto the European Union’s sanctions against the Russian nuclear industry, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an
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Michael MacKay

@mhmck

Putin puppet Orbán called Ukraine a “no man’s land” and compared it to Afghanistan. It is intolerable that Hungary – a firm ally of the Russian terrorist state – remains in NATO and the EU.

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Bill Browder

@Billbrowder

BREAKING: US Treasury Impose Global Magnitsky Sanctions on Paraguay’s Former President and Current Vice President for Corruption. Good to see Magnitsky being used all over the world to punish kleptocrats and human rights abusers

home.treasury.gov Treasury Sanctions Paraguay’s Former President and Current Vice President for Corruption WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Horacio Manuel Cartes

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Bill Browder

@Billbrowder

Hungary’s Victor Orban will veto EU sanctions on Russian on nuclear energy. He used to say these things privately (he was behind the veto on a Magnitsky Act for many years), but now he shamelessly says these things publicly

reuters.com Hungary will veto EU sanctions on Russian on nuclear energy – PM Orban Hungary will veto any European Union sanctions against Russia affecting nuclear energy, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told state radio
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Garry Kasparov Retweeted

LibMod – Zentrum Liberale Moderne

@LiberaleModerne

An evening with Garry Kasparov and guests. Three Essentials for the West: – Complete withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine. – Those responsible for war crimes must be held accountable – Use of frozen Russian assets for reconstruction in Ukraine

@fuecks

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Garry Kasparov Retweeted

Joshua Malina

@JoshMalina

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The Moscow Times

@MoscowTimes

As tit-for-tat expulsions between Russia and the Baltic states continue, Moscow gave the Latvian ambassador two weeks to leave the country on Friday, accusing her of “total Russophobia.”

themoscowtimes.com Moscow Gives Latvian Ambassador Two Weeks to Leave Russia Moscow said on Friday that Latvia’s ambassador had been given two weeks to leave Russia, accusing the Baltic state and EU member of
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Novaya Gazeta Europe

@novayagazeta_en

The Hungarian ambassador will be summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine for a frank conversation, while other response measures might be implemented, Nikolenko noted.

novayagazeta.eu Ukraine summons Hungary’s ambassador after Orbán compares it to Afghanistan, calls ‘no man’s land’ Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry has summoned István Íjgyártó, Hungary’s ambassador to the country, after Viktor Orbán, the country’s PM,
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Novaya Gazeta Europe

@novayagazeta_en

The Kremlin is likely preparing to conduct a decisive strategic action — most likely in Luhansk Oblast — in the next six months intended to regain the initiative and end Ukraine’s current string of operational successes, the ISW says.

novayagazeta.eu

ISW: Putin prepares new major offensive, hopes to regain initiative

Vladimir Putin is preparing hopes to regain the initiative in the Ukraine War and prepares a new offensive that may begin as early as February or March 2023, the US based Institute for the Study of…

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Ben Hodges

@general_ben

ICC is on the case re these deportation crimes.

@humanrights1st

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Timothy Phillips

@TSJPhillips

Jan 26

Investigators have established that Russia, contravening the Geneva Convention, moved at least 14 orphans under 5 from Kherson to a children’s home in Crimea notorious for terrible care standards. The children are now up for adoption. Article in Russian: https://verstka.media/rossijskie-vlasti-vyvezli-ne-menee-14-sirot-iz-hersona/

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Jason Jay Smart

@officejjsmart

Russia  has bombed a number of sports facilities in Ukraine  and just yesterday a well known Ukrainian athlete was killed outside of Bakhmut. Russia must not be allowed in any international competitions.

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Jason Jay Smart

@officejjsmart

Russian athletes  must be banned from participating in the Olympics. #olympicgames #OlympicQualifiers

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The Telegraph

@Telegraph

Yevgeny Prigozhin is ‘proud’ to have founded the murderous Wagner Group but, when we linked him to them, Ipso entertained his complaint…

telegraph.co.uk Putin’s warlord used British lawyers to try to silence me – and the press watchdog indulged him Yevgeny Prigozhin is ‘proud’ to have founded the murderous Wagner Group but, when we linked him to them, Ipso entertained his
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i newspaper

@theipaper

War strategies are supposed to revolve around defeating the enemy. But Russian military leaders now have an additional concern on the battlefields: preventing their own forces from fighting each other 

@robhastings

explores the infamous Wagner Group

inews.co.uk

Wagner mercenaries run wild in Ukraine, while their leader battles rivals for Putin’s approval

Mercenaries and regular soldiers are having to be kept apart to avoid more firefights, while Western intelligence analysts are frustrated at being unable to identify the militia’s strategic leaders

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Meduza in English

@meduza_en

After a human rights commission visited Alexey Navalny and pointed out that his cell was too dark, the penal colony’s administration “improved” it by installing several unbearably bright LED lights. As Navalny’s torture continues, he now fears going blind.

meduza.io

‘Thanks a lot, guys’: After human rights commission visit, Navalny’s prison installs blinding…

The imprisoned politician Alexey Navalny is coping with the prison authorities’ diabolical inventiveness in making his life intolerable.

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Michael MacKay

@mhmck

Jan 26

Russians have the means to save themselves that are entirely within their control: – get out of Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova – return Ukrainian hostages – make reparation payments to Ukraine – hand over terrorist leaders, starting with Putin, to war crimes tribunals – demilitarize

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Andrew Chakhoyan 

@ChakhoyanAndrew

Jan 26

Brief history of escalation  2008: russia threatens Georgia, the world’s response is muted. Russia escalates  2014: russia invades Crimea, gets a slap on the wrist; invades Donbas, downs #MH17  2015: Nord Stream 2 is green-lighted. Russia exports corruption 1/4

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The Moscow Times

@MoscowTimes

“The shutdown of the organization is the final nail in the coffin in the destruction of the human rights movement in Russia.”

themoscowtimes.com ‘Final Nail in the Coffin’: Activists Lament Moscow Helsinki Group Closure Russian and international human rights activists on Thursday condemned the dissolution of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG),