Anna Karjalainen
British Swede 🇬🇧🍠 💙🌻 Studies in Post-Soviet Eurasia, fighting dis/mis-info. Try to limit myself to Baltics and Central Asia. Uppsala Uni. Moomin mad! Also on Twitter for now.
- Must-read. 👇🏼
- Hi Everyone, I'm delighted to be able to say that @alanderminna.bsky.social first post (free for everyone) has just been released on the Substack. She discusses the reports of Russian military preparations against the Baltics and Nordics. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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- The 21-year-old son of the CIA's Deputy Director for Digital Innovation was killed in Ukraine last year after signing a Russian military contract, according to new reporting from iStories media. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
- Today is Maria Kolesnikova’s 43rd birthday. It’s her 5th behind bars in Belarus.
- Maria #Kolesnikowa|s Geburtstag findet erneut hinter Gittern statt. Ihr mutiger Einsatz für ein freies & demokratisches #Belarus macht sie zum Vorbild für viele. Wir rufen Belarus auf, humanitäre Standards ggü. Inhaftierten einzuhalten & alle politischen Gefangenen freizulassen.
- Happy Easter 🐣! Glad Påsk! 🪺 🇬🇧🇸🇪🇳🇴🇺🇦
- Less bonkers, more dangerous
- Bonkers Donald Trump blames Volodymyr Zelenskyy for starting Ukraine war - a day after dozens killed in Russian missile strikes news.sky.com/story/donald...
- Wow..
- Just returned from a fruitful trip to @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social Great minds!
- Latest re: Missing US soldiers Lithuania:- www.delfi.lv/46713439/arz...
- Missing US Soldiers, Lithuania: “An important step forward has been taken in the operation - the first rope has been attached to the sunken armored vehicle. One is not enough, two are needed, but we are no longer at a dead end," the Lithuanian Armed Forces said.” www.delfi.lv/a/120066832
- "Operācijā ir sperts svarīgs solis uz priekšu – pie nogrimušās bruņumašīnas ir piestiprināta pirmā trose. Ar vienu nepietiek, ir vajadzīgas divas, taču mēs vairs neesam strupceļā," vēsta Lietuvas bruņotie spēki. www.delfi.lv/a/120066832
- Every day, new levels of unprofessionalism, and that’s put diplomatically.
- 3 Bulgarians found guilty of espionage charges on behalf of Russia in the UK.
- Video footage showing the arrest of one of the Bulgarian spy ring members youtu.be/D20nFLQKjQ0?...
- Exactly this:-
- It would also be good if we in Europe heard support from our democratic friends in the US.
- I also share the same fears.
- I have been warning about this for months. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
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- Donald Trump pressures Romania to lift restrictions on Tate brothers ft.com/content/3f951e0b-a9…
- Consequences of troop movement are far and wide.. 🐅 🐯
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- Absolutely. Couldn’t have put it better. The shame 😔
- Yes. Absolut. Just had a text with my Mum we’re now in our 1938 moment 😔
- Sources including :- www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
- Of course a Moomin mug too! 😍🥰
- Sources include:- www.yahoo.com/news/next-ra...
- Sweden lets ship suspected of sabotage go, after investigation found severed cable was not due to sabotage, but a combination of wear and tear, among other things.
- Unfortunately I also experienced similar expressions from a taxi driver in Klaipeda about Lithuania not being a real country 🙄😤
- 💬 "Ukraine is an invented state. The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. It is an artificial state," said Romanian presidential candidate Călin Georgescu, also suggesting Ukraine be carved up between neighbors. united24media.com/latest-news/romania…
- Also where you can drop off humanitarian aid for Ukraine 🇺🇦📦
- Not good at all. 😔 And I believe even earlier unfortunately (RU re-armament/ new battles).
- Despite many people leaving X understandably (and everyone is entitled to their own opinion!), I will be staying as long as possible to fight dis- and misinformation.
