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Jul 30 • 2 tweets • 1 min read
@DrRadchenko Estonia is not a social welfare agency for solving Russia’s problems.

We have no obligations to help a country that for 31 years has threatened us and now commits genocide in Ukraine.

It’s been 31 years. We fixed our country. We owe the country that ruined ours nothing.
@DrRadchenko I should add that while we are a rather small country and small universities, we have allotted 250 places and scholarships for Ukrainians at the national university in Tartu.

Who needs it more? Russians or the Ukrainian students they are intent on killing, castrating or raping?

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Aug 2
A longer thread on Russian visas, taxes and how we Estonians are:
Ever since independence 31 years ago, the Baltic States and occasionally Poland as well have been continuously threatened by Russia, both officially as well as in the state-controlled media.

1/n
We have been threatened with invasion, with nuclear waste; our gas has been repeatedly cut — ever since 1991. Putin has said Russia will regain its “historical borders”, i.e. its borders 110 years ago, which also included Finland.

2/n
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Aug 1
Estonia is not the place to boast about cheating on your taxes. Take that into account before you move here:

Here is the ranking:
Estonia actually ties for 10th place with Ireland if you look at the full slide.
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Mar 11
It took a long time for younger East Europeans to get over the stories by grandmothers and parents of the Russians' indiscriminate killing of civilians, the deportations, looting, rapes and arrests where some were found dead with horrendous torture and others never found. 1/n
In the past 15 days, all this has come back. On video. Some 100 million East Europeans now understand the stories were not exaggerated.

It may be unfair but that is once again the dominant image of Russians. The bombing of evacuation corridors, maternity hospitals,

2/n
...the disappearances, the humiliation of citizens of a country Russians invaded.

That is the face of the Russian to those 100 million.

Not Tolstoy, not Tchaikovsky, not Ahmatova or Brodsky.

When you see a murder, you see only the murderer, not some figures from the past. 3/n
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Jan 16
We are amidst the greatest security crisis in Europe since the Cuban Missile crisis in 1962. Of I/Os, the UN and CoE have been utterly irrelevant, a feeble attempt was made with the OSCE, and the EU's main contribution has been to whine about being ignored by Russia, US & NATO.
In the future we need a rethink of which legacy I/Os are fit for purpose. The UN for development assistance and refugees, fine. Security? Hardly, especially with an octagenarian SC legacy P5. CoE long ago lost any legitimacy as a normative human rights org by re-instating Russia.
I remain hopeful for the EU if it learns from its irrelevancy in this security crisis. It should start by 1) not whining, 2) planning now for a potential flood of millions of Ukrainian refugees all of whom have visa free travel to the EU. This is possible now without any reforms.
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Jan 11
My predictions on with what Russia's manufactured crisis will end up with:

1. Putin doesn't invade but as a Parthian shot initiates a serious of nasty cyber attacks on Ukraine that will be hard to prove but clear to everyone.

2. No one, will be any closer to joining NATO. 1/n
3. In Sweden less and Finland more, the Overton Window on NATO membership will have moved significantly with a once taboo topic now comme il faut.

4. Having been ignored for so long by the EU, CEE concerns will be taken slightly more seriously by soi-disant "Old Members" 2/n
5. Having been completely ignored and sidelined in the crisis and getting a taste of what it's like for CEE, the EU as a whole will either:
A. Get serious finally on security and defense, or
B. Give up on the fiction of being a serious player.
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Jan 7
The EU alas has botched two Russian invasions already: Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014.

France held the EU Presidency in 2008 as well so in 2022 will be under special scrutiny, at least this side of the EU and should be everywhere.

Back then (1/x)
ft.com/content/bb00f1…
Sarkozy flew about, announced a "Peace Plan", that froze the EU-Russia "Partnership and Co-operation agreement" until Russia withdrew its troops from Georgia.

A month later, with no troops gone, Sarkozy instead assailed Eastern members, threw out the troop withdrawal part (2/x)
at a meeting of the EU Council, and exclaimed "Thank God common sense prevailed!". This about his own "Peace Agreement" that a month earlier, redolent of Chamberlain, he had announced as an achievement of the French presidency.

One of the roots of CEE suspicions about (3/x)
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