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Nov 28 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
And off we go 🚀

In Berlin the “Dialogue for the Future 2022” on building resilient civil societies and defending democracies in the EU and its eastern neighborhood with over 100 civil society activists.

Program and live stream 👇
civilsocietycooperation.net/conference-202…

#DFF2022 #wechange Image
.@avalaina of the Center for Civil Liberties opens with an impressive keynote talking about Maksym Butkevych, a human rights activist and journalist, who signed up to the army to defend #Ukraine and is now in Russian captivity. He symbolizes the 🇺🇦 resilience #FreeMaksymButkevych Image
This war is a war of autocracies versus free and democratic societies, @avalaina says, and adds that Putin is not afraid of NATO but afraid of the idea of freedom spreading in his neighborhood and into Russia.

Thank you for you clarity and your organization’s work, Oleksandra!
The first panel focuses on the rise of autocracies in Belarus and Russia and how human rights and other civil society actors in these country and free media tried to resist (and ultimately failed) the autocratic pressure and were pushed into exile or prison… Image
.@RebHarms asks the question how come that the independent media in RU covered Ukraine & Russia’s aggression so insufficiently and with little empathy in the past years.

Passivity, ignorance & imperialism on the RU side, even among the liberal elite, are part of the answer…

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But I think that we have to prepare for scenarios of 1-10 mio ADDITIONAL refugees if we cannot stabilize the situation. /2
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Unfortunately, this is just the beginning. Russia will be able to cut off more cities, even if temporarily, from power and heating. /3
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The @Europarl_EN voted (494 yes, 58 no, 44 abstentions) to declare Russia a ‘state sponsor of terrorism’.
To be clear, for now, Russia is not just a state sponsor of terrorism but a terrorist state using its military to terrorize millions of 🇺🇦. /1
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I deleted my yesterday's tweet referring to the AP intelligence sources saying the rockets hitting Poland were Russian. The origins will have to be properly investigated and it seems the first unofficial reports/off-the-record sources were wrong. /1
We will very soon know whether it was a deliberate strike or accident, where it originated from, and what rockets were used.

I am thankful for all the voices of reason out there, who have warned against jumping to conclusions, incl. @shashj and many others. /2
But let this not cloud our judgment: the only reason the rockets were fired in the first place is Russia's war against #Ukraine and its war crimes against civilian infrastructure.

Yesterday, nearly 100 rockets were fired, making it the largest attack since 24 February.

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