Call to action!
"It is our responsibility to show the international community a clear antiwar stance that we as Russian citizens, free from the claws of Putin's regime and propaganda machine, are taking"
message from @rusdemsoc
"We cannot allow ourselves to get used to this criminal war, let alone remain silent when Putin claims that it is being waged on our behalf and with our support." @rusdemsoc
These banners speak volumes (Prague, 26.3.2022)
It's been nearly a year since Putin has started an atrocious war against Ukraine
On Feb 24-26 there will be massive rallies & demonstrations held by Russians all over the world to protest against this terrible war
Russians living abroad, join them!
📷 Russians in 🇨🇿 (26.3.2022)
📢 Save the Date
📣 Russians all over the world protesting against this terrible war
🗓 When? February 24-26
How do you attack a NATO country without firing a shot?
For the last two years, Russia has been giving a masterclass in the Baltic Sea. The Kremlin utilized ghost ships, anchor-dragging, spy drones.
🧵Here is how the West is starting to fight back.
The campaign began in October 2023. The Balticconnector gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia suddenly lost pressure. A Chinese-flagged ship with Russian ties, the Newnew Polar Bear, dragged its anchor for miles along the seabed. news.err.ee/1609161313/anc…
One year later, it happened again. In October 2024, another Chinese-flagged ship, the Yi Peng 3, severed two more undersea cables using the same anchor-dragging method. European intelligence sources suspected the crew had been bribed by Russian services.
Apple warned Russia's First Deputy Defense Minister his iPhone was compromised by state-sponsored hackers.
He kept using it anyway
🧵@dossier_center reveals a catastrophic security breach at the heart of Putin's war machine
On June 22, 2023, Ruslan Tsalikov—the second most powerful man in Russia's defense ministry—got an urgent message from California. Apple warned him that hackers backed by a foreign government were trying to compromise his iPhone linked to personal email ruslantsalikov@ya.ru
The timing couldn't be worse. Ukraine was counterattacking under Bakhmut. Russian forces were advancing near Kupyansk. And the very next day, Prigozhin would launch his march on Moscow. it’s likely that Tsalikov didn’t have time to properly respond to such a warning.
Putin and Xi proclaimed a "limitless partnership," but a leaked FSB memo reveals the truth: Russian intelligence calls China "the enemy" and warns of Beijing's espionage, military theft, territorial ambitions in Siberia.
The alliance is a trap and Putin knows it.
🧵Read on
The FSB believes China is trying to recruit disaffected Russian scientists and officials, steal military secrets (especially from the Ukraine front) and lay the groundwork for future territorial claims in the Far East. All while publicly calling Russia its ‘partner’
Behind the fanfare of geopolitical unity, Putin has walked the country into a trap. The same regime that loves to shout about sovereignty has reduced Russia to a dependent supplier of raw materials to a more powerful nation
The Russian Anti-War Committee demands an immediate, unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine to stop the senseless bloodshed.
But let's be clear: stopping the fighting doesn't end the war. The war comes from the very nature of Putin's regime.
🧵Russian opposition's warning to the world (1/9)
2/ Stopping the fighting in Ukraine will end the senseless deaths on both sides of the frontline. But a ceasefire does not mean the war is over. The war stems from the very nature of Putin's regime and will continue as long as that regime exists.
3/ Putin's regime was designed from the start to crush civil liberties, destroy democratic institutions, and concentrate power in the hands of one man. Internal violence against civil society and external aggression against neighbors are two sides of the same totalitarian coin.
A Moscow court sentenced Anastasia Burakova to 7.5 years in prison in absentia.
@KovchegLive (The Ark) — the organization she runs — housed 4,000+ Russians fleeing mobilization and helped 160,000 navigate emigration since 2022.
Russia wanted her on Interpol's list. Interpol said no. (Read on)
Burakova was convicted for a speech at an anti-war rally in Tbilisi where she said Russian forces were "destroying Ukrainian cities, torturing people in occupied territories, killing civilians."
During Putin's mobilization in September 2022, Ark's capacity surged from 28 to 220 beds. They opened emergency shelters in Kazakhstan as hundreds of thousands fled conscription to the neighboring visa-free country. koerber-stiftung.de/en/projects/uk…