London-based geopolitical analyst focused on #Russia, #Ukraine, #Belarus, #Eurasia.
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Vovchansk, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, May 2024.
In June-July 1994, Belarusians went to a free and open election, the last free election in Belarusian history. I was 17 back then and could not vote.
Belarusian Library in #London, #UK, @skarynauka, was founded in 1971, contains 40,000 books. It makes it the largest collection of Belarusian books outside o Belarus.
#Pobedobesie is a pejorative term used to describe the "hyperbolic celebrations" of Victory Day in #Russia. This has been dubbed the Victory Cult.
1. Wear proper attire; do not wear patches or other insignia identifying your unit.
The monument to Catherine II, Empress of Russia in 1762-1796, was erected in Odesa in 1900. It was dismantled shortly after the Russian Revolution, in 1920, after the Bolsheviks gained control of the city. 
2/x In the regions bordering Ukraine - from Bryansk to Krasnodar - plus the occupied Crimea and Sevastopol, not shown on the map as they are Ukraine, there is regime of "average reaction level" to be introduced. Show orange on the map.
More photos from this rally: interestingly the rally included members of the Russian ethnic minorities, from Sakha-Yakutia to North Caucasus. 
Ukrainian refugees (continued from tweet above)
This includes (continued):
More details about the disproportionate war losses among #Russia's ethnic minorities and peripheral regions read here (in Russian)
1) The “military operation” is a preventive measure in order to prevent the full-scale aggression against Russia that is being prepared by Ukraine.
#Russia's proxies in the Donbas conflict zone, DPR and LPR shelled #Ukraine's armed forces positions on 18 February 66 times, 52 of which involved weapons proscribed by the Minsk agreements.
Proof re Norwegian armed forces:
Putin's notion of Russia's 'area of privileged interest' is based on the narrative that Moscow acts as the stabilising force in the region. If the Kremlin is allowed to keep countries in its sphere of influence, they will be stable, with low levels of violence.
