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Before she became a drone operator, Yarina Chornohuz translated Sylvia Plath into Ukrainian. I'm fundraising for her drone unit in Kherson. DM me for the IBAN. they need
1) A two-axle trailer for a car
2) Batteries: 10 units (15 thousand ampere)
3) FPV Drone Detector Whoover 2
4) Tactical thermal case for batteries.
5) Shotgun vs russian fpv-drones Typhoon Sierra Od Green S кал. 12/76. Ствол - 55 sm
More about her here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaryna…
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Robert Nurick has passed away—a great friend of Estonia, a supporter of the NATO accession process, and a dedicated contributor to the Lennart Meri Conference. We remember him with sadness and gratitude. His friendship meant a great deal to Estonia.
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Albert Einstein’s Letter to the Rector of the University of Tartu welcoming the decision to establish a Chair of Jewish Studies in Estonia
"May this demonstration of exemplary national tolerance receive the well-deserved attention and recognition throughout Europe."
16 October 1930
To His Magnificence
Professor Dr. Köpp
Rector of the University
Tartu
Highly Esteemed Mr. Rector,
Mr. J. Blumenfeld of Tartu reported on the forthcoming establishment of a Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Tartu and on the understanding and benevolent reception that this plan has met with from the university authorities.
I welcome its establishment with the wish that it may prosper, and ask you, highly esteemed Professor, to accept this expression of joy and gratitude for the support you have shown.
May this demonstration of exemplary national tolerance receive the well-deserved attention and recognition throughout Europe.
With the highest esteem,
A. Einstein
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On Remembrance Day, I want to remember an extraordinary Lithuanian: Romualdas Marcinkus (1907–1944).
A military aviator who served in the Lithuanian, French and British air forces, he was also a talented footballer and captain of Lithuania’s national team.
During WWII, he flew Hurricanes with RAF No. 1 Squadron before being shot down over France in 1942 and taken prisoner.
In March 1944, he participated in the legendary Great Escape from Stalag Luft III. Recaptured by the Germans, he was murdered by the Gestapo.
Even while wearing his RAF uniform, Marcinkus proudly displayed his Lithuanian Plieno sparnai (Steel Wings).
Three air forces, one homeland. Never forgotten. 🇱🇹🇬🇧🌺
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❓ “Debate about the Joint Expeditionary Force (@JEFnations) often begins with a question that appears sensible but is analytically incomplete: does JEF duplicate NATO?”
📚 Eva Sula answers it in Paper 3 of BISC’s JEF Papers: bisc.s.gy/jef-and-nato. #JEFtogether
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An incredible investigation by @OCCRP and @DelfiEE, led by Martin Laine, has exposed more than 500 ‘useful idiots’ across the West who took part in an extensive Russian fake news campaign.
It includes, for example, Lembit Öpik, the former Liberal Democrat MP turned conspiracy theorist, pictured here hosting neo-Nazi Nick Griffin this week.
It includes Ben Aris, the former Moscow correspondent and “Russia expert” who has both Leonid Ragozin and Mark Galeotti working for him.
They are among the 500 who were supporting “Doppelgänger”, a state-backed Russian disinformation campaign, creating clones of genuine news sites to spread pro-Kremlin narratives aimed at undermining support for Ukraine.
One website contributing to that is ‘Recent Reliable News (RRN)’. It contained more than 500 interviews in its database with pro-Russian useful idiots, which would have been posted across Doppelgänger-linked websites, but have now been made public.
@thenerve_news has attempted to contact those involved, but many have been evasive, such as Lembit Öpik and Ben Aris.
When asked to comment, Öpik claimed not to understand the question, made bizarre remarks about security services, and did not respond to follow-up messages.
Meanwhile, Aris claimed that the Russian propaganda campaign only used his public statements from X. He stopped responding when it was pointed out to him that they’d actually found the videos that he recorded specifically for this campaign.
Full investigation from the OCCRP here. Give it a read and give @Martinlaineolen a follow for this incredible work. occrp.org/en/investigation/f…
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Deeply saddened by the passing of Bob Nurick. Bob was a brilliant national security professional and mentor, whose depth of policy knowledge and sharp analytical mind I always admired.
Beyond his expertise, he was a wonderfully generous colleague and friend—always genuinely interested in how the family was doing, and always offering his spare room whenever passing through DC.
He was also the single-most influential person to spark our family’s passion for baseball! ⚾️
Why I’ve bought starlink. […] dennikn.sk/5683834/edward-lu…
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Lithuania announced a major €880 million decentralization plan to build 10 new power plants and establish 7 self-sufficient "energy islands" by 2033. Modelled on lessons from Ukraine's wartime power grid, this initiative protects the country against prolonged blackouts.
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This online discussion will ask what it means to take the Baltic seriously as a model rather than a frontier: What can a region defined by vulnerability teach Europe about confidence, adaptability & democratic renewal? Join experts including @edwardlucas, 11/24: daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/…
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“We are not wasting our time being worried,” Eerik-Niiles Kross explains to Frontline on @TimesRadio.
While Estonia is very grateful for its allies and their contributions, Kross explains that Estonia - like all countries - must always be responsible for its own security and also contribute to the defence of our whole alliance.
Kross grew up under occupation and became a prominent figure in the anti-Soviet resistance movement before later rising to chief of Estonian intelligence. Now an MP, he was recently honoured with the Magnitsky Human Rights Award for his Outstanding Contribution to the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign.
Do follow @EerikNKross if you’re not already.
Full interview here: youtu.be/dpJ4xUmFUFg
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Lots of discussion on here and elsewhere about the Kushner/Kremlin ideas for a "new European security architecture", but the idea this is the moment to rethink European security is profoundly unrealistic (and un-Realist, for what that's worth). A few points:
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In 1928, a monument commemorating the 10th anniversary of Lithuania's independence was erected in Šventybrastis. In 1959, Soviet authorities ordered it blown up and its remains buried. In 1989, local residents unearthed the fragments, restored the monument and returned it to its original location. They could destroy the monument, but not the memory. 🇱🇹
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Download the full 28-page Sovereign & Market Risk Exposure Report ("Musk, Russia, and the Compromise of U.S. and NATO Satellite Supremacy") streetwiseprofessor.com/word… The 26-Formula Verification Workbook is available to institutional desks and oversight inquiries upon request.
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📬 The latest dispatch of our newsletter is out today: Kaliningrad’s blackout and @edwardlucas’s Baltic lessons for Britain. Our book Fragile Fortress is released on November 30, and there is an invitation for you to its launch in Brussels.
📖 Read it: bisc.s.gy/dispatch5
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Awesome. Congratulations Moldova
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How is Russia's network inside Spain organised, and how does it push content?
Our 11-week analysis of Spain's information space shows three layers.
Layer one: the hub. A Telegram channel run from Moscow by Enrique Arias Gil, a Spanish political scientist living under Russian protection. It is small, about 500 readers per post. Its job is not reach. Its job is production: translating Russian hacktivist attack claims into Spanish within the hour, publishing recruitment offers for informants, hackers and soldiers, and doxxing Spanish security personnel.
Everything above it is Russian. Everything below it is built to look Spanish.
Spain votes on Nov 29. Russia is already inside the conversation.
An 11-week OSINT investigation collected 54,737 posts across X, Telegram, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, mapped 10,773 accounts and 3,284 network links.
The headline isn't "disinformation." It's recruitment. A Spaniard in Moscow is openly hiring his own countrymen as informants, hackers and soldiers. In Spanish. During the campaign.
Around him, a ring of pro-Russian channels with ~500K subscriptions feeds ready-made narratives to ordinary Spaniards, deciding how every crisis gets explained before the facts arrive.
This is a national security problem dressed up as a media problem.
Full report:
