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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 39m

Wenn ein paar der Dorfgemeinschaften mit Quotenständeräten fusionieren würden, sähe ihre Bilanz hier wohl besser aus… Quelle: www.instagram.com/reel/DeQwwP7...

Statistik mit Anz. Bundesräte pro Kanton

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 2h

Yet another war crime in Kharkiv where a hospital has been hit. A Banderol missile struck the building in the Slobidskyi district, injuring five. If you want to believe Russian lies, remember they did this in Grozny, Aleppo, Mariupol and don't forget the kids' hospital in Kyiv.

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 3h

And its Jordan and Lebanese branches have close ties with Hamas. An in my view fair and informed assessment of the MB is this text: www.thecairoreview.com/essays/the-t.... Yes, the author has to be seen as a Sisi sympathiser, but he seems to take his scholarly role seriously. 2/2

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The Truth about the Muslim Brotherhood

For the better part of two decades, a debate has raged in American research and policy circles about whether the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is a moderate political force. A study of the Brotherhood’s...

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 3h

That’s all true of course. But it’s also a bit cheap to entirely dismiss the assessment of the MB, solely on the basis of its sender. Of course the Sisi regime serves its own interests. But that does not simply invalidate the reasoning. Hamas is basically a MB spin-off. 1/2

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 3h

Of course they were not properly conducted, especially through of the non-admission of opposition figures. And the power-grab was obviously as undemocratic as it could be. But the assessment of the MB is likely one of the areas for which public backing is actually high.

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 3h

See here bsky.app/profile/andr...

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 4h

True that. But the ban was upheld by courts and Sisi did win elections afterwards. It’s of course an authoritarian regime, but Egypt is also not the only Muslim-majority country banning the MB. Yes, none are exactly template democracies, but that doesn’t by itself invalidate their MB assessment.

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 4h

It was carried by 381 (68%) and opposed by 167 (30%) MEPs. (2/2) Thank you, Alice Bah Kuhnke (@miljopartiet.bsky.social Sweden), for having been the one rep of the @greens-efa.eu who had the sense of siding with secular and Ex-Muslims and not with the islamists.

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 4h

In Egypt, the country where it has its home base, the Muslim Brotherhood is banned as a terrorist organisation. On 8 October, the European Parliament decided on a proposal to develop a strategy to limit its influence in Europe. (1/2) howtheyvote.eu/votes/198051

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Vote results: The need for an EU strategy to counter Islamist entryism and the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood network

Find out how the Members of the European Parliament voted.

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Mario Sixtus @sixtus.net · 11h

In Berlin vergeht praktisch kein Tag ohne eine Meldung, dass Juden auf der Straße angegeriffen oder beschimpft wurden, aber ein Teil der Linkspartei streitet nun tatsächlich darüber, ob die Formulierung "Wir sind gegen jede Form von Antisemitismus" zu sehr nach Axel Springer klingt. Meine Fresse!

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 14h

Russland will wohl seine Vorräte vertcken, bevor sie wegen aufgeregter Flamingos auf der Suche nach Nistplätzen in die Luft gehen.

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 14h

So they are trying to export their reserves before they get blown up by overly excited flamingoes looking for nesting sites.

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Currently it's still needed as a flight route for homesick colonisers.

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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🇸🇰 #Slovakia unveiled a statue of Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev on Oct 3, initiated by Fico. Russia's FM praised it and also called Czechia's removal of his Prague statue in 2020 "outright barbarism." Konev is known as the "Bloody Marshal." He helped crush Hungary's 1956 uprising.

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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Currently, Germans are busy with their favourite pastime: downplaying the significance of the first joint motion of the winners of the Saxony-Anhalt election. The danger of russian proxies normalizing the idea of russian conquests — just as happened with racism and anti-Semitism — goes unnoticed.

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

For his case studies on Kleptocracy?

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The last legal public execution in the United States took place on August 14, 1936. 20,000 people turned up to watch it. Hegseth's horror show will be watched by millions. What has become of America?

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Handy that they come in clusters in places like Petersburg and Moscow.

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Still 187 to go… Surely the Wildberries one aims to be aligned with the new look and feel of its warehouses.

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So you have another by-election today, Brits. Congrats to your working democracy. But seriously, the process to get there deserves some streamlining.

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

After passing its “zionism is racism“ motion, The Green Party of England and Wales (@greenparty.org.uk) proudly presents its new logo.

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“The resolution “Zionism is Racism” as voted yesterday goes against our agreed positions of the EGP and its Member Parties, therefore as EGP we unequivocally distance ourselves from it.” Thank you for this, @europeangreens.eu!

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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

On this day 20 years ago, Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow, on Putin’s 54th birthday. She had spent years reporting on Putin’s Russia and exposing atrocities committed during Russia’s war in Chechnya. Dozens of journalists have been killed for their work under Putin.

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ah, dieser beeindruckende und beliebte Generalistenstudiengang, der von Fussballtraining und Staatsrecht über Epidemiologie, Energietechnik und Wirtschaft bis zu Geopolitik und Kriegsführung einfach alles umfasst.

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Aber alles Expertinnen und Experten in Sachen Expertiseeinschätzung?

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Better not, so the place can be handed over to Canada in a halfway orderly condition.

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So, der wuchernde Basilikum ist verarbeitet – zu Sirup.

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Das war vor vier Jahren. Zugegeben, die To-do-Liste ist seither nicht merklich kürzer geworden…

NZZaS-Gastbeitrag vom 6. 10. 2022:
Luzern gibt den Startschuss für die Trennung von Kirche und Staat
Lehnen in einem katholisch geprägten Kanton alle Gemeinden einen Kredit für den Vatikan ab, ist dies ein Zeichen für mehr Säkularisierung.
Und da bleibt noch vieles zu tun, findet Andreas Kyriacou

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Has Xi accused Putin of plaguerism yet?

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If Rees-Mogg can outsmart you, you really should go offline…

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The strategy being buying up all Russian oil till the Kremlin has none left?

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Probably time to read this novel by Annie Jacobsen, in which she sketches out what might happen after an accident in a biolab… (Was on my to-read list since having heard the interview with her on @telegraph.co.uk’s Ukraine The Latest podcast a month ago.) www.penguin.co.uk/books/471829...

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Biological War

A lab accident, a bio-attack, a global pandemic, and the collapse of human society. In this essential new book, based on dozens of new interviews with experts with high-level political, governmental, ...

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Indeed! Waiting time was much shorter than in Przemysl.

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Colliu @colliu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Key point: The news is not Putin trying to subvert “the West”: Brexit, AfD, Le Pen, Orban, everything remotely right wing he supported. The news is that the U.S. have turned. There is no “West” anymore. There is a fragile island of liberal democracies in Europe encircled by autocracies.

While I saw some real weaknesses in Biden's policy towards Ukraine (and still do), he remained absolutely committed to the Atlantic alliance.

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

why have Lukoil‘s EU plants not been confiscated yet? Putler has demonstrated how easy that is.

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If that‘s the actual reason why Toyota wants to re-enter the Russian market, I‘m ok with it.

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes, and written in particularly large letters.

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I remember when I was sitting in the bookshop cafe in the VDNG in Kyiv and casually looking at the nearest bookshelf. Кінг was the first author name I recognised :) (Yes my Ukrainian reading skills are very basic..)

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is Ihor Malchevskyi, a 69-year-old scientist at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, escaping the flames after a Russian attack. I could also write, "the whole world watched this live," but we can see that news from Ukraine has long been out of focus. 📹: DW

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

… man sich als Tierwohlpartei präsentiert, indem man (richtigerweise) einen Betäubungszwang für Froschschenkel einfordert, aber beim legalen Import von Rinder-, Lamm- und Geflügelfleisch aus Schächtung ohne Betäubung wegschaut, weil man religiöse Fundis nicht verärgern will.

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ja, es ist verlogen, wenn eine Partei, die sich beständig gegen mehr Tierschutz sperrt, nun den Import von Fleisch aus Schächtung ohne Betäubung verlangt. Aber es ist halt auch unglaubwürdig, wenn…

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Andreas Kyriacou @andreaskyriacou.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We got (virtual) piles of articles, opinion pieces and court hearing reports to digest in advance. And now the course is about to start. Looking forward to these two days.

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