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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

”Some capitals suggested Berlin should have invoked consultations under Nato’s Article 4” 1. 🥱🥱🥱 2. Has been done 3. Hasn’t led to anything 4. Doesn’t impress Putin 5. Consultations won’t make Russia stop

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The Insider @theins.press · 28/09/2026

Russian-Israeli couple detained in Montenegro with 19 suitcases, police find €1 million in cash and surveillance gear at their apartment The couple were detained on Sept. 23 at Tivat airport while trying to fly to Tel Aviv.

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Russian-Israeli couple detained in Montenegro with 19 suitcases, police find €1 million in cash and surveillance gear at their apartment

A married couple with Russian and Israeli citizenship, Alexander Kruglyansky and Alexandra Kruglyanskaya, have been arrested in Montenegro, where they will be…

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LeidenGlobal @leidenglobal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

𝗢𝗲𝗸𝗿𝗮ï𝗻𝗲: 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗸𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗮𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗼𝗴 Oorlog in #Oekraïne gaat door, terwijl het politieke tumult groeit. Voormalig minister Fedorov beschuldigt de gevestigde orde van corruptie en pleit voor nieuwe verkiezingen. @antoanetadl.bsky.social (@unileiden.bsky.social) te gast @nporadio1.bsky.social

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Politieke crisis in Oekraïne?

Bij een grootschalige Russische aanval op Kiev zijn afgelopen nacht zeker dertien doden en ruim veertig gewonden gevallen. Intussen heeft president Zelensky te maken met een politieke crisis. Het…

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

💥 Two powerful explosions were heard in the Sevastopol Bay area, - Crimean Wind

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

2/ The Kremlin has conducted a broad censorship campaign aimed at controlling the narrative of the progress of the full-scale invasion since 2022, making it easier for Putin to present a much more positive vision of the war’s progress than the military situation actually supports.

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

MORE: Putin has been able to present a fictional picture of the Russian military’s performance on the battlefield to the Russian public more readily than he can dissemble about the economic situation. ⬇ 🧵(1/3)

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

3/ Ukrainian long-range strikes, however, have forced Putin to publicly acknowledge the economic effects that over four years of war have had on Russia as the Russian population and business community see those strikes and their effects themselves in ways that censorship cannot control.

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Jan Schoonis @janschoonis.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

📚 Leestip! Dit boek van @catherinedevries.bsky.social raakte me. Opgegroeid in het Zeeuwse grensdorp Sas van Gent herken ik hoe verlatenheid politieke ruimte creëert voor radicaal-rechts. Die vul je niet met boosheid, maar met perspectief. Daarvoor zet ik me elke dag voor in, in de Tweede Kamer

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

* DANISH PRIME MINISTER: I EXPECT ALL ALLIES TO RESPECT DENMARK'S SOVEREIGNTY, GREENLAND IS NOT FOR SALE @reuters.com

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

▫️The analysis of the data obtained shows that the Russian military-industrial complex is increasingly dependent on the supply of components from China. For example, optical parts manufactured by Chinese companies are key in the navigation and guidance systems of all types of Iskander missiles.

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Terje Helland @terjehelland.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

🇲🇩On June 15, the EU formally opened accession negotiations with Moldova. Exactly one month earlier, Putin signed a decree fast-tracking Russian citizenship for residents of Transnistria. Europe's fastest-moving EU candidate is also Russia's most active hybrid target. 1/10

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Antoaneta Dimitrova @antoanetadl.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The Leiden-London conference on flexibility in #EUenlargement starts with a keynote speech by Roman Petrov from Kiyv Mohyla university. We expect hot debates on the hottest day of the year @fggaleiden.bsky.social @leidenglobal.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social

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EUolifant 🇪🇺🐘 @euolifant.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

EUolifant stampt door! We zijn nu ook te vinden op Substack! Vanaf nu delen we daar elke week nieuwe ideeën, analyses en reflecties over wat er speelt in Europa. Telkens weer geschreven door een andere EUolifant. 🐘🇪🇺 Benieuwd? Lees onze eerste bijdrage 👉 substack.com/@euolifant/n...

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"Een eerste stap in de vorming van een Europese federatie"

Op Europadag verschijnt de allereerste Substack van EUolifant: een introductie van het collectief. Daarnaast schrijft Joshua Livestro over de beroemde toespraak van ‘Founding Father’ Robert Schuman.

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Antoaneta Dimitrova @antoanetadl.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Wekelijkse update van de #EUolifant: mijn reflecties op spoiler governments in de EU en de nieuwe Bulgaarse regering en minister president Radev substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Is de nieuwe Bulgaarse minister-president de nieuwe Orbán?

Een nieuwe wekelijkse update van #EUolifant

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Antoaneta Dimitrova @antoanetadl.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Our newly published paper with @honoratam.bsky.social focuses on the problem of trust in societies in transition and the role of public service reforms for increasing trust and support for government. It is based on a new dataset from Ukraine before the war 1/2

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LeidenGlobal @leidenglobal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐟 & 𝐩𝐫𝐨-𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐡: 𝐰𝐢𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐑𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐑𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐯, 𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐯𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐮𝐥𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐣𝐞? Dit weekend waren voor de 8ste keer in 5 jaar tijd #verkiezingen in #Bulgarije, deze keer met 1 duidelijke winnaar. Bulgarije-kenner @antoanetadl.bsky.social (@leidenhumanities.bsky.social) vertelt hierover @rtl.nl

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Progressief en pro-Russisch: wie is Rumen Radev, de aanstaande premier van Bulgarije?

Bulgaren gingen afgelopen weekend voor de achtste keer in vijf jaar naar de stembus. Dit keer voor het eerst met een duidelijke winnaar: Rumen Radev (62). De linkse politicus staat bekend als…

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Neil Lewis @neil-lewis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Four years ago today, we went to bed only to wake to the sound of explosions the first many of us had ever heard. We woke up to war. Since then, the war has been with us every second. No one is truly safe, no one is okay, and the future remains uncertain. Even when we laugh,

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

This is the way. Each Russian demand list must be mirrored. The battlefield is stalled and no one is winning. Thus, there's no reason to preemptively concede a single russian demand. The deference to russia's supposed might, which has long characterized European/US policy needs to end. Russia...

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Antoaneta Dimitrova @antoanetadl.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Former Dutch minister of defense Joris Voorhoeve answering why Europeans are less aware: the awareness of the Russian threat is proportional to the geographical distance. Denmark contributes much more than the Netherlands to Ukrainian defense @fggaleiden.bsky.social @universiteitennl.bsky.social

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Antoaneta Dimitrova @antoanetadl.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

As the anniversary of Russia’s full scale invasion nears, I feel the shock and sadness that of that day, only a fraction of what Ukrainians are going through. Yet they do not give up. Listening to Ukrainian former POW Oleksi Anulia @fggaleiden.bsky.social we need support for Ukraine more than ever.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Loosing patience with X 📉 New poll shows 70+% support for taking further actions against X and amongst those supporting action, many consider not only fines but also a ban. The investigations by the @ec.europa.eu into X are backed and poll corroborates public support for platform regulation.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

MEPs accuse COM of political expediency, arguing that the decision came on the eve of a crucial summit of EU leaders at which the bloc was desperate for Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán to cooperate on sending aid to Ukraine. The legal opinion by AG Ćapeta — to annul COM’s decision to unfreeze the funds —

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

🚨🚨 #Hungary had a dreadful day yesterday at the @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social; First, the CJEU suggested that the #Sovereignty law did breach EU law on several counts. Secondly, AG Capeta proposed the Court to annul the Commission’s decision to unfreeze €10B in funds. www.politico.eu/article/comm...

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‘Absurd!’ Orbán slams idea of returning EU’s €10B

European Commission was wrong to give Hungary EU funds, says adviser to top court.

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Oekraïne Vandaag @oekrainevandaag.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

De helm waarmee 🇺🇦 Vladyslav Heraskevytsj is verbannen van de Olympische Spelen:

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Mark Duursma @markduursma.eurosky.social · 11/02/2026

Albanië: derde demonstratie in korte tijd tegen corruptie binnen regering van premier Rama loopt uit de hand nos.nl/artikel/2601... in @nieuws.nos.nl

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Rellen bij demonstratie tegen regering Albanië, meerdere gewonden

De regering van premier Rama ligt onder vuur vanwege beschuldigingen van corruptie tegen vicepremier Balluku.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 10/02/2026

⚡️ Update: Russian lawmaker says Telegram restrictions part of Russia's 'struggle with NATO.' "Information security is an integral part of the struggle between us and NATO," Russian lawmaker Andrei Gurulev said.

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Russia restricts Telegram in latest push to tighten internet control

Russian lawmaker Andrei Svintsov said Telegram may face restrictions because it "does not fully comply with the requirements" of Russian law.

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Russia continues to answer diplomacy with missiles. We are determined to make that choice painfully expensive. Today, we present our 20th sanctions package. Sanctions severely hurt Russia’s economy. And every sanction chips away at its capacity for war. (1/9)

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Brian Taylor @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Nothing says "Russians and Ukrainians are one people" and Kyiv is "the mother of all Russian cities“ quite like trying to destroy its energy system and freeze its citizens.

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Joost van Spanje @joostvanspanje.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Great @theguardian.com piece by @catherinedevries.bsky.social: "attention itself has become a strategic battlefield of int'l politics. Attention wars aren't won by reacting faster. They're won by deciding what deserves focus. Europe (..) needs to outplan" Trump. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Trump wants our attention. Let’s stop falling for his geopolitical clickbait | Catherine De Vries

Whether he’s targeting Greenland, tariffs or Iran, Trump’s agenda is to distract – because a Europe that is always reacting is never planning, says political scientist Catherine De Vries

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

🇫🇮 Stubb: I don't agree with the narrative that claims Russia is winning militarily. Over the past 1,000 days, Russia has advanced by 1% of Ukrainian territory. The cost of that advance has been 1,000 dead soldiers per day — about 30,000 per month. These figures refer to the dead, not the wounded.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

“We can negotiate all political aspects – security, investment, the economy – but we cannot negotiate our sovereignty,” Mette Frederiksen, Danish Prime Minister. Contours of a framework of a negotiation. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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Greenland talks must respect our sovereignty, says Danish PM

Mette Frederiksen makes comments after European leaders give cautious welcome to US president’s tariff U-turn

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Antoaneta Dimitrova @antoanetadl.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Two leaders that can give us hope, next to a sharp diagnosis of our current predicament. One you probably have come across with his magnificent speech in Davos. The other one, pay attention to what he says! open.substack.com/pub/antoanet...

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Carney and Kubilius

Leadership of ideas and recognizing hard realities shows the way forward

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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Question in Copenhagen: why is Trump focussed on a Russian threat that doesn't exist (in Greenland) as opposed to one where it does (Ukraine)?

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Antoaneta Dimitrova @antoanetadl.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

@euobserver.com's Tauber nails the script for recent US policy interventions: ' By now this whole thing is a playbook that’s been practised quite thoroughly by the Trump administration: Imagine a crisis. Treat the imagination as reality. Escalate the imagined crisis into an actual crisis... 1/2

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

🚨🚨In light of recent events, it is worth to recap that the #tradebazooka, aka as the #Anti-Coercion instrument now is more serious on the table as the EU is considering its response to #Trump's insane Greenland plans. 🧵 policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/enforcement-...

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Protecting against coercion

The Anti-Coercion Instrument for protecting the EU and its Member States from third countries’ economic coercion entered into force on 27 December 2023.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/01/2026

We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate

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Armida van Rij @armida.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The tripwire force is finally here... But instead of being in Ukraine to deter Russia, it is within NATO territory to deter one NATO ally from violating another NATO ally's sovereignty. The world turned upside down.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The Bulgarian patriarch, known for his pro-Ru position, praised the Trump administration for bringing normalcy back to the world(!). Surreal. It's as if the cornerstones of religion are might-makes-right, humiliation, and traditional gender roles instead of empathy, humanism, and morality.

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Oekraïne Vandaag @oekrainevandaag.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Rusland is een terreurorganisatie:

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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

🚨 Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen rejects being part of the United States in any way: “We are now facing a geopolitical crisis, and if we have to choose between the United States and Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark.”

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

🇺🇦 Ukrainian Envoy to the UN, Andrii Melnyk: Every time the international community believes that Russia has reached the limits of lies and barbarity, Moscow once again outdoes itself. It finds a way to sink even lower, proving that there is no bottom to its criminal intent.

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Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Was going to do a little graphic on tis, but have quickly discovered there's much more to international law than I'd appreciated, so instead a quick thread tl;dr a 'Farage clause' is a legitimate ask, and reflects the slow rebuilding of EU trust post-Brexit in the UK 1/

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Oekraïne Vandaag @oekrainevandaag.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

🇬🇧 Britse minister van Defensie John Healey naast een door Rusland gebombardeerd woongebouw in Kyiv: "Dit is waarom we deze maand, in het Verenigd Koninkrijk, beginnen met de productie van onderscheppers [drones] die Shahed-drones zullen stoppen die zoveel schade aanrichten aan gebouwen zoals deze."

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