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Lithuania will now test all Russian and Belarusian grain to verify it did not originate in occupied Ukraine.

Tests could take 2 months or more, and exporters must cover the full cost of storage and testing.

And if the origin is falsified, it will be returned or destroyed.
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Russia deliberately struck a civilian shelter killing at least 18 civilians.

This is pure terror bombardment without any military reasoning. Murder for murders sake.

Wake up Europe, we need to retaliate to Russia, not just condemn these.
An utterly horrific Russian attack on the settlement of Komyshuvakha in the Zaporizhzhia region. Since this morning, the settlement has been hit several times by aerial bombs. The strikes targeted a school used for humanitarian purposes – people were receiving humanitarian aid aerial bomb strike, there was a double-tap strike with nine more bombs, specifically targeting the shelter where people were taking cover. Tragically, 18 people have already been reported killed. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Five people have been injured. A rescue operation is underway at the site, and the search for people continues. It is extremely difficult. Military forces, first responders, and special services are involved.

The Russians could not have been unaware that every week, local residents who had remained in Komyshuvakha received humanitarian aid at that very location. And this is further proof that Russia wants no de-escalation and no real justice. After the humanitarian operation in Oleshky, there was a moment when the next steps could have shown that progress toward peace was possible. With these killings, Russia is sending an entirely opposite signal: Russia is counting on more killings. There must be a response to this – a response from the world. A strong and tough response. A response to Russia. And support for Ukraine. We must protect lives. Thank you to everyone who is helping!
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JUST NU: Svenska storsponsorn bryter med hockey-VM i protest – efter beskedet om Ryssland expressen.se/sport/hockey/t…
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Komyshuvakha, Ukraine.

Russia simply dropped an aerial bomb on a local school where people had gathered to receive humanitarian aid. And when they went to a shelter, Russia dropped another NINE (!!!) glide bombs on it.

The result: at least 24 people killed, including at least had arrived to help the victims.

Someone please explain to me how this is anything other than yet another blatant act of genocide committed by Russia against Ukrainians.
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Proszę zauważyć, że mamy do czynienia z bezprecedensową skalą współpracy w sieci między kontami i propagandystami rosyjskimi, a globalną skrajną prawicą. To jest ewidentny sojusz. A przynajmniej współdziałanie. To powinno wszystkim nam dać do myślenia, kto chce w Polsce zamieszać i komu to służy.
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Replying to @MLP_officiel
Madame Le Pen, as a friend and ally of France, Poland does not interfere in your politics.
Please respect us by not interfering in ours.
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Four former Presidents of the Constitutional Tribunal, from the "golden era" of this institution (including former judge of CJEU and former Polish ombudsman), supported the actions of Anna Korwin-Piotrowska and the rest of the new CT judges.

Passivity in the face of such by Judge Święczkowski and President Nawrocki, would not be compliant with the Constitution. There was a legal and moral obligation for the new judges and state authorities to act.
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There’s a lot of confusion around Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal crisis.

Here’s what you must know:

1. The Polish Constitutional Tribunal is not a lawful court

The CJEU has ruled that it is not a tribunal previously established by law, owing to serious irregularities in e judges and its President (C-448/23, 18 Dec 2025). The ECtHR (Xero Flor v Poland, 2021) and the Venice Commission reached the same conclusion.

2. Restoring judicial independence is a legal obligation, not Tusk's caprice

Articles 2 and 19(1) TEU require every Member State to guarantee independent courts, because: (i) National courts are part of the EU’s system of judicial protection, (ii) their decisions affect all Europeans. The President’s refusal to receive the oaths of four of the six judges elected by the Sejm in March 2026, and the Tribunal leadership’s refusal to let them sit, prompted an ECtHR interim measure in May requiring that nothing hinder them from taking up and exercising their functions.

3. EU law offers no blueprint, but the Commission and the EU courts can check the chosen methods

Appointing Maciej Berek, a minister until weeks earlier and Tusk’s “right-hand man”, to the bench contradicts the government’s pledge to depoliticise the Tribunal. The Friday suspension of the Tribunal’s president and vice-president, ordered by one judge and accompanied by a police presence outside the building, is not in itself a “coup”: the stated aim is to restore a lawfully functioning court. But restoring the rule of law must itself be done lawfully.

4. The EU has weakened its own leverage.

In February 2024, it released up to €137bn in suspended funds on the strength of promises, before durable change was secured. What the EU could do is to reopen an Article 7 TEU procedure against Poland.

5. No: this is not a two-sided, symmetrical dispute

If the Polish government is trying to repair an institution captured under PiS, its opposition is striving to retain some control through illegal means.

Bottom line: restoring judicial independence is a legal duty, and the methods chosen by the Polish government deserve scrutiny. Equating the two sides, or reading that scrutiny as opposition to restoring the Tribunal, is, therefore, deeply misleading.
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In 2020, I wrote about the Law and Justice government's assault on the judiciary. This is the background you need to understand what is happening in Poland today.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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What is happening in Poland is actually very simple.

The current administration is cleaning the corruption and foreign interference left behind by the previous authoritarian government. PiS spent years undermining Polish democracy in what was a prolonged coup, packing key institutions, including the Constitutional Tribunal, with loyalists and traitors.

The authoritarian government was ousted in 2023 but democracy isn’t restored overnight. Especially when the damage is so vast. But as the current government promised, they are cleaning out the last remnants of corruption. Their only fault might be not having done it sooner.

This is an objectively democratic and necessary action if Poland wishes to remain free. But as expected, the enemies of Europe and Poland have all come out of their hiding holes. Not to protect democracy, but as a last stand to defend their last footholds in Poland.

Today we see clearly who the enemies of Poland and Europe are. It is Russia, MAGA, the anti-European crowd and their collaborators in Europe, politicians and influencers alike, all united in anything that makes Europe weaker.

The enemies of Europe and Poland will lose. We will protect our democracies. Will will preserve the European dream. We will make Europe stronger. And no amount of lies can stop us.
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Nie pozwolę, by prawica wyprowadziła nas z Unii Europejskiej. O to dziś toczy się gra.
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The attack dogs of pro-Russian, pro-MAGA and anti-EU propaganda are in full force over what is happening in Poland, portraying the PiS camp as the victim of a supposed coup.

How convenient.

Let’s remember who started this.

In 2015, PiS began dismantling Poland’s rule of law, s on the Constitutional Tribunal and bringing key judicial institutions under political influence.

For eight years, they undermined the very democratic safeguards they now claim to defend.

They lost power in 2023, but their grip on parts of the state survived. Now, as Donald Tusk’s government attempts to restore judicial independence, the same political camp cries dictatorship and presents itself as the victim.

You cannot spend eight years undermining the rule of law and then invoke it as a shield against accountability.

Poland’s democratic institutions belong to its citizens, not to a political party determined to retain power after losing an election.

Restoring the rule of law is not a coup. It is a democratic responsibility. And it must be carried out in accordance with the Constitution.
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However, let's recognize @elonmusk's bravery. Meddling in Europen politics and attacking the EU itself when you want regulatory privileges and frequency permissions is a bold business strategy.
More reporting suggesting that Musk does indeed have his finger on Starshield's operability. Quite a lot of power for a ketamine-addicted trillionaire in bed with hostile foreign regimes. You might even say this endangers U.S. national security. wsj.com/world/trump-ca…
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Unitree Introducing: H2-X Kung Fu Legend Guardian🤖
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Please use the robot safely and in a friendly manner.
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Chemists are failing to reduce their use of hazardous solvents, and AI tools trained on their work are likely to perpetuate the problem.

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Now THIS is ‘Russian opposition’. 👇
For five months, a Russian lieutenant secretly helped Ukraine kill his own comrades by sending it the locations of his brigade, WSJ.

More than 300 Russian soldiers died, including a brigade commander. He took no money, then walked across a minefield to Ukraine. 1/
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RT @ESK001: I first heard of a Russian exiled journalist Leonid Ragozin because of the controversy in Latvia over the decision to declare h…
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Skatos TV3 sižetu par kārtējiem 🇷🇺 triecieniem par 🇺🇦dzīvokļu mājām ar daudziem upuriem & vienlaicīgi lasu par Rogozina atbalsta parakstiem par viņa tiesībām apgalvot, ka 🇷🇺 tīši netēmē pa civiliedzīvotājiem un darīt to Latvijā. Neredzu kā viņš var kvalicēties kā cilvēks ⬇️
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Прочитал длинное интервью российского пропагандиста (неважно, за деньги или по глупости) «Медузе». Оно большое, и там примерно 500 вопросов о том, как его преследуют и какой он боец за правду. Про его жизненный путь и прочая хуета.

Знаете, какого вопроса нет?

Вопроса — почему он публично солгал о характере российских ударов по гражданским объектам и гражданским в Украине на протяжении четырёх лет войны. Это единственный вопрос, который имеет смысл. Это единственный вопрос, который должен интересовать нормального человека, берущего интервью.

Но нет. В гигантском интервью места для этого вопроса не нашлось. Нашлось место для того, чтобы спросить — а что же за кампания по его дискредитации идёт, нашлось место для того, чтобы спросить, что он чувствует в Латвии. И прочая никому нахуй не нужная ахинея.

А вот для такого простого вопроса места не нашлось. Не хватило времени, наверное.

Вопросы о том, как Рагозин относится к Латвии, что он чувствует и почему считает себя жертвой, — это, конечно, прекрасно. Но когда человек представляет себя борцом за объективную журналистику, одновременно публично представляя целенаправленные удары России по гражданским как исключения из общего правила, у журналиста должен возникнуть хотя бы один уточняющий вопрос. Не о чувствах, не о судьбе, не о его невероятно трудном жизненном пути. А о том, почему он лжет.

Также почему-то утверждение о том, что Рагозину что-то угрожает в России, остаётся без проверки. Но с чего бы? Вот мне сегодня ещё несколько лет к сроку накинули. А у Рагозина ни одного уголовного дела, даже административного, в списке иноагентов его тоже нет. Какая конкретно угроза для него существует? На чём основаны его утверждения? Может, журналисты «Медузы» обладают каким-то тайным знанием, но почему они не задают этот элементарный вопрос? Или опять все просто отмывают дружочка-пирожочка?

Вот так господин Рагозин говорил про российские удары на протяжении первых четырёх лет войны в своем недавнем интервью, отрывки из которого и стали последней каплей:

«Как общее правило, они наносили удары по военным и промышленным объектам и старались избегать гибели мирных жителей или избегать ударов по гражданским целям. Из этого было много исключений, и является предметом споров, были ли некоторые, например, многоэтажные жилые дома, поражённые российскими ракетами, действительно поражены российскими ракетами или, возможно, это были украинские ракеты ПВО. Я не эксперт, и для выяснения этого требуется криминалистическое расследование...»

Бомбардировка драмтеатра в Мариуполе, удар по вокзалу в Краматорске (не менее 58 погибших), удар по детской больнице «Охматдет», удар по жилому дому в Днепре (46 погибших), удар по жилому дому в Умани (23 погибших), удар по кафе в селе Гроза (59 погибших). В конце концов, «сафари на людей в Херсоне» — это то, что происходит уже очень долгое время. Российские дроноводы прицельно убивают гражданских людей в Херсоне и хвастаются этим в z-каналах, показывая кадры убийств жителей города. Об этом знает весь мир. Но господин Рагозин почему-то предпочитает рассказывать, как российская армия старается избегать ударов по гражданским.

И это лишь несколько примеров. Я могу долго перечислять. Я рассказывал про каждый из этих ударов и про кампанию по убийству гражданских. Сотни и тысячи убитых Россией людей — для Рагозина это всего лишь исключения из общего правила. Это тезис Путина и Минобороны РФ.

Рагозин не случайный человек, к которому на улице подошли и который не знает, как идёт эта война и как её ведёт Россия. Это человек, который считает себя экспертом и учит Украину и Европу — как им воевать и жить. Но нет вопросов об этом у «Медузы». Им это неинтересно.

Это же классный парень, которого все знают со времён посиделок в Москве.
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