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Nikolaus von Twickel
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Editor with @libmod.de in Berlin, responsible for @russlandverstehen.eu; Longtime Journalist and Russia watcher. Formerly with the OSCE SMM in Donetsk 🇺🇦, @dpa.com Moscow and @themoscowtimes.com 📧 [email protected]; @niktwick.69 on Signal
Die Frage ist, wen trifft es als nächstes? Mit "Correctiv" ist erstmals ein relativ bekanntes deutsches Medium betroffen (sorry, @dekoder.org).
November 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Und jetzt gibt es – endlich – eine Stellungnahme von Correctiv-Herausgeber @schraven.bsky.social:
correctiv.org/in-eigener-s...
November 26, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Ist das einfach Merz, der frei von der Leber labert, oder sein ihr braucht nicht AfD zu wählen weil ich bin’s euer Fritze ich liebe Deutschland zwinker zwinker Messaging? Eigentlich eh wurscht
The Mallorca rule applies here too: if you can't function outside of Bödefeld-Schmallenberg, just stay in fucking Bödefeld-Schmallenberg. Not like the rest of the world is jonesing for a visit from some of the least fun people on the planet.
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
My little globalization moment this morning was having this Croatian-packed treat from Mauritius 🇲🇺 in my tea!
Cc @nickbouchet.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Very much worth your time!
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Have been thinking about comments from people saying the "peace plan" also includes things that Russia won't like, and citing the use of Russia's frozen assets for reconstruction of Ukraine. But nothing in the plan says the money couldn't be spent in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Two days ago, the regime police in Georgia arrested a man over squeaking a chicken toy towards the police.

So, yesterday, many people brought these chickens to do the same.

#GeorgiaProtests

📷 MOSE
November 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Ukraine raises death toll from Ternopil missile strike to 34 reut.rs/4pryMl2
Ukraine raises death toll from Ternopil missile strike to 34
Ukrainian authorities on Sunday said 34 people were killed in last week's Russian attack on the western city of Ternopil, the deadliest Russian missile strike on civilians in 2025.
reut.rs
November 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Sehr guter Artikel von @denistrubetskoy.bsky.social!
November 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Happy "Let's Keep Using X" to all those who celebrate.
French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)
November 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Read this fascinating, chilling account by Alexandra Prokopenko of @carnegierussia.bsky.social on how effective Moscow's tactics are to add political opponents to its terrorist list. #TransnationalRepression
carnegieendowment.org/russia-euras...
The Kremlin Has Weaponized Western Financial Checks to Punish Russian Dissidents
International compliance and anti-money laundering standards are currently formulated in such a way that the Western financial system does not differentiate between Russian political prisoners and ISIS militants.
carnegieendowment.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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I am overjoyed to announce that the English translation (masterfully done by Catriona Corke) of my book on chauvinism (not only) in Russia is now available @politybooks.bsky.social .

#Russia #Ukraine #Putin #dictatorship #sexism #feminism #war

www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
The Chauvinist Threat: Russia's War and the West's Response
The Chauvinist Threat: Russia's War and the West's Response, An internationally renowned expert on Russia and Eastern Europe with decades of experience in EU-Russia relations, Fischer enriches her ana...
www.politybooks.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Sehr traurig ist das.
Der langjährigen Feuilleton-Korrespondentin der FAZ, Kerstin Holm, ist die Einreise nach Russland verweigert worden. In ihrem bedrückenden Bericht beschreibt sie die kafkaeske Szene am Moskauer Flughafen Wnukowo...
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Symbolisch.
Dieter Bohlen bezeichnet Deutschland und Russland in einem Interview als ein „Dream Team“, das „bisschen wie Modern Talking“ sei. Wenn man bedenkt, wie groß heute die Abneigung zwischen Bohlen und Anders ist, dann war es dann wohl mit der deutsch-russischen Freundschaft.
November 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
FWIW, pre-2022 the Russian-backed separatists in Donetsk repeatedly blamed Ukraine for organizing such "safaris" – w/o evidence. Serb mercenary Dejan Beric repeated these claims last week on Russian TV: crimea-news.com/other/2025/1...
November 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Cloudflare Says It Has Resolved Outage That Disrupted Parts of the Internet www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/b...
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Twitter ("X") is down due to a Cloudflare outage. How exciting.
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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A rather new framing for EU enlargement - not only with a focus on security (that has been there for a while), to be gained not primarily by exporting EU stability but by importing military strength into the EU.
Kaja Kallas at the first EU Enlargement Forum in Bruxelles: Ukraine has the strongest army in Europe, so taking Ukraine in the EU means being defended by the best army on the continent
November 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I guess Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is a Democrat too
Trump on if he'll sign an Epstein files release bill: "We have nothing to do with Epstein. The Democrats do. All of his friends were Democrats. You look at this Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, Clinton... all I want is I want for people to recognize the great job I've done on pricing, on affordability."
November 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Deutsch­land und Europa tun sich immer noch schwer, aus der Bedro­hung durch Moskau die rich­ti­gen Schlüsse zu ziehen. Bei der diesjährigen @libmod.de-Podi­ums­dis­kus­sion „Russ­land und der Westen“ wurden dringende Handlungsempfehlungen genannt:
russlandverstehen.eu/de/russland-...
„Wir dürfen Russland nicht erlauben zu siegen"
Im vierten Jahr nach der russischen Großinvasion in die Ukraine tun sich Deutschland und Europa immer noch schwer, aus der Bedrohung durch Moskau die richtigen Schlüsse zu ziehen. Bei der diesjährigen...
russlandverstehen.eu
November 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Outside the French embassy in Kyiv on the morning after the 13 November 2015 attacks in Paris.
November 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Jetzt in der Jenaer Rathausdiele: Unsere deutsch-polnische Diskussion „Herausforderung Russland“. Mit @ervitz.bsky.social, @umland.bsky.social, @emesef.bsky.social und Marko Martin.
November 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Mehr als die Hälfte (55%) der Russinnen und Russen wären dagegen, dass ihre nahen Verwandten in den Krieg gegen die Ukraine ziehen. Nur etwa 30% wären dafür, hat eine neue Lewada-Umfrage ergeben. Soziologen sehen darin eine wachsende Kriegsmüdigkeit in Russland.
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Für Kurzentschlossene – heute Abend um 1800 Uhr in der Rathausdiele #Jena!
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM