Government censorship of the media is the "preferred weapon of choice" of autocrats around the world.
Free speech rights are "often the first 'domino' to fall when countries autocratize."
And V-Dem says America is "rapidly autocratizing."
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Four years
It is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
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Thousands of people took to the streets of Riga to protest the threat of Latvia’s right-wing parties withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention, which aims to prevent violence against women and domestic abuse.
Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings
Rob Reiner at the No Kings protest in Santa Monica after an agitator demanding violence confronted him and the police took him away. Part 3
#nokings
Rob Reiner at the No Kings protest in Santa Monica skillfully diffusing an agitator getting into his face demanding violence. SMPD arrived to peacefully detain the agitator. Part 2
#nokings
Rob Reiner at the No Kings protest in Santa Monica confronted by an agitator demanding violence. Part 1
#nokings
All we want to do in Santa Monica is dance!
#nokings
#santamonica
#nofascism
Hence . . . Krasnov.
⚡️ Estonia slammed Angela Merkel for implying that Poland and the Baltic states helped trigger Russia’s war against Ukraine.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 Zelensky: I held a meeting with Prime Minister of Lithuania – this is her first foreign visit, and it is very meaningful that it is to Ukraine.
We discussed continued defense assistance, joint weapons production, and investments in Ukraine’s defense industry. Energy sector.
⚡️Lithuania's Vilnius airport closed in response to airspace violation, media reports.
Lithuania's main airport was closed late on Oct. 4 following a sighting of 13 "contraband" balloons flying towards the site, Lithuanian outlet LRT reported.
Thousands of cultural workers protested across Lithuania on Sunday after the culture minister’s portfolio in the newly formed government was handed to a populist party whose leader has been accused of anti-Semitism.
Explosives hidden in corn cans — Russia planned sabotage in Poland, Lithuania, and Germany.
A suspected GRU courier was told to dig them up in Lithuania and drop them near Łódź.
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⚡️Lithuania will not open airspace near the border with Belarus until December, Minister of Defense told BNS.
Good thinking.
Western officials do not know why Russia has ramped up its poking and prodding. Some allies believe that recent incidents in Poland and Estonia were accidental, a function of Russian sloppiness rather than malfeasance, though Poland strongly disagrees
Ukraine war briefing: Estonia warns of Putin distraction tactics as EU leaders meet to discuss ‘drone wall’
Estonian leader Kristen Michal says Putin wants Europe ‘talking about ourselves, not Ukraine’ ahead of meeting in Copenhagen. What we know on day 1,316
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ruzzia : we didn’t fly fighter jets loaded with missiles for 12 minutes and 100 km into your territory.
Estonia: pulls out pictures of radar and fighter jets loaded with missiles flying 12’minutes 100 km deep in Estonias territory
ruZZia is a terrorist state
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Lithuania 🇱🇹 to host Ukrainian children for rehabilitation after their return from russia
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READ!! Lithuania’s ex-Top Diplomat: 👇🏻
“Russia escalates, we do nothing,
Russia escalates more, we do nothing,
Russia escalates even more, we do nothing...
guys, I think I am starting to see a pattern here.”
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Lithuania invests 15 million euros in the recovery of Ukraine's most valuable resource — its people
Lithuania is not only next to Ukraine on the front lines. A true friend and reliable partner invests in our future, in the strength and resilience of people affected by the war....
💬 Lithuania’s Defense Minister Dovile Šakalienė: NATO must take Russian air provocations seriously.
Citing Turkey’s downing of a Russian Su-24 in 2015, she warned that NATO’s northeastern border is being deliberately tested.
🇺🇸🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪 In late August, Pentagon officials told European diplomats the US would cut some security aid to Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia and urged Europe to be less reliant on Washington, - Reuters
🔴 Estonia’s Defense Forces released the flight path of Russian MiG-31 jets that crossed into its airspace on September 19.
The fighters entered near Väinloo Island without clearance, stayed 12 minutes, had no flight plans, and flew with transponders switched off.
NATO was ready to 'use force' against Russia, Estonia says after airspace incursion
"We saw on Friday that NATO is functioning very efficiently... even to the point that if we were truly forced to use the last resort, which is the use of force, then there was a readiness for t...
A fragment of a Russian drone was found after washing up on a beach in western Latvia, the country’s military reported on Friday.
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Lithuania's aid to Ukraine exceeds EUR 1.7 bln – Sybiha #Ukraine
