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Vucic says he’ll “come back” and “defeat” his opponents.
But he may face trial first.
#Serbia
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While the lion's share of shipping along the route is Russian energy exports, other nations are also dipping their toes in the chilly waters.
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"That is a good example of one of our main messages: that less ice doesn't mean easier navigation," Ksenia Vakhrusheva, head of the Arctic project at Lithuania-based environmental group Bellona, told RFE/RL.
ALT File photo /TASS
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A group of sanctioned Russian tankers dropped anchor some 1,300 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle in July after getting stuck and hunkered down for a long wait in the frozen waters at the top of the world. Help from two nuclear-powered ice breakers was several days' voyage away.
The ships were stuck in the Vilkitsky Strait. ⬇️
Russia moved record oil volumes along the arctic seas to China this year. But the route is difficult and not hitting cargo targets.
In July, tankers waited weeks for help from nuclear-powered ice breakers and even then, only one made it through
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WATCH!! “What happened last night I don’t know exactly” — Rubio tells me he can’t confirm reports that Kyiv received no early warning before Russian ballistic missiles struck Kyiv overnight, citing a lack of information.
He acknowledged a separate early-warning system software issue days earlier, but said the U.S. has not changed its diplomatic footprint in Kyiv
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I was grateful for the chance to discuss a number of critical issues, including evolving relations among Russia, China, and Iran - and the emergence of global shadow war, with @rayfurlong @RFERL rferl.org/amp/russia-shadow-…
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Russia's shadow campaign of drone incursions, sabotage, and assassination attempts in NATO countries has largely backfired by drawing a resolute response but is approaching a "crucial point," Christopher Walker, vice president of the Center for European Policy Analysis, tells RFE/RL. @rayfurlong rferl.org/a/russia-shadow-wa…
Russia's shadow war has partially backfired but is now at a crucial point and “bound to intensify,” says @Walker_CT
He also discusses "unimaginable" levels of cooperation between Russia and China:
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A former Yandex exec said 80 percent of Russia's data centers are located in Moscow and the surrounding Moscow region.
“So, of course, strikes there will continue.”
From financial services to dating apps, disruption has been widespread
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Four years after the Nord Stream gas pipeline was blown up, the case is coming to court with the trial of a former military officer allegedly working for “state authorities in Ukraine.” The attack has been classified as a war crime.
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"It is hard to believe that, after Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, a German court should hold a war crimes trial against a Ukrainian serviceman," a lawyer connected to the case told @RFERL
Evidence of Ukrainian involvement in the Nord Stream attack could "strengthen the AfD's argumentation against support for Ukraine," said @meistefan1
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Four years after the Nord Stream explosions, a German trial could shed new light on who was behind them.
Prosecutors allege Ukrainian suspects acted "on behalf of state authorities." Kyiv denies involvement.
By @rayfurlong
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Montenegro To Expel Head Of Russian Pro-War Blog Rybar rferl.org/a/russian-pro-war-…
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From physical threats to digital intimidation, authoritarian regimes are pursuing dissidents far beyond their borders. Dissidents from Iran and Russia told their stories to @RFERL emphasizing the dangerous reach of transnational repression.
Read more from @rayfurlong: rferl.org/a/iran-russia-targ…
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The goal of #transnationalrepression isn't always to physically harm dissidents. Often, it's to make them afraid to speak out at all.
Freedom House's @gorokhovskaia explains to @REFRL's @rayfurlong how surveillance, threats, and intimidation can silence critics even thousands of miles from home.
An Iranian exile reports a break-in at his home in Canada with a warning driven home by a kitchen knife.
A Russian living in Germany feels "a kind of paranoia" about his security.
Daily life for exiles in apparently safe Western countries.
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Mikhail Klimaryov fled Russia to escape political persecution and now lives in Germany, but says he is still not safe.
The constant pressure from Kremlin agents has, he says, driven him to "a kind of paranoia" about his security.
An Iranian exile reports a break-in at his home in Canada with a warning driven home by a kitchen knife.
A Russian living in Germany feels "a kind of paranoia" about his security.
Daily life for exiles in apparently safe Western countries.
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'Psychological War': Exiled Russian Activist Describes How Kremlin Targets Critics Abroad
Mikhail Klimaryov fled Russia to escape political persecution and now lives in Germany, but says he is still not safe. The constant pressure from Kremlin agents has, he says, driven him to "a kind of paranoia" about his security. ⬇️