❗️EU parliamentarians call to immediately allow Navalny’s medical treatment & release him from prison as mandated by ECHR. We urge the EU Ambassador to Russia together w Ambassadors of the US, UK & Canada visit
@navalny
in prison facility.
#FreeNavalny
It took 3️⃣ days for Lithuanians to collect 5 mln euros to buy
#Bayraktar
for
#Ukraine
. Proud to be Lithuanian!
🇱🇹🤝🇺🇦
Hope to see Germans and French people to do the same. It’s more important than Scholz and Macron never ending phone calls to Putin!
It is high time to propose
@Ukraine
an accelerated integration process with the accession to the EU Single Market as a first step towards full EU integration!
Strong and able to defend itself, Ukraine will deter Kremlin aggression.
That is why the West must invest in the political, military, and economic success of
#Ukraine
.
Listen to
@KubiliusA
, former Prime Minister of Lithuania👇
We
#StandWithUkraine
Political prisoner & leader of opposition Alexey Navalny is awarded
#SakharovPrize
by the European Parliament for his devotion to democracy & freedom of the Russian people! Your couse is our cause! Hope to see Alexey soon & congratulate in person!
@navalny
#freeNavalny
About the terrorists: Gadaffi used to blow up Western civilian planes, Lukashenka hijacks them. The end will be similar - either judgement by a mob, or justice by way of international tribunal. The latter would be safer.
2/3 Eliminating opposition candidates from the race, persecuting free media, prohibiting “smart voting” terminology, introducing 3-days long voting, not allowing OSCE international observers to come and to observe elections, - shows how afraid Kremlin is of the Russian people.
3/3 Big contrast with neighboring Ukraine, where they are not afraid to have transparent & fair elections! If elections in Lithuania or any other EU MS would be organized in such a shameful way, like it was done in Russia, those “elections” would be called illegitimate ones.
The Kremlin’s revenge on Navalny’s associates - Lilia Chanysheva, opposition activist, is arrested on “extremism” charges. Young woman, recently married and pregnant, now faces 10 years of prison under Kremlin’s specially created law.
Andrei Sakharov founded the
@MemorialMoscow
more than 30 yrs ago because he clearly understood that new democratic Russia is not possible without Russia coming to terms with soviet past crimes. Today the Kremlin decided to liquidate the Memorial. It is sad day for Russia.
On orders of Lukashenka, BAF fighter-jets hijacked
#Ryanair
plane w 123 passengers on board. Roman
#Protasevich
must be freed immediately!
#UNSC
&
#EUCO
have to respond to this state terorism act against
#EU
citizens & company, defend intl. law.
Chinese authorities destroying democracy in Hong Kong to the end. As Putin in Russia or Lukashenka in Belarus. Democracies of the World must unite to defend people’s right to choose. Only weak leaders like Putin or Lukashenka are afraid of people’s choice. Is Xi Jinping similar?
News of mass disqualifications of democrats taking place today in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong government have today disenfranchised the majority of the population by barring the representatives who receive the lion's share of the vote.
Mr. PUTIN, YOU LOST THIS WAR!!!
Kyiv is defended; weapons to
@Ukraine
- coming!
SWIFT, freezing of oligarchs’ assets, no high tech, no flights and no planes in Russia - done, embargo on oil and gas - soon!
Take a good look at evidence of genocide in
#Bucha
& other towns. This is “russkyi mir” that Putin dreams to bring also to Baltic States, Poland and up to Berlin. Call urgent
@EUCouncil
to impose Russian oil/gas embargo & provide weapons UA needs to defend themselves & us.
Russia - is not only Putin.
Enjoyed participating in the 1st Convent of Free Russians.
#FreeRussians
, united under ⚪️🔵⚪️ flag are actively fighting against Putin’s war in Ukraine, helping 🇺🇦 refugees, bringing closer democratic future of Russia.
🇱🇹🤝🇹🇼Welcome
#Taiwan
in
#Lithuania
! Looking forward to developing all possible ties, despite that some big neighbors are very angry! That is their big mistake!
@TW_in_LT
@EPPGroup
calls on the
#EU
and its Member States to not recognise 2021 September vote in
#Russia
. This was not an election. Russians were robbed of the possibility to have a say and freely choose their country’s destiny.
Big week in Taiwan: My heartfelt congratulations for President Tsai
@iingwen
and people of 🇹🇼on inauguration! Taiwan - democracy and effective fight against
#COVID19
!
@WHO
without Taiwan???
Lukashenko started last year w detention of Babaryka, Tsikhanouskij, Kalesnikava & ended it with a single question: when he will be kicked out. Putin starts this year w detention of
@navalny
. He will end it with a similar question. Putin is a delayed Lukashenko.
#Freedom2Navalny
Belarus revolution & Navalny are two factors that may lead 23 January protests to further popular upheaval in Russia. Levada polls in 2019 showed 59% of Russians want change. Once the silent majority will see it is a majority, no arrests persecution or harrasment will stop it.
@Ukraine
is winning this war. Their military is strongest in entire democratic Europe. They lack guns but have plenty of human willpower.
Not Ukraine, but NATO should ask democratic, European Ukraine to join NATO. Because NATO will be much stronger with Ukraine as NATO Member!
SANCTIONS UNTIL LAST OCCUPIER LEAVES!
Putin will lose this war. What terms of his capitulation?🇷🇺soldiers will have to leave not just Kherson, Mariupol, or Chernobyl, but also Donetsk, Luhansk, and Crimea. Only then can today’s economic sanctions be lifted.
4️⃣ actions plan how to resolve “Belarus crisis”:
- International tribunal for Lukashenka now!;
- “Belarusian sanctions” on Putin;
- Biden’s pressure on Putin;
- Western personal leadership.
Źyvie Belarus!
CAN UKRAINE BECOME EU MEMBER ALREADY THIS YEAR?
Is it possible to apply special procedures for Ukraine integration?
Integration of Eastern Germany (DDR) into EU in 1990 under a special procedure took less then a year.
Navalny’s Smart Vote application removed from
@Google
&
@Apple
stores. Corporations should not help the Kremlin in suppressing democratic opposition & freedom of vote.
Events in
#Georgia
put democracy in crisis, which makes only Kremlin happy. There will be no Georgian winners of that conflict. Lack of strategic responsibility on both sides pushes Georgia towards doubts on its euroatlantic future. It’s time to stop backslide of Georgia.
@V_Milov
did an excellent job in investigating how Gazprom manipulated the EU gas market.
Why gas supplies are reduced and what
#Kremlin
tries to achieve with that. Facts & figures:
@MartensCentre
How Gazprom manipulated the EU gas market: reduced gas supplies to Europe on the background of huge gas & capacity surplus. Facts & figures in my blog post for
@MartensCentre
- a snapshot of a more detailed report yet to be published:
During 1st month of war, EU paid 20 bln 💵 for oil/gas into Putin’s pockets. Its 3.5 times more than in 2020, and 3.5 times more than annual military budget of Russia. We can reduce it by 70%.Embargo on oil IS possible and NOT painful for 🇪🇺. Do it NOW!👇
Dictator-terrorist is a threat to all. Today he hijacks planes, next he may blow up nuclear power plant. Lukashenka must be tried in tribunal, regime assets must be found and seized. Sanctions for the terrorist dictatorship must be the same as US 9/11 anti-terrorist sanctions.
If Putin will recognize “independence” of Donbass, that will mean not only the death of Minsk & Normandy, but also annexation of Ukrainian teritories. The West will need to immediately implement all the most harsh sanctions, prepared for invasion.
Putin is mad. He will loose the war against
@Ukraine
and the West.
This is the beginning of the end of Putin’s regime.
There will be many victims, but at the end there will be Russia without Putin.
Слава Україні!
My 7-point action plan for
#Belarus
: illegitimate Lukashenka; new elections; freedom to polit. prisoners; int’l. inquiry into OMON crimes;
#EU
sanctions; EU support;
#sakharovprize
for Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya. More on that:
The only really valid Kremlin proposal on European security would be its decision to allow Russian nation to transform the country back to democracy. Europe whole, free and at peace - this is security formula for the continent.
What EU needs to do NOW (1/2):
- SWIFT sanctions on Russian banks;
- full embargo on
#Russian
gas and oil supplies to EU;
- full stop of Russian commercial flights over EU territory and full stop of European overflights over Russian territory;