Francesco Giartosio 🇺🇦 🇬🇪

I worked as an employee and manager until I was 49, then got tempted by the startup world. It's tough, I hope I'll be successful.

[Mariano Giustino @MarianoGiustino]

#Yerevan: questa notte a piazza della Repubblica, con gli armeni che ballano per la gioia.

@RadioRadicale #Armenia

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

ZELENSKYY: I sent Putin a letter — an open letter — because I don’t know whether he will read it or not. An open letter means he has to answer to us, and — more importantly — to his own society.

Russian society lives in a fantasy world where they believe they didn’t attack anyone, that this is not their aggressive war, and that they are simply defending some Russian-speaking people.

I mean, it’s not serious. For me, it's very important to speak openly and show exactly where we stand. They have closed the internet and blocked many other channels of information.

We have very few ways left to send signals to this country — the aggressor country that brought this large-scale war to our land. They must stop.

[Salome Zourabichvili @Zourabichvili_S]

Armenia your fight is our fight, these elections will determine your democratic european future. We stand with you! 🇦🇲🇬🇪✊

[Mariano Giustino @MarianoGiustino]

Ecco la mia corrispondenza di questa mattina 6 giugno 2026, in onda su @RadioRadicale, assolutamente da non perdere, sul significato dell'importanza del voto in #Armenia:
- Questo fine settimana l'attenzione della regione sarà rivolta all'Armenia, dove il primo ministro Nikol #Pashinyan si candida per un terzo mandato in un'elezione parlamentare che si è trasformata in un referendum cruciale sulla direzione geopolitica di #Yerevan.
@RadioRadicale si è recata sul posto per realizzare un reportage sul significato di questo voto per l’Unione europea, la #Turchia, la #Russia e l'intera regione del Caucaso meridionale.
- Cosa c'è da sapere. Una netta vittoria di Pashinyan potrebbe accelerare la normalizzazione dei rapporti tra #Turchia e #Armenia, il processo di pace tra Armenia e #Azerbaigian e i piani di connettività sostenuti dall'Occidente nel #Caucaso meridionale, comprese le rotte che collegano #Europa e #Asia, aggirando #Russia e #Iran.
- La questione cruciale non è semplicemente se Pashinyan vincerà, ma se otterrà una maggioranza parlamentare sufficiente per far approvare un referendum costituzionale che consentirebbe la storica pace con Azerbaigian e la normalizzazione con la Turchia. Tale esito plasmerebbe non solo il futuro dell'Armenia, ma anche l'apertura della Turchia al Caucaso meridionale.
- Dobbiamo comprendere che il Caucaso meridionale sta iniziando a liberarsi di alcuni degli appellativi negativi che lo hanno accompagnato per anni. Non è più "dilaniato dai conflitti" o "turbolento", è, al giorno d'oggi, persino il contrario.
- Questa è ora una regione tra i conflitti altrui, e meno definita dai propri.
- Quando i confini chiusi tra Armenia e Azerbaigian e tra Armenia e Turchia saranno finalmente riaperti, il Caucaso meridionale si trasformerà da ostacolo in un crocevia, una via di transito e di collegamento tra Est e Ovest.
- Perché abbiamo ritenuto importante venire in Armenia? Perché in un'epoca in cui la multipolarità ha sostituito il multilateralismo, questa regione si configura come una sorta di laboratorio per un nuovo tipo di politica transazionale esercitata dai piccoli Stati.
- Badate bene che l'idea che la regione sia bipolare, intrappolata in uno scontro binario tra Russia e Occidente, non è più valida oggi, se non nella mente degli strateghi del Cremlino. Il Caucaso meridionale è piuttosto un mercato geopolitico. L'Unione Europea, la Cina, gli Stati del Golfo, l'India, la Turchia e gli Stati Uniti sono tutti presenti qui, in questa regione. In questo scenario affollato, la Russia è ormai solo una tra tante.
Buon ascolto!

[Timur Kuran @timurkuran]

Don’t underestimate the chances of Turkey following Hungary’s example. Erdoğan’s attempt to control his opposition through a puppet is backfiring. The ejected opposition leader is pulling record-breaking crowds.

[Pina Picierno @pinapic]

Da oggi nasce Spazio Pubblico: un movimento aperto, europeista, democratico. Non una corrente, non un’etichetta, uno spazio per tutti quelli che credono ancora che libertà, diritti e giustizia sociale siano il futuro, non il passato.

Serve una proposta seria, riformista, pragmatica. Per chi produce, chi investe, chi innova, chi crea lavoro. Per chi vuole un’Europa libera, forte, giusta e un’Italia che non sia condannata alla perpetua irrilevanza.

Spazio Pubblico nasce per unire i liberi e i forti, per riunire coloro che lottano contro i populismi, le oligarchie e i profeti di sventura.

Adesso tocca davvero a noi.
Aderite e costruiamo insieme un’Italia e un’Europa protagonista.

👉 Aderisci a Spazio Pubblico: https://t.co/8ZBQrQX8PZ

Seguiti qui su X : @s_pubblico

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

At 4am, Senate Republicans gave the greenlight for the IRS to drop ALL investigations into Trump and his family.

That means if Trump is evading taxes, we’ll never know.

I have a bill to make this illegal. And I won’t stop fighting to get it done.

[Sandro Gozi @sandrogozi]

Pina Picierno ha avuto il coraggio di affermare una verità che molti vedono e pochi osano dire. La vera divisione oggi non è tra destra e sinistra: è tra chi vuole un’Europa potenza e chi resta prigioniero di populismi. È tempo di costruire una grande forza europea di governo.

[Regina Bauer 🇪🇪🇺🇦 @petite_michelle]

The GDP comparison shows what they took from our economy. Here's what russians took that can't go in a spreadsheet.
Start with what Estonia was in 1939: a functioning European democracy, fifteen years old, with its own constitution, parliament, currency, university, literature, and officer corps. A small country that had built its institutions from scratch and was making it work. That is the thing they set out to destroy. Systematically. With lists.
June 14, 1941. They came at night, because they always came at night.
Around 10,000 Estonians were loaded into cattle cars in a single coordinated operation — executed across the country in hours. The method was deliberate: men were separated from their families at the freight-car doors. Men to labour camps in Siberia. Women, children, the elderly to "special settlements" — places with no infrastructure, no food, no medicine, dropped there and left. Most of the men were dead within eighteen months.
The people they took were not criminals. They were the Estonian state. Officers who had served in the Republic's military. Civil servants. Judges. Teachers. Farmers who owned land. Politicians. Their families.
Eight years later they came back for more.
March 25–28, 1949. Operation Priboi. In 72 hours, roughly 20,700 Estonians were deported — around 90,000 across the three Baltic states. The targets this time were farmers who refused to join collective farms, and families of men who had joined the Forest Brothers resistance. Again: children were in those cars. Grandmothers. Newborns.
Meanwhile, some 70,000 Estonians had already fled to Sweden and the West in 1944 rather than face the second Soviet occupation — most of them educated, professional, the people who run a country. The leadership class was gone. What remained was being systematically removed.
By 1950, Estonia had lost between a fifth and a quarter of its entire pre-war population. You cannot rebuild an officer corps, a judicial culture, an academic tradition, from nothing, in ten years. That damage ran deep and ran long.
And while Estonians were being emptied out, the replacement was being shipped in.
Soviet resettlement was not coincidental migration — it was policy. Factories were built specifically to draw Russian workers. Housing was allocated. Russian was imposed as the language of administration, of higher education, of any career worth having. The message was explicit: assimilate or be left behind. By 1989, ethnic Estonians were 61% of their own country. Latvians were 52% of Latvia. Nations that had been 85–90% of their own homelands in 1934 had been diluted to bare majorities — in two generations, by design.
This is the population Moscow is now presenting to the International Court of Justice as a persecuted minority. People who moved to Estonia under a Soviet resettlement programme specifically engineered to erase Estonians.
The occupation created the imbalance. The occupation ended. We are now expected to answer for the imbalance in The Hague.
We remember who came in those cattle cars. We remember who came after. And we know exactly what both groups were sent here to do. 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Unboxing a humanoid robot shipped from China in Malaysia makes the future feel weirdly close 🤖

[Mariano Giustino @MarianoGiustino]

ULTIM'ORA: 📢 Prosegue la marcia del presidente generale del #CHP #ÖzgürÖzel verso #Anıtkabir insieme ai membri del suo partito e a decine di migliaia di persone che si sono unite alla marcia. Lungo il percorso gli abitanti dai balconi e dalle finistre stanno dando supporto ai marciatori gridando: “#İmamoğlu Presidente!” Sta marciando anche il sindaco di Ankara #MansurYavaş.
Aggiornamenti a breve...

@RadioRadicale #Turchia

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

🇷🇴 President Nicușor Dan: We had serious incident last night in which two Romanian citizens were injured. Entire responsibility for this incident lies with Russia.

Consul General of Russia in Constanța has been declared persona non grata, and Consulate General will be closed.

[Takeshi Kovacs @PrzemekShura]

Takie systemy antydrnowe powinny być jak najszybciej wdrażane w Polsce i dostarczane do jednostek. To najtańszy sposób neutralizowania zagrożeń powietrznych..
Na filmie ukraiński mały interceptor - dron Sting (Wild Hornet) czy P1-Sun raz nakierowany cel, sam dalej podąża za nim...
ceny: od 1 do 2,5 tys USD.

[MercuryMarin(er)Strade @MarinStrade]

.@sashameetsrus, you’re like 5 years old and have Instagram brainrot, so let an old crank with two degrees in Russian (and East European) Studies who was actually alive during the time of the USSR lay some learnin’ on you.

In 1991, when the USSR collapsed, those of us who were fascinated by it were ecstatic, not because we hated it, but because we were SO EAGER to meet our russian, Kazakh, Uzbek, Georgian, Ukrainian (and so on) brothers and sisters.

For much of my life, I had been told that citizens of the USSR were just like us - they wanted homes and jobs and food.

But more importantly, they wanted freedom - freedom to move about their own country without control, freedom to travel abroad, to speak freely and write freely without being thrown into a gulag. Famous defectors like Baryshnikov only reinforced to all of us that the USSR was filled with wonderful, talented people who were essentially imprisoned in their own nation.

Sure, of course our leaders, governments and hardcore ideologues on both sides still had beef, still plotted, but even Reagan and Gorbachev (as well as Bush Sr.) cultivated a relationship based on trust and mutual respect.

Yes, I get that the breakup of the USSR was traumatic for many of those who lived in it. Yes, I acknowledge that the 1990’s were very hard for the average citizen of all former Soviet Republics.

But here’s the thing, Sasha. It was hard for Poland and Ukraine and Hungary and East Germany and really hard for the former Yugoslavia too. Every single former Republic and Iron Curtain country came out from under the yoke of the USSR and faced ENORMOUS social, cultural, economic, civil, judicial and military challenges.

35 years later though, which country is the only one left prosecuting bloody, genocidal wars, wasting lives and materiel, and truly squandering its prolific natural resources to kill Ukrainian children?

Which country is the only one cutting off the internet for its citizens, the same way it did for books and tv and radio during the time of the USSR?

Which country can’t get its
shit together and join the rest of the civilized - albeit imperfect - world?

Your precious russia.

Russia marinates in the past. It bathes in bitterness. It is the equivalent of a high school quarterback who never left its small shitty town and sits in a bar drinking to drunkenness cursing out his more successful classmates and picking fights.

It’s a place where children fall into potholes in Yakutsk so big they’re swallowed up but hey, dumb Oligarch bitches in Moscow need more Gucci and a house in Geneva so fuck them kids amirite?

That’s why nobody wants to engage with russia, Sasha.

Russia is a mean, ugly bully who won’t keep its military in its pants towards its own former peoples, who constantly threatens its neighbors, and just will not let the “glorious past” go when in fact the rest of the world just wants to get on with things in their own messed-up countries, drink coffee, try to go to Mars, etc.

One of my favorite songs growing up was Billy Joel’s “Leningrad”. Man, I wore that tape out listening to it. It’s one of his lesser-known songs, but it captivated me so much so that 8 years later, I myself would land in Leningrad, by then renamed to St. Petersburg.

While there, I met so many wonderful people, people just like me who had dreams of being singers or hairdressers or accountants (ew). But what the young people wanted most of all was to MOVE FORWARD.

It’s 2026, and russians once again find themselves imprisoned by their own government, cut off from the world, and forced to engage in a pointless fucking war.

I miss the promise of Leningrad, and you should too, instead of stanning a murderous dictatorship.

“And so my child and I came to this place
To meet him eye to eye and face to face
He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced
We never knew what friends we had
Until we came to Leningrad”
— Billy Joel

[Francesco Giartosio 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @Franko]

@khodorkovsky_en Couldn't there be a revolt from some eastern province, I mean not the people but the local governments?

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

Your reminder that when Khamenei was sent to hell, all of Iran celebrated.

The internet was then cut for 3 months because the regime couldn't let the world see how hated they are.

There is no hatred like what Iranians feel towards this rotten dictatorship.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Former MI6 Chief Richard Moore: Straightforward example of Russia, backed by China, challenging West is in Ukraine. This is most blatant challenge to international order since World War II. We need to ensure Putin doesn’t succeed. And without China, Russia would've already lost.

[Marco Setaccioli @marsetac]

Grazie a @LucaBizzarri e Paolo. Soprattutto la faccia di Di Battista quando viene nominato vale l’attesa

[Mariano Giustino @MarianoGiustino]

#Erdoğan sta dando fuoco alla democrazia in #Turchia, ma la popolazione non ci sta. Guardate la folla oceanica che ha invaso il Kordon di #Izmir. Si è raccolta attorno al leader dell'opposizione defenestrato dalla magistratura turca eterodiretta dal presidente della Repubblica.
Seguite qui, minuto dopo minuto quel che accade in queste ore in Turchia.
@RadioRadicale

[Mariano Giustino @MarianoGiustino]

L'Unione europea non deve commettere con la #Turchia di #Erdoğan lo stesso errore che ha commesso con la #Russia di #Putin. Dovrebbe mostrare al presidente turco una reazione pesante, dura. #Bruxelles deve trattare Erdoğan per quello che è realmente: un leader politico che sta macellando la democrazia in Turchia. Finora le reazioni di Bruxelles sono state molto tiepide.

@RadioRadicale