🇭🇺👀 Orban is massively buying votes in Hungary's poorest regions.
This is revealed in a large-scale investigation, "The Price of a Vote," jointly conducted by six independent Hungarian projects.
Party representatives are traveling to villages and offering local residents $150-$170 per vote.
Local mayors are promising firewood, medicine, part-time jobs, and transportation to the polls for the "right" vote, and threatening those who refuse.
The campaign is reaching 600,000 voters (approximately 10% of the entire Hungarian electorate).
Journalists collected info from 60 people from 14 different communities, including ordinary citizens, officials, and security forces.
@SenMullin This is one of many real stories behind the USCIS pause.
A young woman with a job offer in the U.S. is now unable to work, lost her housing, and is living with a friend. She recently discovered a breast lump—but cannot afford diagnosis or treatment without work authorization and insurance.
She cannot return home. She cannot move forward. She is simply stuck.
People who followed every rule should not face this kind of hardship.
#LiftTheHold #USCISPause #LegalImmigration
Truly unbelievable scenes from Georgia 🇬🇪
Hundreds of thousands of Georgians formed a chain of unity across the country expressing their unwavering determination to defend Georgia’s democracy and a European future.
It's quite revealing that on this so-called "free speech platform," you can praise Hitler, spread lies, use bots, threaten others with violence & even post CSAM.
However, the moment you criticize Elon's businesses, you're immediately suspended & flagged as a "spam account."
Once again we are looking into the longest night of the calendar year.
Even slowly, the light WILL return and to me Yalda Night represents the belief, that nothing is forever shrouded in darkness.
I wish all my Iranian friends a blessed Yalda Night.
🇺🇦 Ukraine has already paid a price for its independence that @elonmusk can't even begin to comprehend.
His attempt at mockery only exposes him as a morally worthless human being.
❗️❗️❗️ Georgian Dream thugs tried to break into the central office of the United National Movement Party. This is not the first case of violence. Mobilized groups in the capital and regions are physically beating opposition representatives, observers and voters.
Today’s election in Georgia isn’t just a vote — it’s a crossroads. Will Georgia move closer to the EU or deepen ties with Russia?
"Georgian Dream", the current ruling party, is a party of contradictions; they led Georgia towards finally receiving EU candidate status in 2023 and their campaign promises include EU membership, yet they also espouse typical Kremlin narratives. The party’s founder, oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili, who stepped away from party leadership when he became a Russian citizen, yet still actively participates in political life, alluded the opposition were “Western puppets”, and said they will bring war and ruin to Georgia.
But Russian influence is evident not only in the words, but also in the actions of the ruling party, signaling what’s to come if they get re-elected:
◾️This year, "Georgian Dream" cracked down on civil society and independent media by introducing the controversial “foreign agents” bill, modeled after a similar legislation in Russia. Despite widespread protests, the bill was signed into law.
◾️We can already see the results in this electoral campaign – the last few months were marked by reports of illegal searches in the offices of several media outlets and the homes of journalists and civil society activists by the Georgian security services.
◾️Appealing to older, more conservative parts of Georgia, the current government also decided to follow the Kremlin’s lead and ban “LGBT propaganda”. This legislative initiative caused outrage among liberal Georgians and the country’s European partners.
◾️Because of these two laws, the EU froze the accession process with Georgia.
There is strong resistance to these laws from Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili, pro-European parties and ordinary Georgians. "Georgian Dream" has the chances to win the majority of the vote, but thanks to a new electoral law, any party that reaches 5% will get seats in the Parliament, and the opposition has already discussed forming a broad coalition to oppose the pro-Russian course.
However, much like we have seen in Moldova last week, Moscow is willing to expend enormous resources to make Georgia subservient to Russia.
Whether the Kremlin is using its typical “false flag” tactic to cause disturbances, influence people’s voting decisions, or prepare the grounds for provocations in the case of the unlikely loss of "Georgian Dream", one thing is clear – they want to use this election day to the fullest to bring Tbilisi closer to Moscow.
Observing this election for the past several weeks, we have seen "Georgian Dream" use Ukraine as a cautionary tale for its voters, trying to cultivate an image of the “party of peace”. For them, peace means rapprochement with Russia, even if it comes at the cost of Georgia's European aspirations.
We in Ukraine know very well that where there is Russia, there is no peace, only war and suffering. Many Georgians are very well aware of this too; the 2008 Russian invasion is still fresh in the minds of many who will cast their votes today. We stand with free Georgia.
Source: https://t.co/FzSn8jvYWn
📹- Tbilisi, mass clash at polling station #60 between supporters of the pro-Russian "Georgian Dream" party and observers
Another Russian serviceman testifies about the "nullifications" in the Russian army. The commander "Pioneer" has a couple of people with him who, at his command, search for and "nullify" soldiers, primarily for refusing to participate in the meat-grinder assaults.
This is happening in the 21st century in front of the whole world.
Russia has no future if this war is not lost, – Garry Kasparov.
The grandmaster and founder of the Free Russia Forum is convinced that the only chance for Russia to become a civilized state is that it must withdraw from Ukraine, return the territories, pay reparations and extradite war criminals.
📹: Current Time
‼️ 2014. Luhansk.
Retired Russian general Gurulyov (current State Duma deputy) admits on Russian state TV to being in Donbas at the time. Also admits that the war was already going on.
Show this clip to the next Vatnik who claims there was a civil war in Donbas back in 2014 and not a Russian invasion.
#Russia
Putin's Russia currently resembles not even a totalitarian dictatorship but rather something from the early feudal medieval period with clans.
One can imagine the heads of clans (oligarchs, rich MPs, owners of huge corporations, heads of regions) gathering personal armies (many of them already have) and starting to fight each other enthusiastically.
Central government pretends to control everything but is actually getting weaker.
I wonder how and when Russia will burst and when the agony of this bloody empire will finally happen.
“Only the total defeat of the Russian Federation & the Ukrainian flag in Sevastopol [Crimea] will knock the virus of empire out of the brains of Russians. Russians must see - the empire is dead.”
- Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63)
Listen world!
This is not the Iranian people's war. It is Ali Khamenei and his regime's war.
Khamenei and his regime do not speak for our nation. His crimes are an affront to Iranians and our values.