Jeff Lucas

[Jeff Lucas @Jeff_A_Lucas]

@tim_sandsquid63 @bneeditor Those are all very big "ifs".

[Jeff Lucas @Jeff_A_Lucas]

@bneeditor This is the Istanbul 22 deal, isn't it. Could have saved a lot of death and destruction. We Brits know better than to listen to Boris Johnson.

[Jeff Lucas @Jeff_A_Lucas]

@BladeoftheS Carry on Kommandant

[Jeff Lucas @Jeff_A_Lucas]

@CraigMurrayOrg Thank you, fascinating.

[Jeff Lucas @Jeff_A_Lucas]

@making_news1 @zerohedge What's the exact date of the FP article, I'd like to read it. Early 2014?

[Jeff Lucas @Jeff_A_Lucas]

@Glenn_Diesen Almost as good as this one.

[Jeff Lucas @Jeff_A_Lucas]

@CraigMurrayOrg Thank you for being indefatigable. I always read your rewarding posts with great interest. I trust you have a good bottle of malt on your desk.

[Jeff Lucas @Jeff_A_Lucas]

@Honza4746 Clearly explained. Thank you.

[Jeff Lucas @Jeff_A_Lucas]

@JazzCatJohnny @anatoliisharii Thank you.

[Stephen Kinzer @stephenkinzer]

I'll present my book "Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine" at Brown tonight (11/4). The event will be live streamed at 5:30 EST.

https://t.co/4KVI8X36ht

[Jeff Lucas @Jeff_A_Lucas]

@suedostX Are you also doubtful about Zelensky's glorification of the OUN and UPA as Heroes of Ukraine ?

[Leonid Ragozin @leonidragozin]

I can now inform that I've received a response from the Latvian foreign ministry @Arlietas about my expulsion from the country.

It confirms that I've been added to the list of undesirable persons - something MFA or foreign minister @Braze_Baiba have never confirmed publicly, despite doing so in the case of Kseniya Sobchak a few days ago.

Most crucially, it says that the reasons for my expulsion cannot be disclosed because they constitute state secret.

I regard it as an admission that there were no reasons at all, apart from petty revenge for the investigation into a link between the @VL_TBLNNK party and Kyiv-based Russian admirers of Christchurch shooter and Adolf Hiitler from the Wotanjugend platform, as well as for my thought crimes regarding the West's handling of the Russian aggression in Ukraine.

I believe the "state secret" which the Latvian government is trying to protect by classifying the reasons for my expulsion is that it is the case of political persecution carried out via an extrajudicial procedure that has been designed for diplomats enjoying political immunity, not for ordinary people with EU's permanent residence permit who had been screened by Latvian security bodies annually for over a decade.

Far right politicians, who pressed Braže into initiating this move during the last week before the Latvia election, explicitly said that an extrajudicial tool must be applied in my case because otherwise "the state will lose in court". That alone betrays their abuse of authority with the aim of political persecution.

Finally, the response claims there has been no request regarding my case sent by the foreign ministry to the interior ministry, despite Baiba Braže referring to publicly on Sep 30. That letter/message, I believe, may shed light on the true reasons behind the Latvian government's sadistic decision aimed at destroying my life for my journalistic work and my political opinions.

Here is an alert regarding my case issued by the pan-EU media freedom watchdog @MediaFreedomEU
https://t.co/OMRe418mX3

Please help me return to my only and beloved home. Please don't allow EU member countries to destroy rule of law and media freedom the way it happened in Putin's Russia over last decades.
@CommissionerHR @CoEMediaFreedom @EUCssrMcGrath @Tiesibsargs_LV @UNHumanRights @RSF_inter @CPJ_Eurasia @IndexCensorship @IFJGlobal @hrw @AmnestyEECA

[Jeff Lucas @Jeff_A_Lucas]

@shelbyjmag False info like Yanukovich getting all the blame for the Pravvysektor snipers shooting protestors on the Maidan?

[Jeff Lucas @Jeff_A_Lucas]

@francisjfarrell A small repayment for the Pravysektor snipers in the Maidan?

[Jeff Lucas @Jeff_A_Lucas]

@BrianMcDonaldIE Looks like the 1000 day countdown has started. Don't anyone mention it to Putin, by the way, otherwise he might be tempted to get one in first, know what I mean?

[Jeff Lucas @Jeff_A_Lucas]

@proud_diplomat Signed. Thank you.

[marydejevsky @marydejevsky]

'having the British Army & RAF planes on Russia's border reduces the risk of war'
Discuss...

[Jeff Lucas @Jeff_A_Lucas]

@CraigMurrayOrg I wish there was some evidence of that.

[Jeff Lucas @Jeff_A_Lucas]

@thebanns @robert_lyman @YeomanRuth @uniofleicester Agreed. Article by Mary Dejevsky, former chief editorial writer for the Independent.
https://t.co/XDNS4FZTJt