Anne Parry

🇪🇺❤️🇪🇺 PER UN’ITALIA EUROPEA 🇪🇺❤️🇪🇺

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

About 100–110 million Russians have never been abroad. That’s roughly 69–77% of the population. Around half have never even visited another region inside Russia, so even Moscow feels like a different universe to them. Only 9% have traveled to Western countries in the past five years — and most of those do not speak English.

What does this mean?

It means they have absolutely no idea who you are. They know as much about you as they do about aliens from outer space. They will believe any nonsense their media feeds them: that the West forces people into “gay relations,” that you dream of conquering “Mother Russia,” that Russians are naturally smarter, braver, and superior to you. If state TV claims you eat unborn babies, many would believe even that.

One of Russia’s most famous comedians built his entire career on mocking “stupid Americans and Europeans.” After Russia shot down a civilian airliner in 2014, he joked that it fell “because it is heavier than air,” and the whole audience laughed. He has since died of brain cancer, but his jokes are still widely popular.

Once, I was having dinner at a fish tavern in Cyprus and spoke with the owner. “Russians are rich,” he said.

I replied: “Only the ones who come here are rich. You will never see the poor majority.”

It’s the classic sampling mistake — judging the entire picture by the tiny exceptions you happen to encounter.

You do not know Russians.

The ones you may have met are at least middle-class and educated enough to cross a border, navigate airports, or speak a foreign language. The ones you never meet live in a completely different world — one you will never interact with.

A world without running water, with medieval wooden toilets, where alcoholism is a way of life and extreme regional poverty stands in brutal contrast to Moscow’s artificial glamour.

A world shaped by the mentality of slaves, because they are still treated as such.

A world where torture and violence are normalized and even legalized.

A world soaked in xenophobia, often directed even at Russia’s own ethnic minorities, let alone foreigners.

And when I describe these facts, many people refuse to believe them and dismiss it as “Russophobic propaganda.”
No — this is simply reality as it is.

Author: Volodymyr Kukharenko

[Azione @Azione_it]

Ci risiamo. Questa volta c’è l’endorsement ufficiale. Mentre l’Europa, a fatica, continua a difendere l’Ucraina opponendosi alle minacce di Putin, sostenuto da Trump, Salvini se ne esce con frasi che sembrano pronunciate direttamente dal Cremlino. E infatti questa volta arriva anche il plauso di Zakharova. Il tutto mentre l’Ambasciata russa in Italia delirava su un organo di stampa e sulla vendita del gruppo GEDI. Una follia.
Salvini si ricordi che ruolo ha e chi rappresenta.

@f_onori

[LucaLovisolo.ch @LucaLovisolo]

Ancora sui territori dell'Ucraina oggi pretesi dalla Russia: dopo il precedente video su come la Crimea fu ceduta da Mosca all'Ucraina, qui rispondo alla domanda: ma se non fosse passata all'Ucraina, oggi la Crimea sarebbe davvero «storicamente russa�� come affermano al Cremlino?

[Brendan May @bmay]

Whilst right wing mad people claim London is more dangerous than anywhere on earth (stats say the opposite), here’s a glimpse of American university life in Rhode Island yesterday. And Farage thinks we should consider gun ownership. Utterly insane.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Putin sits in Moscow claiming that his armies have taken a town that the Ukrainian president is personally visiting. There are cowardly tyrants and there are courageous elected leaders and it is good to know the difference.

[European Movement @EMInternational]

We must stand up for our Union.

Our democracy and our independence depend on it. 🇪🇺

Read our statement👇 https://t.co/SAzT555d3p

[Anne Parry @anparry]

This is my flag.

It stands for unity, freedom, peace, democracy, equality, civilization, diversity, rule of law, science, beauty and strength.

There is nothing more important to fight for.
#thisismyflag #EU

[Anne Parry @anparry]

@KratosCurr94 @threadreaderapp unroll please

[Prof. Dr. Cristina Vanberghen @VanberghenEU]

Really, @elonmusk? “How long before the EU is gone? AbolishTheEU”

This IS pure provocation.

If you dislike Europe’s rules so intensely, then by all means, step away from the market. Europe will adapt, innovate, and build its own platforms. In fact, your exit might be the wake-up call the EU needs to accelerate its technological independence instead of relying on the whims of billionaires who treat politics like a game.

Calling for the EU’s abolition ignores the real - world consequences: economic chaos, weakened global competitiveness, fractured supply chains, and stalled climate coordination.

[Renew Europe @RenewEurope]

Musk wants to break up the EU.

Putin wants a weaker EU.

China wants to divide the EU.

Trump wants a far-right EU.

WE want a STRONGER EU.

Are you with us? 🇪🇺����🇺🇪🇺

[Alexandre 🇺🇦 @Toriadus]

A Ukrainian girl cries on her grandfather's shoulder as she is being forcibly evacuated from a town approached by Russian Nazis.

#ArmUkraineToWin

[Rusudan Djakeli 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @rusudanjakeli]

When you’re perfectly happy to be stuck in traffic — because it’s a pro-EU protest march.

Day 373 of uninterrupted protests in Georgia.

[Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 @sikorskiradek]

An interesting metric of erasure is the number of gun deaths: about 6,700 a year in the EU and about 47,000 in the US.

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ Civilians under Russian occupation in the Luhansk region are starving and dying of cold because of a breakdown in essential services under the 'Luhansk People's Republic' (LPR), according to a complaint by a Russian warblogger. ⬇️

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Can't think of another example of a global power so demonstratively burning its assets and destroying its influence, in a single document

[Anne Parry @anparry]

@Ander_Bruckes @PiazzapulitaLA7 @corradoformigli @LaStampa @la_kuzzo @chetempochefa @Ivan_Grieco @jacopo_iacoboni Grazie, finalmente una spiegazione chiara che non permette ambiguità

[Filippo Piperno @partigggiano]

Mentre Marco Travaglio ripete la sua liturgia cremlinese per i casi di corruzione in Ucraina, può essere utile sapere che in Russia chi scava a fondo nell'enorme voragine di corruttela su cui è costruito il potere di Vladimir Putin, finisce ammazzato in galera.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Sen. Kelly: “I take the threats from this president seriously. How many times in our country's history have you heard a president of the United States say that members of the Senate and the House should be hanged?…Those words carry a lot of weight…He ain't going to shut me up…I'm not intimidated by Donald Trump.”

[Ineluctable Chris @BoveFromAbove]

Drop a 💛 if you think there should be a full investigation into Reform UK's dodgy links to Russia.