John Kaye

Doctoral researcher, Russian Studies @helsinkiuni + @aleksanteri_uh /
hallituksen jäsen @seta_ry /
EN/FI/FR/RU/
international relations, lgbtqia+

[John Kaye @JohnM_Kaye]

💡👉”…there is no such thing as a “good autocracy”: every autocracy, regardless of its socio-economic performance, is dangerous to other countries and to its own citizens.”

https://t.co/nxxE8I8FAq

[John Kaye @JohnM_Kaye]

At Minsk Conference, #Lukashenka explains #Georgia’s contested election results and turn away from the EU as a result of imposing #LGBT rights on the country, home of the true ’lads and man’s men’ of the Soviet era who ”have spent their entire lives looking at women!”

[Hanna Liubakova @HannaLiubakova]

Orban rushed to #Georgia to congratulate the ruling Georgian Dream party on its election victory. Both are steering their countries away from democracy and closer to #Russia.

[John Kaye @JohnM_Kaye]

Kirjoitin @Ulkopolitist Venäjän vastakkaisista mediamaailmoista. Maan viihdeteollisuus normalisoi pitkittynyttä sotaa ja tutustuttaa uuteen todellisuuteen. Hajaantuneen opposition on saatava nostalgiansa kanavoitua toiminnaksi pysyäkseen uskottavana vaihtoehtona putinismille 🧑‍💻👇

[The Ulkopolitist @Ulkopolitist]

Venäjän mediakentän kahtiajako jatkaa syventymistään. Valtion mediat totuttavat seuraajiaan uuteen sodantäyteiseen todellisuuteen, kun pirstaloitunut oppositio nostalgisoi 90-luvun demokratiaa.

Lue Kaynen analyysi Venäjän jakautuneesta mediakentästä👇

https://t.co/JhSgn9Ox5N

[Novaya Gazeta Europe @novayagazeta_en]

Lithuania has appealed to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate what it called “crimes against humanity” committed by the regime of Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, the Lithuanian Justice Ministry announced on Monday. ⤵️

[Elisa Gebhard @ElisaGebhard]

Kylmäävä ajatus, että vähemmistöihin kuuluvia ei voisi tukea edes sodan keskellä. Jos tämä pitää paikkansa, ministerin hlökohtaiset ennakkoluulot romuttavat Suomen ulkopolitiikan linjaa.

Tarvitaan @PetteriOrpo pikaista selvennystä hallituksen kannasta.

https://t.co/B8uwi40g7O

[Katri Pynnöniemi @Pynnoniemi]

Kirjoitimme @parppei kanssa: kysymystä rauhasta pitää tarkastella sekä sotilasstrategian että Venäjän kolonialistisen perinteen näkökulmasta. Ukrainan tukijoilta edellytetään myös kykyä ymmärtää Venäjän ulkopolitiikan kaksoismerkityksiä. https://t.co/oY1OIdiVnk

[John Kaye @JohnM_Kaye]

This (desperate) state branding exercise has been coming down the pipeline for some time, with media fawning over western traditionalists and their families who “fled gender ideology” to Russia, and western vloggers marketing Russia as the trad heaven liberals lied to you about.

[John Kaye @JohnM_Kaye]

Putinin loppua ja tulevaisuuden Venäjää odotellessa kannattaa varautua murrokseen myös lukemalla historiaa. Kuten @jussi_lassila toteaa tässä, vain varautumalla vältetään 1990-luvun pahimmat seuraukset, joista pahin on ollut tietysti itse Putin(ismi).

[Ulkopolitiikka-lehti @Ulkopolitiikka]

Voihan 🇷🇺

UP kysyi viideltä Venäjä-tutkijalta, miltä itänaapurin tulevaisuus näyttää viiden vuoden päästä? Vastauksia värittää pessimismi, mutta historia on täynnä yllättätyksiä.

✏️: Arkady Moshes, @Veer_Laine, @Pynnoniemi, @jussi_lassila, @sinikukka

https://t.co/qrdscwZj7Y

[Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya @Tsihanouskaya]

My husband Siarhei has been incommunicado for 527 days—he's not the only one:

▪️ Ihar Losik for 544 days
▪️ Maria Kalesnikava for 549 days
▪️ Mikalai Statkevich for 554 days
▪️ Maksim Znak for 555 days
▪️ Viktar Babaryka for 558 days
▪️ Uladzimir Kniha for 346 days

It must end!

[Tapio Määttä @tapiomaatta]

”Emme pärjää globaalissa osaajakilpailussa vaikeuttamalla pysyvän oleskeluluvan ja kansalaisuuden saamista, leikkaamalla kotoutumisesta tai kolmen kuukauden säännön kaltaisilla lakipaketeilla.”

Näinpä.

@EeroManninen / @TechFinland
https://t.co/dMIUih2RyN

[Ruth Deyermond @ruth_deyermond]

This is an interesting shift from Trump's time in the White House, when he had rather different views of the Venezuelan government. A quick 🧵on Trump, Venezuela, and his lack of criticism of Russian interference.

[Lena Holmgren @Elena_Holmgren]

@vkaramurza to BBC:
https://t.co/DLjDcSwOh8

[Konstantin Sonin @k_sonin]

I want to thank whoever paid attention in @JoeBiden's administration and among those who advised it - for inclusion of Alexandra Skochilenko in today's exchange. Some of the Russian political prisoners that we released are opposition leaders or world-famous activists. Sasha Skochilenko is nobody - just a woman who was against the criminal war and wanted to do something. She wrote anti-war slogans on small pieces of paper and posted them in a local grocery store. Spent two years in prison, released today with six years to go. Those who thought about including her in the today's exchange, my gratitude.

[borisgroh @BorisGrohArt]

"Military target "
2024

#Ukraine #Ukrart #borisgroh

[John Kaye @JohnM_Kaye]

Unthinkable cruelty and disregard for the most vulnerable. When western conservatives even hint at Russia as upholding some ”family values”, remember to bring up Okhmadyt, Mariupol maternity ward, the thousands of kidnapped children. What kind of values are these?

[Liz Cookman @liz_cookman]

This is Andriy and his family, who I met at Kyiv’s Okhmadyt children’s hospital yesterday.

He is 9, disabled and recovering from surgery. Russia hit the hospital with a missile and they had to wait 5 hours in the ruins, in shock and in the dark, for safe evacuation.

[Pjotr Sauer @PjotrSauer]

The children sat in stunned silence, their fragile bodies still tethered to medical drips outside the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in Kyiv... A woman rushed past, cradling an infant covered with blood.
Some of the terrible scenes from today's Ru strike
https://t.co/i1voO1dQsB

[Katri Pynnöniemi @Pynnoniemi]

"Venäjä on suurhyökkäyksensä alusta asti pommittanut järjestelmällisesti Ukrainan siviilikohteita. Se on pyrkinyt tuhoamaan Ukrainan energiainfrastruktuuria, mutta myös kylvämään kauhua. Tavoitteena on murtaa ukrainalaisten puolustustahtoa": https://t.co/HXEKVIoag2

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv. One of the most important CHILDREN’S hospitals not only in Ukraine, but also in Europe. Okhmatdyt has been saving and restoring the health of thousands of children.

Now that the hospital has been damaged by a Russian strike, there are people under the rubble, and the exact number of casualties is still unknown. Right now, everyone is helping to clear the rubble – doctors and ordinary people.

Russia cannot claim ignorance of where its missiles are flying and must be held fully accountable for all its crimes. Against people, against children, against humanity in general. It is very important that the world does not remain silent about this now, and that everyone sees what Russia is and what it is doing.