Simona

[Gatis Šļūka @KarikaturaLv]

Šodien 🇮🇹 oficiāli atklātas ziemas olimpiskās spēles, kas Milānā un Kortīnā d'Ampeco notiks līdz 22. februārim.

Starptautiskās Olimpiskās komitejas izpildkomiteja pieņēmusi lēmumu, ka 🇷🇺 un 🇧🇾 sportistiem būs atļauts piedalīties šajās spēlēs zem neitrālā karoga. @lasilvportals

[Бианка @BiankaB12]

Earlier today my mother looked at me, dead serious, with tears in her eyes, and said: “If communists and Russians take over again, we’re leaving Bulgaria forever.”

She’s almost 70. The pain in her eyes killed me.

She was born under communism. Raised children during the chaos and poverty of the “transition.” Worked herself to the bone her entire life.

And now - now, when she’s finally supposed to have peace and dignity - she’s being forced to think about running, because she doesn’t want to rinse and repeat the past.

People who romanticize communism or shrug at Russian influence don’t understand this part: for millions in Eastern Europe, this is irreparable trauma.

We already paid the price. Generation after generation. We’re not doing it again.

[Sintija @_skabarga]

Vaaai, cik šis labs 👌🏻 ja nu kādam nepieciešams atsvaidzināt atmiņu.

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

The fact I bombed residential apartment blocks last night shows how much Ukraine doesn't want peace.

[Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 @frontlinekit]

French senator perfectly describes the Trump situation.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Zelensky has thanked Trump, Congress, and the American people many times.

But let's be clear: when Trump and Vance said that THEY are trying to help Ukraine right now, and need to be thanked for the work personally, there are reasons to wonder. 1/ THREAD

[Simona @simgur]

@realTrumpNewsX YES

[Erik Kannike @erikkannike]

Honestly speaking I'm wondering if most of Europe is in some sort of coma or what is going on - we have North Korean soldiers, Iranian ballistic missiles and Chinese drones pummeling European soil and the reaction is.... nothing? Do you really think this will stop here?

[GermanForeignOffice @GermanyDiplo]

@mfa_russia Seriously?

#MolotovRibbentropPact
#HitlerStalinPact

[Alden Jones @aldenejones]

Yes, college students have lost their ability to read. I have taught lit for 24 years; the threshold started to decline in the late aughts and nosedived during Covid. A thread with observations + how I get my students to read ALL (or at least most) of the reading I assign: 🧵

[Simona @simgur]

@RigasDome Labdien! Eksporta un Ūmeo ielas krustojumā zāle ir tik gara, ka nevar pārredzēt satiksmi. Vai varat padot ziņu zemes īpašniekam, lai sakopj malu?

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

#Tiananmen from various phones.

[Simona @simgur]

@frontlinekit In Latvia I have encountered quite a few dogs, when the owners say - “He’s from Ukraine.” The question “Did you adopt him, because his previous owners died” does not need to be asked. 😔

[Simona @simgur]

@dzeina @mans_tet ASV youtube var izīrēt par normālu cenu. Tik jālejupielādē Free VPN (ar vienradzi), jānoskatās pāris reklāmas un var skatīties.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

A brief history of the colour orange:

[Artur Rehi @ArturRehi]

Times are approaching in Russia, in comparison with which the 90s will seem like mild hooliganism. Then the growth of banditry with shootings, racketeering, robberies was caused by the economic crisis after the fall of the USSR and a large number of people who went through
1/13

[Juris Jurans @juransj]

"Western commentators who blame the current situation on NATO, America, or “the West”, or who think some kind of “compromise peace” is possible, would do well to familiarise themselves with Russian history." https://t.co/57EDs8JTQW

[Frederiks Ozols @incaustum]

2/2 "The Russian operation adopted a strongly anti-Israeli stance. It advanced a narrative that the US-backed Israel is responsible for killing babies in Gaza. It was .. aimed at .. diverting attention from Russia’s activities in Ukraine."
https://t.co/viGbygMjJA

[max seddon @maxseddon]

Wearing a Kim Jong-Un-style tunic, Dmitry Medvedev says "Ukraine is definitely Russia" and shows off a map of what he thinks should be left of Ukraine. Spoiler: not much!

"Our geostrategic space has been indivisible since the time of the ancient Russian state," he says.

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

Tonight Russian state TV has this message for the Russian public: “We’re for peace. But peace is always the result of war. War was forced on us. So we will secure peace again through victory.” (‘Forced on us’? It was Russia that launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.)