Today, Chairman Joe Wilson and Ranking Member Steve Cohen released a statement calling on Georgian leadership to abandon the Russian-style 'foreign agent' bill. Georgia must divert from this destructive path and return to its previous liberal democratic trajectory.

Oh please, Department of State. The best you can do is “the US remains deeply concerned”? Why not just offer “thoughts and prayers” for Georgian civil society?

Please read my colleague Nathan Kohlenberg 🎗️’s new piece about how the US and EU can go from words to actions: gmfus.org/news/if-first-…

NEW!!! State Dept on Georgian protests and #russianlaw :

United States:
✔️ Calls/pushes for protests be peaceful
✔️ Will condemn any violence
✔️Continues to find #russianlaw “deeply problematic and inconsistent with EU aspirations”

#NoTorussianLaw

6 new Chairs of parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committees (Belgium, Bulgaria, Iceland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Slovenia) - in total already 20 European Chairs - express their protest against Russian Law in Georgia Els Van Hoof Boyko Borissov Gusty Graas

This is why Estonians feel the Ukrainian pain as their own.
One family of thousands deported by the Soviets in 1941:

Dr Irakli Bokuchava eka tkeshelashvili Eto Buziashvili #NoToRussianLaw in #Sakartvelo ! x.com/ZygisPavilioni…

International media requests: OMG RUSSIA ANNOUNCED PUTTING ISKANDERS TO KARELIA, HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THIS, FINNS ???? 😱

Finns: good, bring them closer so that they’re easier to eliminate.

BREAKING: US Department of State imposes visa restrictions on 13 mercenary spyware proliferators / immediate family.

First known application of policy rolled out in Feb.
state.gov/promoting-acco…

Worth the time to watch.

WATCH!!! State Dept’s State Department: Democracy, Human Rights, & Labor senior human rights official Robert Gilchrist on:

✔️ Georgian Dream’s “russian law”

✔️ Azerbaijan’s political prisoners

#NoTorussianLaw

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Russia just struck the TV tower in Kharkiv, messing with Ukrainian digital signal. It's their scorched-earth tactic in action, déjà vu from spring 2022

For the fifth day in a row, #TbilisiProtests are headlined by youth groups who have already blocked Rustaveli Avenue. #NoToRussianLaw

pure gold

Promises of future spending aren’t the same as actual contracts that would impel European defense contractors to increase production at speed and scale. My take via ⁦POLITICOEurope⁩ ⁦Scowcroft Center⁩ ⁦Atlantic Council⁩ politico.eu/article/withou…

In #Kharkiv , east #Ukraine , Russian missiles hit the city’s TV tower causing its partial collapse.

Another reminder that #Russia is a terrorist state.

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In Kharkiv, the Russian army hit the television tower!!! Terrorists!

In Germany I hear that sending Taurus to Ukraine is in a dead end and not going to happen.

Very interesting to hear how Scholz goes about it if the U.S. now delivers longer-range ATACMS to Ukraine

Snyder is by far and away the best historian of the region.

When we look back on this worldwide set of wars in a few years, the thing that will be most discredited is academic escalation theory. It does not explain real world actions and has made decision making and wars longer and more destructive.

Stephen Kotkin: The Five Futures of Russia foreignaffairs.com/russian-federa…