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Alex Lisko 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Elon Musk has complied after all and provided a list of X Holding Corp shareholders who helped the billionaire buy Twitter. And who do you think turned out to be the investors of the X platform? That's right, Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich. Now it is absolutely obvious where Musk got such love for Russia and where the roots of “filters” due to anti-Russian publications grow from. Let me remind you who Aven and Moshkovich are. Petr Aven is a Russian billionaire, founder of Alfa Group, which is one of the main wallets for Putin. This man is controlled by the Kremlin as much as possible, for example, in 2018 he traveled to Washington with his colleague Fridman to lobby on behalf of the Russian government to lift international sanctions on Russia. Aven is one of Putin's oldest friends. In general, without Peter's interference, Putin would be in jail rather than becoming president. After all, Aven covered for Vladimir Putin in 1992, when he organized the illegal trade in export licenses. Aven promptly approved him as an authorized representative of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Affairs with the right of foreign economic activity, thus saving the future dictator from prison. Aven also attended a meeting with Putin on February 24, 2022 to mark the start of the invasion of Ukraine. He did not express any protest, started the special military operation and silently supported Putin. By the way, he along with Friedman is trying to get sanctions lifted, just yesterday he received another rejection in this matter. Twitter is represented in the purchase by 8VC Opportunities Fund II, L.P., a company in which his son Denis works. Vadim Moshkovich is a sub-sanctioned Russian agrarian billionaire who was a member of the “Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation”. In other words, he was officially part of Putin's closest circle. Moshkovich owns Russia's largest agricultural holding Rusagro. Naturally, he also attended the meeting with Putin on February 24, 2022 and, like Aven, did not express any protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Twitter is represented in the purchase by 8VC Opportunities Fund II, L.P., a company in which his son Jack (Eugene) works. Also an interesting personality is Al-Waleed bin Talal Al Saud, who both personally and through his Kingdom Holding Company is represented in the list of investors as many as three times. This man continues his investment business in Russia and does not publicly support Hamas in the war against Israel. He regularly works with Rosneft, Lukoil and Gazprom on investments in Russia. Knowing all of this, how can there even be a discussion about Elon Musk's bias? Everyone was thinking how is it possible that Twitter (X)'s stock is plummeting, advertisers are breaking contracts, and no one is doing anything about it. I mean, that's a direct loss to investors. But what everyone overlooked was the fact that investors didn't care about profits, they needed a platform to promote their narratives, such as: supporting Putin and Russia; lobbying to freeze the war in Ukraine; taking the Ukrainian agenda out of the top news; the righteousness of Hamas, etc. It is now obvious that all the changes to Twitter that are ruining this beautiful platform are a consequence of Elon Musk's collaboration with people like Moshkovich and Aven. #ElonMusk #RussiaUkraineWar #RussialsATerroristState
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Alex Lisko 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
US has not spent $350B on Ukraine. It has spent $132B, $33B of that is money. The rest is $21B in loans, repaid from frozen Russian assets, $4B in humanitarian aid, and the vast majority, $74B is military equipment. Half that equipment is new, made in the US. The other half is old stockpile equipment, which soon would have had to be demilitarized at great cost. The replacement equipment is made in the US, so the money stays in the US. 
Meanwhile, the EU and European countries have spent a combined $271B, more than twice as much as the US.
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Alex Lisko 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
He did what he threatened to do and is now pretending he didn’t
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Alex Lisko 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Trump: There has to be a ceasefire Zelenskyy: Yes, without conditions Putin: No Trump: You should meet, face-to-face Zelenskyy: Anytime, anywhere Putin: No Trump: Stop hitting energy infrastructure Zelenskyy: Agreed Putin: No Trump: Thank you, Putin. Zelenskyy has to go.
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🔥 This has never happened before. Retired colonel Viktor Baranets just admitted on air that 🇷🇺 officers shot down the Malaysian Boeing over Donbas. “A Russian officer shot it down… because this infection had entered our airspace.” 298 dead.
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Alex Lisko 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
There is, writes @davidfrum, an "implicit quid pro quo in these lucrative deals offered to Trump’s family and friends: If you compel Ukraine to surrender, we will enrich you beyond reckoning" theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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Alex Lisko 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
RETWEET if you stand with President Zelensky against Donald Trump!
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Alex Lisko 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
We will be introducing bipartisan legislation to block any and all purchases of Russian oil. It will be called the “Ronald Reagan Peace Through Strength Act.” It will be forced to the Floor via discharge and it will pass overwhelmingly. #PeaceThroughStrength
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Alex Lisko 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Another way to think about Trump announcement today: If he increased US diesel imports from Canada by 4%, he would gain as much fuel as from this Russia deal. But the Canadians are global super-villains, so who wants to buy from them when you could enrich Putin instead?
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Alex Lisko 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Today one Russian paper claims “Russia’s military has been given political blank cheque to carry out full demilitarisation & deindustrialisation of Ukraine.” But nothing in the papers from Irkutsk, where there have been reports of a potentially “dangerous infection.” #ReadingRussia
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Alex Lisko 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Imagine opening Fox News and seeing a Democrat at 53% in Texas.
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Alex Lisko 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Young second and third-generation migrants film a French firefighter after setting him on fire during the ongoing school riots
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Alex Lisko 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Incredible footage from inside the aircraft: the pilot who was stabbed is seen moments after the attack, after passengers and crew had subdued the suspect. Dramatic scenes from the Dubai flight.
🔴 “The terrorist has been subdued; there’s a pilot here seriously wounded” — a passenger reports from inside the aircraft moments after the pilot suspected of trying to crash the plane was restrained. Passengers and crew reportedly managed to subdue him. More footage is emerging from the terrifying moments aboard the Dubai flight.
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Alex Lisko 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
“What should I do if I need my motherland, but she doesn’t need me?” Superheroes, special operations and “shaping the mindset of children.” An extended edition of #ReadingRussia
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Alex Lisko 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Russian troops' barbaric rape campaign in Ukraine includes 4-year-old girl, UN details in alarming report trib.al/isaCEmz
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Alex Lisko 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
"We raped 3 boys, 5 girls, 6 women, and shot them" – a captured Russian tells about his group's atrocities in Avdiivka
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Alex Lisko 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Hey @BBCNews - Can you please actually do your job and report how everyone, including Reform, were told in March the law would be retroactive. Heres the wording: “The cap will therefore apply retrospectively, so it will include all donations from overseas electors received from today and all regulated transactions entered into from today.” Hansard, 25th Mar 2026
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Alex Lisko 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
In this terrible economy, I don’t know how you can afford not to vote Republican. Everybody’s talking about the $5000 dividend he promised last night, but don’t forget you still have the $5000 DOGE refund coming as well as the $2,000 tariff rebate. Are you really going to turn your nose up at $12,000?
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Alex Lisko 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
MAHIYA NAMAN KAYO | Secretary of National Defense Gilberto C. Teodoro, Jr. responded to a note from the Chinese side during the Seoul Defense Dialogue (SDD) 2026 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. #DNDPHL #DiKaPasisiil #SDD2026
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Alex Lisko 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Kyiv this morning…
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