Terje Helland retweeted
Thank God Serbia borders Europe, which is why we preserved our democracy. If we bordered Russia, we might have suffered the same fate as Belarus or Georgia. That's why I'm also sad tonight, because our Georgian and Belarusian friends continue to suffer the fate we managed to escape.
Terje Helland retweeted
🇬🇪In 2025 Tbilisi court fined a woman 2,500 GEL (800 EUR) for a rude Facebook comment about Interior Ministry lawyer Tamta Kimbarishvili. A year later Georgian Dream put Kimbarishvili in charge of a new ministry unit that hunts Facebook comments.
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Terje Helland retweeted
Sanctions planners should take note. Tamta Kimbarishvili runs the enforcement office of a censorship system. Judges Zviad Tsekvava and Tornike Kochkiani sign its rulings. Magnitsky frameworks exist for exactly this.
@EP_ForeignAff @SenateForeign @StateDept
@kajakallas
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Terje Helland retweeted
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says democratic backsliding in Georgia is worsening and that Georgian Dream is systematically depriving the Georgian people of their European future.
Speaking after a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg, Kallas said more opposition parties in Georgia now face the threat of being banned, while the foreign agents law is “suffocating” civil society.
“The Georgian people want a European future, but Georgian Dream is systematically taking it away from them,” Kallas said.
She added that the EU’s current approach is not creating enough pressure to bring about change and does not fully serve Europe’s strategic interests.
“We will return to this issue in January,” Kallas said.
Terje Helland retweeted
🇪🇺🇬🇪Sanctions against Ivanishvili, Kobakhidze, Papuashvili and Kaladze: 445 in favour, 37 against. The European Parliament adopts a resolution on Georgia. The resolution strongly condemns the Georgian Dream’s attempt to ban all opposition parties.
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🇲🇩Yesterday I walked around Tiraspol, Moldova's second largest city, which Chișinău does not control. In the bookshop, portraits of Putin and Stalin hang side by side for sale.
Price: 18 rubles 50. In a currency no country recognizes. A field report from Transnistria.🧵
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Terje Helland retweeted
Dearest Jared,
You're making this more difficult than it has to be. Here, have a seat and listen to me carefully.
1) Russia invaded a peaceful nation, a friend of ours, and raped their women, stole their children and took great delight in killing innocent non-combatants. That's bad, very bad, typically frowned upon.
2) The victim has been heroic in its own self-defense and has done so with foreign help that can be best described as underwhelming. They are actually causing damage to Russian infrastructure deep within Russian territory with cutting edge drone technology which is hurting the Russian economy.
3) The dying can stop right this minute, Jared, like right now. Here are the terms that I think any reasonable person would find equitable.
4) Russia turns the fuck around, gets out of Ukraine, agrees to recognize the pre-2014 borders, repatriates Ukrainian children, pays reparations, delivers a leashed and caged Putin to The Hague to face a tribunal, and in return, Ukraine will agree to not kill retreating Russians, release Russian prisoners of war, and not conquer Russian territory as it was pre-2014, as they could if they wanted to because they're currently kicking Russia's ass.
t's easy, Jared, that's the only terms that are acceptable.
Really, you're making this more difficult than it has to be you worthless Norman Bates look-a-like rodent.
Terje Helland retweeted
Moldova’s impressive record of EU reforms is paying off.
I had a good call with new Prime Minister @Vasile_Tofan during which we discussed the next steps on Moldova’s EU accession path.
I also informed the Prime Minister we are now in the final phase to unlock the next payment under the Growth Plan supporting Moldova’s investment agenda.
We agreed to continue our discussion at the EU-Moldova Association Council on October 5.
RT @ditasutterova: 650 days of pro-democracy and anti-authoritarian protests in Georgia 🇬🇪🇪🇺
The protests began in November 2024 against t…
Terje Helland retweeted
Kobakhidze is the gift that keeps on giving to Moscow. At this stage, why not just surrender it all and make Georgia part of Russia, as the GD government clearly views Georgia as an obedient vassal state anyway.
“#Georgia has decided to revise its history of relations with Moscow and no longer calls it occupation,” Russian state news agency RIA Novosti declared in an article titled “Occupation is cancelled”, referring to recent remarks by Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze about the 1783 Treaty of Georgievsk and Georgia’s subsequent incorporation into the Russian Empire. Kobakhidze called the decision a “civilisational choice”, sparking outrage and controversy in Georgian society.
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King Harald is dead, and the country🇳🇴 is silent.
We do not grieve a distant majesty. We grieve someone we knew. He laughed when he was glad. He wept when life was hard, and he never hid it.
He carried these last difficult years the way the rest of us must carry ours. With dignity, but without pretending it came at no cost. Perhaps that is why he felt so close. He showed us that even a king can hurt and struggle.
He made us proud. Not because he stood above the people, but because he belonged to us.
Those who grieve the most today may be the ones we otherwise notice the least. The Sámi. Queer people. Immigrants. Those who think differently, or live with something that makes the days heavier. To them, Harald said what no king had said as clearly before him, that Norway is their country too. Norway is us. Norway is you.
We wanted someone above us. We got someone who stood beside us.
Thank you, Harald V.
Kong Harald er død, og landet er stille.
Vi sørger ikke over en fjern majestet. Vi sørger over en vi kjente. Han lo når han var glad. Han gråt når livet var tungt, og han la aldri skjul på det.
De siste vanskelige årene bar han slik vi andre må bære våre. Med verdighet, men uten å late som det ikke kostet. Kanskje var det derfor han føltes så nær. Han viste oss at også en konge kan ha det vondt og vanskelig.
Han gjorde oss stolte. Ikke fordi han sto over folket, men fordi han hørte til.
De som sørger mest i dag, er kanskje de vi ellers ser minst til. Samer. Skeive. Innvandrere. De som tenker annerledes, eller lever med noe som gjør dagene tyngre. Til dem sa Harald noe ingen konge hadde sagt like klart før ham, at Norge også er deres land. Norge er oss. Norge er dere.
Vi ville ha noen over oss. Vi fikk en som sto ved siden av oss.
Takk, Harald V.
Terje Helland retweeted
Georgia: The Kremlin’s Financial Escape Hatch?
Russian deposits, political influence and the quite movement of wealth beyond Moscow’s reach
A free thread and explainer from Beefy. Please SHARE and support his free research library today!
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🇺🇦Ukraine's independence day. From my home in Norway🇳🇴, my flag is up.
I stand with those who fight for their own future. Ukraine also fight for Europe's security and strength. Every day they hold the line is a good day for day Europe 🇪🇺.
🇺🇦 Слава Україні.
🇲🇩BACK TO THE USSR. New school ritual in Transnistria, Moldova's breakaway region that no one recognizes. From Sept 1, every school week opens with the raising of its hammer-and-sickle flag and its anthem.
A thread on indoctrination by decree.
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The timing tells its own story. In February, Chișinău proposed Romanian-language teaching in the region's Moldovan schools from September 1. Tiraspol refused.
The flag order takes effect the same day. This is a counter-move in a battle over classrooms.
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