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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 22h

Speaking of Smiley, nnother great piece I came across at Michael's X is this article by Andrei Soldatov. Not only for the fans of le Carré.
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...

How the KGB used John le Carré to airbrush its image

The Soviet intelligence agency drew on the writer’s books to portray themselves as professional and rational

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 22h

Terrific take @michaeldweiss.bsky.social.
+ for Lamb, the lighter isn’t about love or betrayal like it was for Smiley and Karla - it’s what’s left after both: habit, decay, the reflex of survival. Smiley reached for meaning, Lamb reached for fire. Same craft, colder century, the lesson is endurance.

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 1d

Danish intelligence: Russia is preparing for potential conflict with NATO while escalating sabotage, cyber, and provocations. Expects rising capability as Ukraine resolves. Rebuild underway, hybrid pressure now, conventional risk later. 3/3
www.fe-ddis.dk/globalassets...

www.fe-ddis.dk

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 1d

Estonian intelligence: Russia is rebuilding a mass army, forming new units on the Baltic flank, and likely to forward-base if Ukraine freezes. Hybrid operations now, accelerating force growth, and a rising medium-term threat to NATO cohesion and defense. 2/3
raport.valisluureamet.ee/2025/en/

International Security and Estonia 2025 – Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service

The Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service has published a report covering the security situation in the Baltic Sea region.

raport.valisluureamet.ee

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 1d

Danish intel: Russia is preparing for potential conflict with NATO while escalating sabotage, cyber, and provocations. Expects rising capability as Ukraine resolves. Converges with ISW and Estonia: rebuild underway, hybrid pressure now, conventional risk later. 3/3
www.fe-ddis.dk/globalassets...

www.fe-ddis.dk

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 1d

ISW: Russia is regenerating land forces, scaling industry & drones, and intensifying hybrid pressure below Article 5. Assesses a medium-term risk window for NATO. Estonian and Danish intelligence 2025 assessments reached the same conclusion earlier this year. 1/3
understandingwar.org/research/rus...

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 6, 2025

Russia appears to be accelerating the informational and psychological condition setting phase to prepare for a possible NATO-Russia war

understandingwar.org

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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 3d

Triple terror.

In the Chernihiv region, a russian drone targeted a service car of engineers who came to repair an energy facility after russia's previous attack — killing two workers and injuring three.

When rescuers arrived, russians shelled them too.

Unspeakable horror. Don't look away.

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 4d

Doing nothing about the crocodile, hoping it’ll eat you last, is just a history lesson you refused to learn.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4d

How to negotiate with Putin: First, make sure he knows he can't win
From @radek-sikorski.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Opinion | I’m the Foreign Minister of Poland. This Is How to Negotiate With Putin.

www.nytimes.com

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Margarete Rosalind Weidenhammer @margareterosali.bsky.social · 4d

🫥
#UkrainianArt History
@ukr_arthistory

Half of #Kyiv doesn't have electricity after the attack, which was expected, because our neighbours are russians. It is cold outside, raining and not nice.

But we have each other anyway ☕️

Ihor Hrihoriev (1934-1977), "At cafe", 1964

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 4d

Call it hybrid warfare, gray-zone tactics, or whatever euphemism helps you sleep at night. But semantics won’t save you.

It’s war. Russia is at war with you, dear Europe. Whether you like it or not.

Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 4d

Nice info graph of #hybrid attacks on Europe by The Economist.

www.economist.com/briefing/202...

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 6d

💥🔎💰NEW INVESTIGATION: Across the Visegrád countries, politicians use paid social media ads to attack journalists, human rights activists, and NGOs – while Meta & Google profit from this #SponsoredHate. Such ads reach tens of thousands of users while evading platform moderation. @vsquare.bsky.social

Sponsored Hate: How Politicians Paid for Meta Ads to Attack Journalists - VSquare.org

Across the Visegrád countries, politicians have increasingly used paid social media ads to attack journalists, human rights activists, and civil society organizations.

vsquare.org

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The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca · 10d

NEW REPORT: We uncovered a coordinated network of fake X profiles that is spreading AI-generated content to induce revolt in #Iran. We call this network “PRISONBREAK”.

Read the report 👉 citizenlab.ca/2025/10/ai-e...

We Say You Want a Revolution: PRISONBREAK - An AI-Enabled Influence Operation Aimed at Overthrowing the Iranian Regime - The Citizen Lab

We investigate a coordinated network of inauthentic X accounts that is spreading AI-generated content to induce revolt in Iran. The network has been active since 2023, but increased activity during th...

citizenlab.ca

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 5d

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 5d

Here, again exactly on Putin's birthday yesterday.

Pravda Publisher Dies After Fall From a Window in Putin’s Moscow

Authorities claimed Vyacheslav Leontyev had a “nervous breakdown” and stumbled out of a window.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 6d

Russian journalists Anna politkovskaya, Stanislav Markelov, Natalya Estemirova. Grozny 2005. All of them were assassinated.

Photo credit: gulagu[.]net

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 6d

In the West, journalists receive the Pulitzer award for truth-telling.
In Russia, there is also a 9mm award - a 9mm bullet in the forehead for telling the truth.

Anna Politkovskaya was one of the many journalists that the Kremlin regime assasinated for telling the truth.

Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 7d

OTD in 2006 journalist & activist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead. Whoever is responsible for having her killed is still at large. And turns 73 today.

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Alexandre Alaphilippe @aa.disinfo.eu · 9d

Important visualization of current air strikes targeting Ukraine.

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 9d

Massive Russian missile and drone attack on #Ukraine last night. Russia used different types of cruise missiles, Kinzhal missiles and drones on Ukrainian energy infrastructure and civilian objects. Western regions of Ukraine were under the most intense attack.

◾️Lviv and Lviv region: massive attack.

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 8d

@jospang.bsky.social Jochen, last time we met in Georgia, it still breathed freely. I hope we’ll meet there again soon - in a free Georgia - and talk not about the survival of the information space, but about better practices to strengthen and protect it. I appreciate your support. ❤️

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Benjamin Husstad-Nedberg @factforce.bsky.social · 8d

Important sit rap👇

Remember that #Georgia is on the frontline - like #Ukraine - in the fight against fascist #Russia. Do as Eto says, and raise this in your capitals.

The most likely next targets for Russia's imperial war - before they test NATO - is Georgia and #Moldova.

Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 8d

It’s been hard 24h for Georgians. Grave mistakes were made. Yesterday, Georgia lost a battle against Russian takeover - but the fight for freedom &democracy continues. If there’s one thing yst proved, it’s that resistance hasnt disappeared. They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds. 1/12

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Andreas Oetker-Kast @andreasok.bsky.social · 8d

Good read about what happened in 🇬🇪 in the last 24h …

Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 8d

It’s been hard 24h for Georgians. Grave mistakes were made. Yesterday, Georgia lost a battle against Russian takeover - but the fight for freedom &democracy continues. If there’s one thing yst proved, it’s that resistance hasnt disappeared. They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds. 1/12

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⚫️🐦‍⬛ 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @theskyisnotblue.bsky.social · 8d

This thread by @buziashvili.bsky.social is a must-read!👇
🇬🇪🇪🇺 #GeorgiaProtests

Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 8d

It’s been hard 24h for Georgians. Grave mistakes were made. Yesterday, Georgia lost a battle against Russian takeover - but the fight for freedom &democracy continues. If there’s one thing yst proved, it’s that resistance hasnt disappeared. They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds. 1/12

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 8d

Georgia and Ukraine are now the two main fronts against tyranny. Georgians, like Ukrainians, will never surrender. We know the price of freedom - we have paid it in blood, and we will continue to pay it. Until victory. 12/12

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 8d

What can you do? Raise Georgia’s name in your capitals, on social media, at conferences, and on international platforms. Check in with your Georgian friends - they are not okay. And check in with your Ukrainian friends too. 11/12

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 8d

I cannot express how deeply moving it’s been to see especially Ukrainians living through war sending words of encouragement and solidarity. So many people from different countries have been posting online - their messages are heartbreaking and heartening at once. 10/12

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