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@marcuskolga.bsky.socialUkraine’s journalists are doing far more than reporting the news. They’re saving lives, defending democracy and holding communities together under round-the-clock Russian bombardment.
@rachel-pulfer.bsky.social + I reflect on our recent visit to Ukraine in today's Globe. @jhrnews.bsky.social
@marcuskolga.bsky.socialDon't look away: Russia has killed 100 Ukrainian civilians this week alone. Today, two children were killed. This is the unspeakable terror Donald Trump and the United States are rewarding. www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-ru...
@marcuskolga.bsky.socialDemocracies have a responsibility to defend activists, journalists and communities targeted by Russian, Belarusian, Iranian + PRC transnational repression. Honoured to moderate an OSCE Warsaw Human Dimensions conference TNR panel this week co-organized by @jhrnews.bsky.social @mfaestonia.bsky.social
@marcuskolga.bsky.socialFor anyone curious about US FIMI, in Vilnius or elsewhere: back in May, we published this report examining foreign influence targeting Canada through Alberta separatism, including from south of the border.
@marcuskolga.bsky.socialOvechkin may be retiring to Mordor after this season. Canada should sanction him now and send a clear message: celebrity endorsement of Putin’s regime and Russia’s criminal war must have real consequences. @hasek_dominik @Capitals @AnitaAnandMP www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/a2e82d8...
@marcuskolga.bsky.socialIt’s one thing to follow Russia’s war against Ukraine from afar. It’s another to be among those living through it every day + witness the pain and loss, but also the strength, dignity and resolve of Ukrainians who refuse to be broken. Extraordinary few days in Ukraine with JHR colleagues.
@marcuskolga.bsky.socialThe story about content authored by an unknown entity appearing in Canadian media is hardly surprising. Russian GRU agent Mikhail Mikushin studied, published,+ even volunteered on election campaigns- undetected for years. Canadian naivety about foreign influence remains a gaping vulnerability.
@marcuskolga.bsky.socialForeign influence thrives in the dark. Expose the actors, narratives and tactics, and it becomes much harder to manipulate Canadians. In The Globe and Mail, Jennie Phillips, Brian McQuinn, Matthew Taylor and I argue that awareness is the first line of defence against foreign influence.
@smikooman.bsky.socialReposted by @marcuskolga.bsky.socialBy choosing to lend his fame to Putin's corrupt and repressive political machine, Ovechkin has made himself a prominent symbol of a regime responsible for unspeakable crimes against the Ukrainian people: nightly destruction, murder, torture, rape and the forced abduction of more than 20,000 children
@marcuskolga.bsky.socialSports figures who lend their celebrity to a regime waging a brutal war against Ukraine and abducting thousands of Ukrainian children need to be held to account - including Ovechkin.
Honoured to have co-authored this with a true hockey hero - Dominik Hasek. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/a2e82d8...
@disinfowatch.bsky.socialReposted by @marcuskolga.bsky.socialA former Fox host Trish Regan is pushing Alberta referendum misinformation to her 1.34 million YouTube subscribers.
She falsely calls the Oct. 19 vote a “secession vote” and pitches Alberta as America’s “51st state.”
@marcuskolga.bsky.socialOttawa cannot tolerate Kremlin officials who abuse diplomatic cover to engage in petty anti-Ukrainian vandalism, harassment and intimidation. Former Senator Stanley Kutcher and I argue that at the very least, officials who do should be expelled. ca.news.yahoo.com/opinion-cana...
@marcuskolga.bsky.socialThe new U.S. DOJ indictment alleging Russian intelligence plots to carry out assassinations abroad should be a wake-up call for Canada .
I spoke with CBC about the wider threat of transnational repression and why Canada needs to take it far more seriously.
@marcuskolga.bsky.socialA new US DOJ indictment offers a disturbing look at how Russian intelligence targets critics abroad through assassination plots.
I co-authored this Atlantic Council report on how democracies can counter + prevent transnational repression:
@marcuskolga.bsky.socialDeeply disturbed by the threats directed at Canada's Tribute to Liberty and its chairman, Ludwik Klimkowski.
Words have consequences. Persistent and irresponsible Kremlin aligned “Nazi” smears fuel real-world intimidation and hate.
@marcuskolga.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum on MAGA ambitions towards Canada: “pressure the economy, break up the federation, pick up the pieces. And no, it is not a joke.”
@marcuskolga.bsky.socialOn CBC News to discuss the Canada–Ukraine agreement. Canada will benefit from Ukraine’s drone expertise, but Ukraine needs air-defence weapons now. Ottawa should press allies like South Korea to sell them immediately + expel Kremlin agents operating under diplomatic cover. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
@marcuskolga.bsky.socialWhile Russian drones terrorize Ukrainian civilians and kill scores night after night, Donald Trump is more concerned with protecting Vladimir Putin’s energy revenues.
One wonders what Trump’s real-estate agent discussed with Putin in Moscow. Vile. www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-po...
@disinfowatch.bsky.socialReposted by @marcuskolga.bsky.socialRussian narratives targeting Zelensky’s visit to Canada.
A network of fake Alberta websites created to shape the Alberta separatism debate with new analysis from VIGIL Strategic Intelligence on the network behind them.
All in our latest DisinfoDigest:
@nationalobserver.comReposted by @marcuskolga.bsky.socialUpdate: OpenAI says following its own investigation, prompted by this story, it has banned the account of one of the creators of this network of websites.
