Inese Īris Liepiņa

Living with nature home

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As Putin enlarged NATO trying to destroy it, the US military just saw the insanity at the top, and had the ability to decide together in person to defend the US, not the insanity when push comes to shove.

Moldova's pro-EU party wins vote mired in claims of Russian interference The election was seen as critical for Moldova's EU path, and President Maia Sandu warned the country's future was in danger.

Congratulations Moldova, you beat Russia!!!🇲🇩🇪🇺
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#Francesk🇨🇦 (@franann61) The Polish Ambassador to the Russians at the Security Council. “You have been warned.”

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Opinion | If Only We’d Fight as Hard to Save Our Democracy as Ukrainians Are to Save Theirs

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Russia Expands the Air War Views from Warsaw and Kyiv

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I’ve knit it a few times 🙂

The Oxfordshire man who drives to Ukraine to deliver aid For the past three years carpenter Matt has been distributing aid to the city of Sumy.

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Opinion | Something Extraordinary Is Happening in My Country

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YouTube video by Jacob Collier Jacob Collier Improvises the National Symphony Orchestra (Live from the Kennedy Center)

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Pets Can’t Stop Watching ‘Flow,’ the Oscar-Winning Cat Movie “Flow,” a dialogue-free animated Latvian film made with open-source software, is keeping our domesticated friends riveted.

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Ancient Baltic music to massage your soul, then go and watch Flow again. Healing is in our DNA.

Ros Atkins on...the fight for Ukraine's critical minerals The BBC's Analysis Editor Ros Atkins looks at why the US wants access to Ukraine's minerals.

Fighting Russia on one side and US blackmail on the other
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Opinion | With Trump’s Prostration to Putin, Expect a More Dangerous World This is a humiliating month to be an American.

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Can Europe and UK persuade Trump they're relevant to Ukraine's future? Europe's hastily convened security summit in Paris is proof of leaders' anxiety about their role in defending Ukraine, the BBC's Katya Adler writes.

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One Wordless, Animated Cat Movie. Two Oscar Nominations. Gints Zilbalodis’s “Flow” is the first Latvian film to get Academy Award nods, for animated feature and international feature. The director talks about the film’s journey.

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Baltic states begin historic switch away from Russian power grid More than 30 years after leaving the Soviet Union, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania will join the EU's grid.

Fingers crossed 🤞

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Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.

The lack of empathy and humanity in Trump and Musk is horrifying. May a malaria mosquito bite them both.

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