Marcus Kolga 🇨🇦🇪🇪🇺🇦
@kolga
Human rights, democracy, Magnitsky, fighting disinfo. Sanctioned by Moscow and Bejing. @disinfow @TheRWCHR @upnorthmagazine @CDAInstitute @MLInstitute
3 years ago, I rejected an award from Estonia’s then-far-right Interior Minister whose EKRE party members have supported racism, homophobia, and antisemitism. I remain as unyielding in my values + principles today.
Today I made the unpleasant decision to reject an award from Estonia’s Interior Min due to repeated homophobic & racist statements made by the Minister Mart Helme. Please PM @ratasjuri, pull your gov’t out of EKRE’s gutter. Estonians deserve better. m.delfi.ee/eesti/article.…
China is a key supplier of components used in Russian Shahed/Geran drones that terrorize and kill Ukrainian civilians every night. Canada + allies must increase sanctions pressure on China now to disrupt this deadly supply chain. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
Another provocation from Minsk: a drone entered Lithuanian airspace from Belarus. Lukashenka’s regime continues to test its neighbors’ patience. @LithuaniaMFA says if it’s confirmed to be a combat drone, there’ll be a response. The dictator remains a threat to Europe’s security.
Today, Ukraine marks the Day of Mourning and Remembrance for the Defenders of Ukraine, Members of Volunteer Formations, and Civilians who were Executed, Tortured, or Died in Captivity. Вічная Пам’ять. #russiaisaterroriststate
Russian soldiers put a noose around a 3-year-old's neck, beat him, put burning cigarettes out on his face and then forced him to watch as they beat and raped his mother. Russia is a terrorist state.
Russian soldiers tortured a 3-year-old boy and forced him to watch them sexually assault and kill his mother during the occupation of Kherson. His aunt was able to evacuate him to Odesa, a journey that took three days, she told @suspilne_news in an interview in 2024.
"the Soviet and current Russian governments have manipulated that history for political advantage.... Setting the record straight means re-surfacing the alliance between Stalin and Hitler from 1939 to 1941" writes Canada's Ambassador in Moscow @sarahjhtaylor
"The legacy of the Murmansk convoys is an important counter to two strands of current Russia propaganda." @policy_mag Dispatches #SummerReads Canada's Ambassador to Russia @sarahjhtaylor with "Truth and Remembrance: A Trip to the Russian Arctic" bit.ly/4fkhukA #cdnpoli
After five years, my husband @tsikhanouski_s is finally free, and our family is reunited. But many others remain behind bars. We spoke with @markmackinnon at @globeandmail about our reunion, our hopes, and how we continue the fight for a free Belarus. theglobeandmail.com/world/article-…
No one with a brain.
Russian diplomats are now promoting the anniversary of Moscow’s 1940 occupation of the Baltic states, which was made possible by the Soviet alliance with Nazi Germany. Does anyone still seriously believe Putin’s imperial ambitions end at Ukraine?
"As innocent Ukrainian civilians endure relentless nightly bombardments... we cannot afford to hesitate," writes @kolga. "Holding the Chinese private & government entities... to account will help save innocent Ukrainian lives." macdonaldlaurier.ca/canada-must-sa…
Orban is reducing Hungary to a Kremlin vassal, scheming a new pipeline to pump Moscow’s poison into Europe. Time to cut him and his regime out of the EU and NATO before they cause more harm to European interests. euractiv.com/section/eet/ne…
🇳🇴 Norway is shifting from hygge to high alert. From cozy candles to cold realism: Oslo now warns of the most dangerous security environment since WWII writes @MartKuldkepp @NorwayMFA upnorth.eu/from-hygge-to-…
Useful historical info.
Great thread below on how the KGB helped create the PLO to destabilize and ultimately destroy Israel. Here’s a short clip on this topic as well, which goes into further details about Yasser Arafat’s relationship with the Soviets.
Just about to join the great @ArleneBynonShow to talk about Ukraine, Donald Trump, Russia + sanctions.
A busy #Friday we have for you on @ArleneBynonShow Bombshell report from #WSJ, #Carney meets with #FirstNations, & #Colbert cancelled from #LateNight @MicheleCadario @WalshFreedom @DavidColetto @kolga @zackcrawford3 for #PoliticalPunch we have @mtmdiamond & @lisakirbie
Further laying the groundwork for the next phase of Putin’s war on Europe and the free world. It would be so much safer, easier, and cheaper to give the brave Ukrainians what they need to stop Russia now instead.
Disgusting and unbelievable (in fact, not). In Moscow, the government-installed billboards inform the public that Baltic nations are not real nations, are run by nationalists, and @kajakallas, the former prime minister of Estonia is a "lap dog". The Putin's government has gone…
The Estonian logic -- that every Russian tank destroyed with a Javelin in Ukraine is a Russian tank that cannot invade Estonia -- should be universal throughout the EU/NATO zone now. Give all your best kit to Ukraine now, get newer kit from the U.S. later.
“I don’t understand why Mr. Trump needs another 50 days to see what Putin’s intentions really are. We’ve had 25 years to learn this.” On @ErinBurnett @OutFrontCNN tonight to discuss the new U.S. deadline given to Putin for a ceasefire in Ukraine.
Yup, they work! The Estonian Defence Forces @Kaitsevagi trained with their very own HIMARS for the first time today.
Canada’s mission leading the @NATO EFP in Latvia “is probably the most important mission of the Canadian Armed Forces since the liberation of the Netherlands in World War II”. My interview with @letanewsen published in @thebaltictimes. @CanadianForces baltictimes.com/latvia_and_can…
