Tanja Maier
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Russian-speaking Arizonan in Wien. Canada born. Maiden name ends in ić. Mom of 3. Currently 🇺🇦 🛒 🇦🇹 my Substack is free
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I just got on the
@rzd_official
No. 2 train from
#moscow
to
#vladivostok
. This
#transsiberian
route is over 9200km, the longest single train ride in the world. It will take 6 days and change in one direction. THREAD (I’ll add throughout the journey):
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Evening 🧵. Residents of Ichnya, Chernihov oblast get Russian tanks to turn around simply by standing in the road. Source реальная Украина telegram.
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Tell me a scary story in German with just one word. I’ll go first.
Elternabend.
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And a quick video from Zelensky showing they are all together in Kyiv
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Omg it’s amazing. First one: how to pretend you are an American tourist when the police try to arrest you on Saturday:
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@bariweiss
I unsubscribed yesterday. I’m 40+ don’t feel woke or liberal just human. A politician inciting racial hatred and state violence against its citizens should not be given a platform like NYT to do so. It reminded me of Germany 1930s when the media was like ok new normal etc.
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Husband is watching Sky in the background. They report Poland opened its border to all Ukrainians including those without photo ID, without vaccine certificates, people may enter with pets. In other words, bravo Poland. We all must help like Poland does. You awake, Austria?
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I think it’s fair to say upper middle class Moscow is in shock. Questions are: can we still get Schengen visas? Will Apple Pay still work? Where/how can we fly? What to do when our nanny from (insert former USSR country) quits and goes home?
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All across Austria the same story is playing out. Ukrainians who arrived here in March have run out of the money, their savings, they brought with them. They arrived in winter clothes all need summer stuff, no money to buy it, charity stocks empty.
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@franakviacorka
@Ryanair
Will the EU now finally realize why empty talk of sanctions and no action towards ruthless dictators doesn’t work?! Ryanair is headquartered in EU. I hope they will raise hell for this reckless, unprecedented endangerment of their crew and passengers.
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Source: Realny Kiev telegram which is also now reporting that one single Ukrainian fighter pilot took down 6 Russian planes in a span of 30 hours including an SU-35!
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Several 🇺🇦-plated cars were vandalized last night in the 22nd district of Vienna near Seestadt. This was brought to my attention by a member of my Telegram group, citing an auto chat group. They have reported the incidents to the police.
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This is the article I’ve been waiting years for. Here it all is, in plain English. Official Austria quite literally bought by Russia exposed. In the Washington Post, no less.
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The new Zib TikTok account is by far the best thing ORF has done in years. This will do far more to educate young voters about what is happening in Austria than all the tabloids put together. Please give these brilliant young journalists a raise ASAP. Check it out:
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Powerful stuff from the premier league tonight both Everton and Man City with Ukrainian players full video here
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I think I am going to download TikTok and dive down a Russian rabbit hole. These kids are incredible: both smart and fearless. And they have known nothing else than Putin’s Russia.
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@franakviacorka
@Ryanair
An Irish-owned plane, registered in Poland, is hijacked flying from Greece to Lithuania. 4 EU countries involved. If there was ever a crisis for the EU to prove it actually stands for something other than bureaucratic red tape and the Euro, now is that coming to Jesus moment.
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@RyanairPress
One of your passengers was kidnapped and now may be killed by a rogue state, his girlfriend who was also your passenger was arrested, and 4 KGB thugs stayed behind in Minsk, also your passengers. Well done! Out of your control. Did Batka write the press statement for you?
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Also: talking about politics became so taboo past decade that I really think a lot of them stopped consuming news entirely. Now, some women have very basic questions, and don’t know where to turn to get reliable info. That’s part of how Putin has held on for so long.
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Austria has a Russia problem. Former top politicians from three different parties, ÖVP, FPÖ, and SPÖ, currently serve on the boards of directors of major companies very close to the Kremlin. I’m surprised this doesn’t get more discussion. Sure the pay is nice, but at what cost?
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In some Moscow high schools today they carried out a special “history” lesson: they told teens it is not a war, it is a “special operation”. Some kids stood up and left, others cried who have relatives in Ukraine.
Worse than 1984. All of it.
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A Viennese pensioner came looking for me at the ÖBB kassa. He brought the clipping of the Heute article. He wants to buy €10,000 of Hofer gift cards for Ukrainian families. We exchanged numbers. He will bring them next week. I was obviously crying. I simply couldn’t believe it.
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Simba from Kharkiv is now on his way by train to Munich. His owners gave me permission to take his photo. A brief update from Vienna’s main train station this morning. 🧵
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Hey
@raiffeisen_at
when you advertise free backpacks for kids who open bank accounts, and a Ukrainian family spends one and a half hours trying to open a child account, and is then told sorry backpacks are only for Austrian kids, what do you call that in German? Is there a word?
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They say this video will not be shown in Russia. A Ukrainian hospital treating wounded Russian soldiers. Source: анонимно Чернигов telegram.
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The state money promised to them by the Austrian government is woefully inadequate for today’s prices. Even worse, many, a very significant minority, have not received a single Euro yet. The number of mess ups and lost files and bureaucratic excuses is astounding. All over.
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This is hilarious. A guy interrupts an Israeli news broadcast to tell them to stop with the bullshit and start doing something to fight Russia. Source хуев@й мариуполь telegram.
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Last I promise! If you have Ukrainian kids in your child’s school or kindergarten, ask the moms if they need clothes, shoes. If you are out grocery shopping, ask a 🇺🇦 family if you can pay. They are proud people but in my experience 9 times of 10 when help is offered they accept.
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Evening 🧵. Ukraine’s defense minister writes this tonight. How much do you feel this photo, right?
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Zelensky who prob hasn’t slept in days just posted this on his Telegram. Says we are defending our country, we have not been defeated, there is no evacuation per some fake news going around. We are defending our land, our country, our children. Signs off with glory to Ukraine.
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Emotional video from Kyiv mayor Vitaly Klitschko tonight. There are subversive groups active in the capital tonight. Russians are attacking residential areas. Stay safe stay strong and words about Russia’s ruthless behavior and Ukraine’s bravity. Full here
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@lapatina_
Here is the video:
Русский мародер заменил бронепластину в своем бронике на украденный ноутбук
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@lindayacc
Losing 50% of your advertisers is “progress”? The toxic environment got worse with the sale of Twitter to the man you now work for. He set the new tone. I thought he hired experts like you to admit that and fix things? Denial isn’t a good look.
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The Fassmann laptops are coming for 1 & 2 AHS. We all have to pay €107.55 each, even if we already have a laptop and don't want this one! There is no opt out option. I would love to donate it to a child who actually needs it. What another colossal waste of taxpayer money.
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Very few have found full time work. It is not easy and not straightforward and the barriers to entry are many. Those living in state allocated housing complain of not being fed properly and not receiving any money to even be able to shop and cook for themselves. Yes, all over.
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@stef_friedhoff
@Bob_Wachter
In Austria we have it even better! We have at home free PCR tests, gargle saline solution for 60 seconds, 24 hour turn around drop off at school or supermarket. Back to school = kids test 3x week PCR. Also free antigen tests available everywhere: pharmacies, test lanes.
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Some things should not be online but are. I can’t share but will describe. An apartment in Schastya (ironically means Happiness and was on front line in Donbass) now LNR in Luhansk oblast. Apartment in broken glass and ruins, balcony blown off, the grandfather dead on the floor.
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Kharkov Life telegram is reporting Sumy is now in Ukrainian control. There are still Russian invaders in the city, Sumy administration says, but no one is surrendering to the enemy.
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In Chernihiv region they took a Russian solider prisoner. He was born in 2004 and was asking locals for food. They filmed him and made him say his name, rank, home town, and asked, do you need a war in Ukraine? I'm not going to post that one. Source: Anonimo Chernigov telegram.
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Those in dorms are the unlucky ones. Who didn’t find Austrian families or have enough funds to rent an apartment. Now they are told if they find jobs that pay they will lose their housing and little state money. So basically, the entire message is: Ukrainians, leave Austria.
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Don’t come here unless you can afford to support yourselves. We are hearing horrible stories of abuse and manipulation and I fear there are many more we simply haven’t heard yet. That people are literally begging for €50 Hofer cards tells you how dire the situation is. That bad.
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Wanting to keep people separated from society, not integrated, not working, not paying taxes, shows an utter lack of understanding about how economies grow and thrive from those in charge of the Austrian response. You want Ukrainians employed, earning fair wages! Econ 101!
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Also if I can write this thread sitting in my car in a Hofer parking lot, the government can do its job which taxpayers pay it to do. Responsibility. A word many seem to have forgotten. Humanity. Dignity. Doing the right thing. The circus for the cameras isn’t fooling anyone.
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Now I go back to work. My Ted Talk is simple.
Money now. Housing now. Jobs now.
I met two women going to work for an Austrian ski manufacturer yesterday. Not war zone refugees though. They came from western Ukraine bc their friend got them the job. Typical.
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Western Ukraine. Making own anti-tank “hedgehogs” as they say in Russian. I am reminded of those on the outskirts of Moscow as you drive to Sheremetyevo airport as a memorial to where the Nazi tanks got to in WWII.
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When this is all over, every freedom loving person who can afford it should take their next vacation in Ukraine. The economy is going to need all the help it can get rebuilding lives and infrastructure. A country of heroes.
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Kyiv tonight. Seems like a good place to end 🧵. Will do another one tomorrow morning. 🙏🏻 🇺🇦
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I just got back from the train station. Today was a blur. I cried and cried and cried again. You meet people, for 30 min, an hour, you get pulled into their personal tragedy, their story, you try and help for a fleeting moment to solve an immediate problem, and then you leave.
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New afternoon 🧵. An urgent appeal in English from Kyiv’s mayor Klitschko. Source реальная Украина telegram.
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@olgatokariuk
Such an important point. Austrian TV news still presenting “Moscow says…” while having just called Bucha a massacre. Why do we need to hear what Moscow says when they just murdered hundreds of innocent civilians?
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Sonya is 13, from Kyiv, now in a town near Vienna. She would like to sell her oil paintings and the proceeds will go to a charity in Ukraine. Her “studio” is closed for summer, so they asked me if we could help share her art online. Please DM me for Sonya’s mom’s contact info.
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@ASlavitt
My friend (41 yo) had Covid-19 in France. She is now experiencing some health issues suspected to be related. When she saw a doctor about those issues last week, she was immediately invited to participate in a clinical study of Covid-19 survivors and their LT side effects.
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Air defense (I have no military vocab sorry) at work in Odesa. Also реальный Киев telegram.
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Yuzhne, Odessa oblast. “There is no bread, there is no salt, get the fuck out of our land”
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Virologist in chief. I think we need to redefine “intellectual” in Austrian to take into account the anti-science insanity of the Falter bubble. I’m not thanking anyone. I’m angry I’m forced to choose between my kids’ health and them passing another school year.
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And this is the pile of lies they are being fed in Russia. He appears to have a TikTok but no blue tick. I share because the world should know the lies being fed to the Russian public. Meanwhile *Ukraine* is informing Russian soldier families if their sons are dead or POWs.
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@into_the_brush
@chick_in_kiev
I am so sorry. Here in Austria there is a national hotline and then they come test you AT HOME. For free of course because public medicine. I hope this will go viral and you will get tested and treatment soon.
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So we are on our way to the Die Presse Austria 22 Gala and I am super nervous. Thank you all so much for voting what an honor! My dress blond hair and makeup are all courtesy of 🇺🇦💙💛
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Wow this kind of all went viral. I’m a Russian-speaking American living in Vienna. I was briefly in Kyiv area early Feb. I write a Substack each morning Europe time. These days it’s very much Russia-Ukraine. It’s free to subscribe. This morning’s post:
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There will be no third lockdown because Austria’s government has learned an important lesson: it can let 100+ people die of covid each day and face zero consequences. No real opposition, no media pressure, totally apathetic public opinion except for a dozen folks on Twitter.
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They need blood donors. Says to international partners: these are historic moments. America, Europe, the civilised world must help Ukraine fight the agressor: asks for ban on crude imports from Russia, ban on international flights over Russia.
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Evening 🧵.
Kyiv is being bombed again per NEXTA Live.
Active fighting in Mykolaiv. This video is from a shelter there in a dorm. Unconfirmed reports a Russian division wanted to land there.
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Over the past two days, 80 refugees were forcibly moved from the Hotel Europa in Innsbruck to Obsteig. There was a room by room inspection in the hotel last night. Tea kettles were confiscated. There were many tears. The kettles are a lifeline for moms of kids who don’t eat.
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The whole Raiffeisen saga is so quintessentially Austrian. Keep your head down, convince yourselves no one will notice, eventually much later an international shitstorm follows, act surprised and innocent when you finally make international headlines for all the wrong reasons.
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I just came back from a very intense "shift" at the train station ticket counter. It isn't a shift because it's volunteer work. I had my 14yo daughter with me. Today was career day. If not for her, I wouldn't have known what to do. A huge train arrives every day from the east.
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There is one steadfast rule in Austrian politics: no matter how bad a minister is, his/her replacement will always be worse. What the actual fuck is this?!
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Morning 🧵. Governor of Mykolaiv. Good minoring, Ukraine! he says. They held the city, pushed the Russians back and seized lot of equipment. There are Russian soldiers walking around looking for food. “If you see one, feed him, and then arrest him.”
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Helped a blind man to his train. Took a family to doctor and then pharmacy (3 subway stops away). Helped Mariupol family with lunch and cash. Drove to the single mom of 2 with cash and exciting update on housing situation (Danke Burgenland!).
Going home to celebrate my bday.
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Putin recorded a video telling Ukrainian soldiers to put down their weapons and "go home", your grandfathers didn't die for you to fight for a "neo-Nazi regime".
Ukraine has a Jewish, democratically elected president.
Putin has completely lost his mind. Completely lost it.
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Thank you so much for all of your votes! The 100% most deserving woman won and it was not me. But we collect prize money too, and this buys 200 Hofer cards. DANKE and Slava Ukraini
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Austrian state TV now broadcasting a discussion among editors-in-chief who (most? all?) receive massive state subsidies to keep their media afloat.
It’s beautiful, this Austrian way. A work of art, one could argue.
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A Russian bomb hit this man’s kitchen in his Kharkiv apartment. He says very calmly in perfect likely native Russian “25 Feb 2022 that’s what our war with Russia looks like a bomb in my kitchen”. Source: хуевая Одесса telegram.
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So far 6 babies have been born in bomb shelters. In Kyiv today twins were born while the sirens rang. “life goes on and we aren’t giving up”
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The previous was a TikTok. Donetsk is under heavy shelling tonight, also TikTok, made by a man who is probably the last one left in the city not yet drafted. He said the other day they gave him the evil eye at the store. Must be well connected.
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@nolanwpeterson
Their mayor just now:
Mayor of Mariupol Vadim Boychenko is an inspiration. They are under attack. Civilian casualties. Shot down 1 🇷🇺 ✈️. Secured flour baked 10 tons of 🥖 overnight for city, mandated price controls. He speaks of total coordination by city govt. Full video here
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A Ukrainian woman calmly shows the bomb shelter they made in their cellar where they used to store potatoes and preserves. 5 people fit in there. Don’t know the town.
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Just saw another TikTok from Donetsk of a blast through the window glass on an apartment as the person was filming it. They must have phones everywhere filming everything at this point. Incredibly scary. Kievsky region its closest to DNR historic front line.
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I made one huge miscalculation.
I thought by distributing €50 grocery store gift cards to Ukrainian refugees in Austria we would illustrate a massive state failure and embarrass the federal government into action.
Instead, they are just like cool, let’s recess for summer.
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If Tirol spoke a Slavic language we would have already sealed all borders, sent the army to patrol smaller crossings, and bad mouthed the entire region and its lack of public health protocols to any journalist willing to listen. It’s not personal, we would say. Austria first etc.
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A video on NEXTA Live telegram of a Russian major POW. When the Ukrainian soldiers realize his rank, they rip off his insignia, and all make him say glory to Ukraine to the camera. The Russian major is in the fetal position in his camo as if hiding somewhere and they found him.
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My Moscow feed went silent. The mommy groups have moved to telegram and are scared to write anything. Soon the only way to get real info out of Moscow will be old fashioned phone calls on fixed lines, and who still has those? I fear Fortress Russia = information black hole.
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This sign says “bitches get the fuck out of Ukraine and our village — grandma Nadya” in Migalki. From реальный Киев telegram.
Also reporting Zelensky has asked Israel’s prime minister to mediate to organize talks with Putin.
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Could someone in media please ask the people in charge of the Ukrainian refugee response within Austria’s government why many families have been here for 6+ weeks and still haven’t received any money from the state? We are hearing the same thing over and over. Across the country.
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Briefing now from a Ukrainian government spokesman (Podoyaka). Says Russian plan is to use terrorist methods within cities including against civilians. Russia wants to divide and conquer but Ukraine understands what to do "our boys are fighting for their motherland".
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Just a tiny example but I gave our Ukrainian neighbor a €50 gift card this week for an affordable shoe store chain in Vienna. It’s hot now. She is thrilled and just sent me this photo. It’s little things. But a million of them. For millions of people. All over Europe.
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@sebastiankurz
There is WWIII on Austria’s doorstep and you are tweeting about yourself trying to clear your already tarnished name, an entirely self created problem. People are dying just a day’s drive from Vienna under Russian air attacks. Read the room. Have fun with Thiel.
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@nytimes
Austria and Sweden are roughly the same size in terms of population, yet in Sweden the official COVID-19 death rate has been at least 4x higher than in Austria which locked down mid-March and is now slowly reopening. Success story Sweden is not.
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Moscow and Moscow oblast are running out of insulin, apparently. I’m really surprised by this you would think there would be a Russian made generic. Perhaps it was panic buying as everyone is worried about medicines disappearing from the market.
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This morning I met a group of Ukrainian moms who travelled from deep Lower Austria near Amstetten where they are housed in a hotel, “fed”, and also told to work for free in the kitchen, garden, etc by the hotel owners. They do not receive social benefits because “full board”.
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I am very honored to be nominated for Austrian of the year in the Humanitarian category by Die Presse.
I said, but I’m not Austrian! They said, it’s ok!
Anyone can vote using link below. The top 3 of 5 will receive €10,000 each (aka 200 Hofer cards!)
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Of course ironic that the areas which have seen war for the past 8 years, DNR and LNR, are now the quietest parts of the country, as Russia ruthlessly attacks the rest of Ukraine with all of its might. For nothing. For simply existing and not loving Putin.
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This is what it looks like when you protest Putin's war
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Oligopoly means a few businesses essentially control a market. Austrian supermarkets, for example. 3 national chains. I am shocked by how much a shop is costing now. I don’t think you can explain it all with “inflation”. They jacked up the prices of basic items bc they believe
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No masks. No bubbles. 100,000 fans. In Austria. This weekend. What could go wrong? Unfuckingbelievable.
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I will never understand why it is that desperate people who fled Russian bombs and war are treated like prisoners by the organizations charged with providing for their basic needs. No one is demanding the Ritz. But to be able to make your kid porridge, this is a normal desire.
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@RottenInDenmark
@chick_in_kiev
And the “you can still order pills online” because that’s super helpful when you are a teen without a credit card and have to hide the abortion from your parents or you are homeless and have no mailing address etc etc.
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A Ukrainian baby girl was born recently in Austria.
The parents tell the police they had a baby (for blue card).
Ok but you need a Meldezettel (registration at home address).
Can’t get a Meldezettel without a birth certificate.
Can’t get health insurance without a
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