Lyudmyla Kozlovska

Safe nowhere.

Authoritarian regimes learned how to abuse FATF-based #AML rules, cybersecurity law, MLATs and #INTERPOL to freeze your accounts, harvest your data and end your relationships with banks and donors, on American and European soil.

It was done to me: serving #Kazakh police officers, posing as private victims, filed a complaint in a Belgian court to obtain my passport records, travel data, including Schengen crossings, hotel bills in Miami and Washington, bank movements and private emails.

We describe how #Bitcoin privacy payments and other encrypted tools play crucial role as remedies against transnational financial repression.

Endlessly grateful to Hoover Institution for lighting this up. Read our article with

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https://www.thefreedomfrequency.org/p/the-rise-of-transnational-financial

2025 was an incredibly rewarding year, full of unexpected gifts and meaningful opportunities. With Open Dialogue Foundation, we continued supporting people where it mattered most.

We assisted in delivering hundreds of bionic hands to veterans in Ukraine, exposed in the U.S. Congress and European Parliament the weaponisation of behavioural data, Silver and Purple Notice of #INTERPOL and shed light on transnational financial repression by authoritarian regimes like #Kazakhstan, #Kyrgyzstan, and Russia reaching EU and U.S. citizens and entities.

We contributed proudly to stopping Chat Control regulation again and shared personal stories reminding why we should be especially active in protecting the privacy of payments, communications, and their developers in the digital era.

Encryption of communication and #Bitcoin are the two tools serving as fundamental guarantees for human rights in the digital era.

On a personal note, after years of separation and health challenges, long-pending divorce papers were finally granted this year, and I fully regained my health.

I'm deeply grateful for the people, lessons, and moments that shaped this year. Looking ahead to another wonderful one.

Photo credits: @mkphotons