Posts Tagged
Russia-Germany relations

• 

  2019/11/07 - 11:43 • International, Op-ed

  Portnikov: Why Berlin saves Putin’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline

  The German tabloid Bild informed its readers about the decision by the Bundestag’s ruling coalition to change the rules for the operation of the not-yet-completed Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. According to European law, this gas...

  Read article

• 

  2019/08/21 - 10:39 • International, Op-ed

  Nord Stream 2 harming environment inside Russia, Greenpeace Russia says

  Environmental activists have warned that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline threatens the Baltic Sea; now, Greenpeace Russia has documented that the company building it has violated Russian environmental laws by damaging nature preserves...

  Read article

• 

  2019/04/03 - 12:42 • Hybrid War, International

  Putin regime has set up not one but five ‘fifth columns’ in...

  In the third article of his series on Moscow’s influence operations in the West, Igor Eidman says that Putin has established five “fifth columns” in Germany. In many Western countries, Moscow has used a carrot and stick approach to...

  Read article

• 

  2018/12/03 - 12:46 • International, More, Russian Aggression

  Putin has crossed a Rubicon – Will the West respond?

  Vladimir Putin has now done openly what he has denied doing in the past and what most Western leaders have shamefully accepted as an excuse not to face up to his aggression: In the case of the Kerch Straits naval action, Putin has used...

  Read article

• 

  2018/09/03 - 13:03 • International, More

  Putin actively using Cold War Stasi agent network in Germany, Reitschuster says

  Boris Reitschuster, author of Putin’s Secret War, says that the Kremlin is “actively using the old agent network” that the East German intelligence service set up in the West during the Cold War not only to achieve specific foreign...

  Read article

• 

  2017/05/08 - 10:22 • Archive

  Moscow completely restores and promotes Stalinist conception of WW2, Pavlova says

  The Putin regime not only has completely restored the Stalinist conception of World War II but is promoting it in the media and the schools in ways that will make it ever more difficult for Russians to break out of that ideological...

  Read article

• 

  2017/04/22 - 11:05 • International, More

  Putin reaffirms Stalinist version of origins of World War II, Pavlova says

  No issue is as sensitive in Russian society as World War II, a conflict Russians call “The Great Fatherland War,” and consequently no shift in its interpretation by senior officials provides a better indication about the priorities and...

  Read article

• 

  2017/03/10 - 07:11 • International, More, Op-ed

  Russian propaganda exploits German feeling guilt for attacking USSR – Yuriy Durkot

  Since Ukraine gained its independence in 1991, Ukrainian journalist, publicist and translator Yuriy Durkot has been developing Ukrainian-German relations in a variety of ways. From 1995 till 2000, he served as a Press Officer of the...

  Read article

• 

  2017/02/10 - 00:21 • Op-ed

  The Kremlin resumes its war against Ukraine, how should the EU react?...

  The arms never rested in Donbas. But now the war escalated again. The city of Avdiivka is bombarded from heavy artillery and rockets located in the living areas of Donetsk. Up to 20.000 people had to flee for their lives. Under extremely...

  Read article

• 

  2016/09/24 - 11:41 • History, More

  77 years ago, Nazi and Soviet forces celebrated their joint defeat of...

  Many people forget that Stalin’s Soviet Union and Hitler’s Third Reich were allies in the beginning of the World War II. This week includes an anniversary the Kremlin didn’t want anyone to mark or even remember: 77 years...

  Read article