Tag: Soviet Union
A “Wolf Warrior” turns Europe against China
Lu Shaye China’s ambassador in Paris causes a diplomatic scandal. (Photo: imago images / Xinhua) Brussels One of the biggest obstacles to China’s diplomacy is China’s own diplomats: what was…
Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has a good chance of a second term
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas Despite high inflation of 18 percent, Kallas’ political course continues to be well received by voters. (Photo: AP) Stockholm Kaja Kallas knows how to stage…
Will Moldova become the second Ukraine? “We urgently need Europe’s support”
Ms. Mihailov, the head of Moldova’s secret service, said in an interview on Monday that a Russian attack on Moldova was imminent in 2023. It’s just not clear when. January…
Mikhail Gorbachev is dead
Berlin Mikhail Gorbachev’s death is symbolic: he is stepping off the world stage at a time when the world is once again radically changing—starting from his native Russia and going…
Never again war – the forgotten saying of Mikhail Gorbachev
the man who abolished the KGB agent Vladimir Putin, but enabled him again as agent leader ten years later, is dead: Mikhail Gorbachev. In the 1980s in the Soviet Union,…
Soviet Union: Mikhail Gorbachev is dead
Mikhail Gorbachev The former Soviet President has died. (Photo: dpa) Moscow According to Russian agencies, the Russian Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Soviet head of state Mikhail Gorbachev is…
The Russians long for the Soviet empire
Who is to blame that this war in the middle of Europe has not stopped for two and a half months? In his keynote address before the invasion of Ukraine,…
First president of independent Ukraine is dead
Leonid Kravchuk Kravchuk was elected Ukrainian head of state in December 1991. (Photo: Imago) Kyiv According to media reports, the first president of independent Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, is dead. Kravchuk…
Showdown between Macron and Le Pen
there they were sitting in the TV studio last night like they were five years ago: Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. Both anxious not to do anything wrong in…
The Chancellor and the Fear of Putin – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
Vladimir Putin’s TNT terror is a two-hour flight from Munich or Berlin. Two hours? In reality, the Kremlin kleptocrate’s war on freedom is much closer – it’s in our heads.…
The Political Comeback of War – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
we thought we were dealing with a “chess player”, not a war criminal. We believed he was playing by the rules and not betting his own. We figured he just…
The false messenger of peace from Donbass – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
These days we remember a piece of wisdom from Otto von Bismarck. The “Iron Chancellor” once said that “there was never as much lying as before the election, during the…
Putin’s “Invasion”, Stalin’s Legacy – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
it’s not about Crimea anymore. It is no longer about the Donbass. It’s all about Ukraine. And at some point it’s about Georgia and other states that were once part…
Concerns about Ukraine – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
Another week of waiting for war lies ahead of Europe. And you don’t even know what you should now consider more unbelievable: That Vladimir Putin with his battalions deployed on…
The most important new publications about Putin’s empire
Wladimir Putin Will he draw the army card? (Photo: Sputnik Photo Agency) One simply has to “believe in Russia”, the Russian poet and diplomat Fyodor Tyuchev said back in the…
Why an oligarch puts millions into German solar technology
Piotr Kondrashov Shares in a Russian potash producer made the investor rich. (Photo: Renee Del Missier) Vienna Piotr Kondrashov is said to be a billionaire oligarch, writes the business magazine…
Aussiedler drama: “Germany is leaving my mother in the lurch” | Regional
Sergej Schneider (55) came to Germany in 1997 as a resettler from Kazakhstan. His mother Natalia Schneider (83) is not allowed to follow. Read with BILDplus why the old woman…