Putin congratulated Scholz on his election as long time leader Angela Merkel’s successor, and noted that he’s had plenty of experience dealing with Russia as the mayor of Hamburg, St. Petersburg’s sister city. Tuesday’s call came a day after Moscow expelled two German diplomats in reprisal for Berlin’s expulsion of …
Read More »Russia shows German diplomats the door
It comes just days after Berlin showed two Russian envoys the door after a German court sentenced a Russian national to life in prison over the murder of a Chechen separatist, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, in 2019. Khangoshvili had been wanted in Russia on multiple charges. Three years prior, he had moved to Germany …
Read More »Russia demands YouTube restore RT’s German broadcast channel
Regulator Roskomnadzor, has sent a notice to Google, YouTube’s parent company demanding that the platform lift all restrictions on the channel, which allowed internet audiences to watch RT’s newly launched around-the-clock German-language broadcasts live. YouTube took down RT auf Sendung (RT On the Air) five hours after it began showing …
Read More »RT launches long-awaited German TV broadcast
Among other programs, the channel will broadcast news, talk shows, and documentaries, including ‘Fasbenders Woche’, featuring a prominent German journalist, Thomas Fasbender. “We will do everything in our power not to disappoint our German-speaking audience,” RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan said. The audience for RT’s German language online platform, RT DE, …
Read More »New German foreign minister calls for renewed talks on eastern Ukraine
Speaking during a trip to Stockholm, Annalena Baerbock suggested restarting the Normandy Format talks – named after those first held informally in Normandy seven years ago – between Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and France, with the aim of bringing peace to the region. The conflict in the Donbass, in eastern Ukraine, …
Read More »German MPs elect new chancellor after 16 years of Merkel rule
The new chancellor received 395 votes for his candidacy. Scholz needed the support of at least 369 lawmakers – an absolute majority – out of 736 Bundestag MPs. The three-party government coalition he heads occupies 416 seats in the Lower House of the German Parliament. His election marks a major …
Read More »NATO risks crossing Russian ‘red lines’ – influential German diplomat
Speaking as part of an interview with German daily Handelsblatt on Saturday, Wolfgang Ischinger claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin “has long been haunted by the fear” that America still wanted to make Ukraine and Georgia members of the organization. The chair of the overwhelmingly pro-NATO event acknowledged this was a …
Read More »Anti-vaxxers are society’s grumbling ‘appendix’, German comedian claims
Sarah Bosetti, who hosts a satirical podcast on German public broadcast network ZDF, made the controversial remarks in the latest episode on Friday, before doubling down on them on her Twitter. In the clip, she rants about the emergence of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, as well as about those …
Read More »German Greens slam new US sanctions on Nord Stream 2
The Greens are likely to be part of the country’s next governing coalition, set to be announced imminently, almost two months after the federal election in September. The party is known to have a hawkish stance on relations with Moscow, and opposed the pipeline’s construction from day one. “The new …
Read More »Joshua Kimmich ‘set to miss out on $440,000’ amid strict German rules for unvaccinated workers forced to quarantine
It was announced on Tuesday that Kimmich was among five players in the Germany squad who had been placed into quarantine after teammate Niklas Sule – who is fully vaccinated and was asymptomatic – tested positive for Covid. Sule and Kimmich, along with Serge Gnabry, Jamal Musiala and Karim Adeyemi, were asked to …
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