Podcast
On media
April 9 2024The IBA’s Global Insight podcast — comment
Following Vladimir Putin’s election victory for a fifth term – in a vote criticised by many international observers – Global Insight considers the significance of the result, the state of rule of law in Russia, and the major challenges now facing the international community and the Kremlin.
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February 28 2023History & Politics Podcast of the Bergedorf Round Table (Körber-Stiftung) — interview
Season 2, episode 1 of the seven-part series The New Germany with historian Katja Hoyer and journalist Oliver Moody is about the Germans with Russian roots: Who are these communities? When, why and from where did they come to Germany? Have they become Germanized? How do they feel about the Russian war in Ukraine? How does Russia in turn feel about them?
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Writing
Bringing the war back to Russia // IPG 14.08.2024
The Ukrainian offensive in Kursk marks a historic moment. What implications does it hold for the country’s future and the overall course of the war?
August 14 2024
Alexei Navalny’s death: a dark culmination of Putin’s dictatorship // Vorwärts 20.02.2024
The death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny is a huge blow for the Russian resistance. But not yet everything is lost. Can his wife follow in his footsteps?
February 20 2024
Caught in a net of oppression // East-West European Perspectives 01/2023
Unlike in China, there was a free internet in Russia. But the Russian power elite increasingly sees it as a threat and is trying to regulate the net with drastic measures and has banned numerous online media after the war of aggression against Ukraine began. Nevertheless, islands of freedom remain.
January 1 2023
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