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Paradoxes of Russophobia

14 July 2022

A guest on Markus Lanz’s ZDF show on 7 July 2022, former German Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel underlined the absurdity of Germany’s energy policy.
German citizens are urged to stop taking hot showers to appease the demand of the Greens that Russian gas should not be purchased due to the war in (...)

Poland resurrects issue of WWII damage

4 July 2022

During a speech given at Bialystok, the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, leader of the Law and Justice Party and de facto president of his country, Yaroslav Kaczynski, said that his country should not buckle on the issue of war damages.
Germany considers that it has already overpaid for the (...)

Foreign Affairs adviser to Chancellor Olaf Scholz open to Russia

22 June 2022

Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s foreign affairs adviser, diplomat Jens Plötner, stated that debates over Germany’s support for Ukraine are "driven by a feverishness that often overlooks the most important points".
He lamented that this issue is approached with a bias and that there are no substantive (...)

Scholtz government sanctions Gerhard Schröder

21 May 2022

The German government has stripped former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of his privileges to sanction him for his support for Russia.
As former Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder had a large office not far from the Russian Embassy. In addition, he received a monthly allowance. All for a total of 407,000 (...)

German secret service makes 17,000 Wikipedia edits

21 April 2022

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung revealed that the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) - which oversees the internet data of both Germany’s foreign intelligence agency (Federal Office for Information Security, or BND) and its domestic services (Bundesverfassungsschutz, aka BfV) - (...)

Gazprom winds up operations in Germany

6 April 2022

Russian giant Gazprom, the largest gas extraction and trading company in the world, halted all its activities in Germany as of 1 April 2022.
Before Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, Gazprom operated the Nord Stream gas pipeline and supervised the construction of a second gas pipeline, Nord (...)

Germany set to expel around 100 Russian diplomats

5 April 2022

The government of Olaf Scholz is preparing to expel almost all Russian diplomats stationed in Germany.
The government is expected to accuse them of spying, but has no new facts to put forward. This move should reduce diplomatic relations between the two countries to a (...)

Gerhard Schröder charged with crimes against humanity

11 March 2022

A criminal complaint against former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder for crimes against humanity has been filed with the public prosecutor’s office in Hanover (Germany).
Gerhard Schröder and former French President Jacques Chirac defied the Straussians during the war against Iraq. They had been (...)

Germany bans Russia Today (RT) channel

3 February 2022

On 2 February 2022, the German Media Regulatory Authority (Kommission für Lizensierung und Aufsicht) banned Russian state broadcaster Russia Today from its territory, be it via satellite or the internet.
The Russian Foreign Ministry promised to take retaliatory measures.
The German-language RT (...)

Cost of Germany’s climate policy

8 November 2021

The Federation of German Industries (BDI) and the Boston Consulting Group estimate at 860 billion euros the cost of adapting the country’s facilities to the climate objectives adopted by the Merkel government for 2030.
The Federation is therefore asking the German state for 280 billion euros (...)

“Being Open, Despite the Past”

by Vladimir Putin

Moscow (Russia) | 22 June 2021

On June 22, 1941, exactly 80 years ago, the Nazis, having conquered practically the whole of Europe, attacked the USSR. For the Soviet people the Great Patriotic War – the bloodiest one in the history of our country – began. Tens of millions of people lost their lives, the economic potential of (...)

German cars and water shortage in Guinea

26 May 2021

The German automobile industry is heavily reliant on aluminum production and therefore on the import of Guinean bauxite.
Therefore, over the past five yers, the federal government has granted $ 293 million to mining companies in Guinea as a guarantee.
However, a petition signed by more than (...)

German academics lambast management of health pandemic

3 June 2020

On 9 May 2020, an employee of a German Interior Ministry department called unit KM4, in charge of protecting critical infrastructure, passed on to the liberal-conservative magazine Tichys Einblick an internal document challenging the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. The ministry immediately (...)

Germany severs ties with Muslim Brotherhood

21 May 2020

For the past year, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), tasked with combating extremist groups in Germany, has been running a campaign to raise awareness among parliamentarians about the dangers posed by the Society of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB).
In a report dated (...)

German Ambitions in the Wider Middle East

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 29 January 2020

75 years after the Second World War, Germany intends to become a power on the international stage once again. It has chosen to return to the expanded Middle East. But it is difficult and dangerous to rise to this level without any experience other than (...)

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