Section: Germany
Berlinale film on ‘fake news’ of Soviet-era famine holds lessons for today
Polish director Agnieszka Holland premiered a film at Berinale about the cover-up of Stalin’s mass famine in Ukraine with the complicity of the West, arguing this early example of “fake news” was still toxic today. …read more Source: The Local...
Ukraine aims to ban Russian election observers
According to a draft bill, Russian observers will be excluded from all future elections in Ukraine. The OSCE has misgivings, experts are torn between appreciation and criticism – and have offered a solution. …read more Source: Deutsche...
Ukraine’s presidential hopefuls: What you need to know
Ukrainians are set to vote for president — but there is no clear favorite. Can incumbent Petro Poroshenko retain power? How much of a threat is Yulia Tymoshenko? Or could an outsider perhaps win the race? …read more Source: Deutsche...
Ukrainian Orthodox head enthroned, Russia fuming
Ukraine’s new Orthodox Church, backed by re-election hopeful President Petro Poroshenko, has enthroned its leading cleric. Moscow is fuming over Kyiv’s break after three centuries of Russian Orthodox influence. …read more Source: Deutsche...
Ukraine: President Petro Poroshenko to seek re-election
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has announced he will run for re-election this March. The incumbent has seen his popularity slide in recent years, but no other candidate has yet emerged with a definitive lead. …read more Source: Deutsche...
Ukranian ex-president Viktor Yanukovych gets 13 years in absentia for treason
A court in Kyiv has sentenced the former president of Ukraine to more than a decade for high treason. Yanukovych is currently living in exile in Russia. …read more Source: Deutsche...
Russia’s Lavrov, Germany’s Maas talk gas pipeline, Ukraine, arms control in Moscow
Washington has told Moscow its decision to leave the INF is “final,” Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said while meeting Heiko Maas. Germany’s top diplomat urged a new, international system for arms control. …read more Source: Deutsche...
AfD worker accused of ordering arson attack in Ukraine
A Bundestag employee of the Alternative for Germany party has been accused of ordering a firebombing in Ukraine. Manuel Ochsenreiter denies all accusations, but he is known to have connections to pro-Russia separatists. …read more Source: Deutsche...
Opinion: Ukrainian Orthodox Church independence is a mistake
The secession of an Orthodox Church of Ukraine has drawn widespread criticism. But Patriarch Bartholomew I may have survived the onslaught writes DW’s Miodrag Soric. …read more Source: Deutsche...
Macron, Merkel urge ‘full’ Ukraine ceasefire ahead of planned truce
The leaders of France and Germany on Friday reiterated their call for a “solid, full and permanent ceasefire” in Ukraine’s conflict-torn east ahead of a planned cessation of hostilities. …read more Source: The Local...
