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How Germany got Vladimir Putin so wrong

18 March 2023. Prof. Dr Wolfgang Ischinger joined the advisory board of the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium at the beginning of the year. On the sidelines of this year’s Munich Security Conference, Georgian journalist Vazha Tavberidze, who has participated in the M100 Sanssouci Colloquium several times, spoke with him for the Georgian service of Radio Free Europe (RFL/RL) about the development of Germany’s Russia policy and why Berlin got Vladimir Putin so wrong (interview in the original).

RFE/RL: Let’s start with a historical retrospective and this seminal speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2007 at the Munich Security Conference. Many now view the speech as a de facto reopening of the Cold War. Do you believe that? And, if yes, why was it not seen like that back then?

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One year war against Ukraine

24 February 2023.

“Our love of life and freedom is stronger than their hatred.”
Wladimir Klitschko in his 3rd letter from Kyiv, 13 February 2023.

Today marks the anniversary of Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine, which violated international law. For a year now, the people of Ukraine have been resisting the massive, brutal, unjustifiable invasion, which has already cost tens of thousands of victims. After this year of suffering, death, terror and devastation, we have asked some of our Ukrainian alumni to send us personal retrospectives of this year of war that has fundamentally changed their lives and those of their families and friends on 24 February 2022.

Following you will find texts by Ukrainian journalists Olesya Bida, Anastasiia Ivantsova, Olga Konsevych, Olena Kuk, Roman Melnyk, Olha Novikova, Anna Romandash and Olesya Tytarenko.

In addition, the Slovakian human rights journalist Sara Cincurova writes on her reporting experiences in Ukraine, and Sergej Sumlenny, former head of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Kyiv, on his aid tour to Izum and Kyiv.

Olesya Bida: As if each day could be the last

Olesya Bida was an editor at the independent Ukrainian medium hromadske.ua, founded in 2014 during the Maidan Revolution. She was a participant of M100YEJ in 2016.
Twitter: @OlesyaBida

That night I couldn’t get sleep. It was nearly 5 a.m. when I heard strange and very loud sounds. Now when the war has been going on for almost a year, it’s a normal thing to wake up not from the alarm clock but from the sounds of the missile attack.

That night was different and I really couldn’t realize what had happened. In a minute my husband Dmytro switched on a video with Putin’s speech. We’ve understood that the full-scale war has started.

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