Russia and the Germans
A Com­pli­cated Affair

The impact of the Biden-Merkel-Agree­­­ment on Nord Stream 2 in Ukraine is simply dis­as­trous. Espe­cially among western ori­ented, reform-minded people trust in Germany and the US fell at a record low. China...

A com­men­tary by Ralf Fücks on Putin’s latest his­tor­i­cal policy man­i­festo, pub­lished by the Kremlin.

In this analy­ses Dmytro Shulga argues for the EU and specif­i­cally Germany to con­sider it’s own strate­gic gains in offer­ing Ukraine a way to full EU mem­ber­ship over an extended amount...

Dig­i­tal­iza­tion rep­re­sents one of the major chal­lenges of our time. Hence, it is crucial to obtain a pro­found under­stand­ing of the digital trans­for­ma­tion in order to be able to design and steer it.

An answer to Wladimir Putin’s fine tuned op-ed in the German weekly Die Zeit by Ralf Fücks, Center for Liberal Modernity.

State­ment by Ralf Fücks und Marieluise Beck: The Russian Pros­e­cu­tor General’s deci­sion to brand­mark the Center for Liberal Moder­nity together with the German-Russian Exchange (DRA) and a Russian exile orga­ni­za­tion as “unde­sir­able...

The recent visit of the US Sec­re­tary of State Antony Blinken to Kyiv has gen­er­ated some inter­est in Ukraine and beyond. This face-to-face meeting was a good oppor­tu­nity for the United...

Climate change and its con­se­quences are viewed dif­fer­ently in Russia than is the case in the West. The issue is under­stood as “part of a polit­i­cal game”. This dif­fer­ence in outlook has ram­i­fi­ca­tions for both polit­i­cal and eco­nomic coop­er­a­tion. The inter­view study “Russian Experts’ Opin­ions on Global Climate Change”, con­ducted by Russia’s Levada-Center and com­mis­sioned by the Center for Liberal Moder­nity, affords in-depth insight into the Russian elites’ per­spec­tive on climate change and its soci­etal and eco­nomic consequences.

The protests in Belarus in 2020 did not lead to a change in gov­ern­ment. But Lukashenko’s chosen way of brutal suppres­sion will not gain him any popular support — and is...