Armin Huttenlocher

The EU-Commis­sion has given in to pressure from Hungary and has removed the Russian Patriarch Kirill from the list of persons to be sanc­tioned in the draft Sixth package of restric­tive measures against Russia in response to the war in Ukraine. While this exem­pli­fies a disas­trous weakness towards Victor Orbán’s regime, it also under­scores a fatal under­es­ti­ma­tion of the role of the Russian-Orthodox Church within the power structure of Russia and in the campaign of destruc­tion against Ukraine. 

On this date 74 years ago, the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau exter­mi­na­tion camp. The 27th of January became the Day of Remem­brance for the Victims of National Socialism. Much has...