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At the time of writing this review, we still await the big Ukrainian counter-offensive.On its success or failure will depend the future course of the war.In February, when the detailed planning for the Big Push was already starting, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told me how nervous he was about it.Such frankness is typical of him.

Poland will become the first country to deliver fighter jets to Ukraine in the next few days, marking a significant upward step in military backing for Kyiv ahead of an expected counter-offensive.The precedent, involving four Soviet-era MiG-29s as a first instalment, could lead to other Nato members providing warplanes, a longstanding Ukrainian request.

The German Football Association (DFB) vice-president Hermann Winkler apologised on Monday for a social media post mocking the visit of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to Berlin.Zelenskiy had talks with the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, on Sunday, with many parts of central Berlin locked down for security reasons during his visit.

CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING - Someone other than Vladimir Putin will likely be running Russia in as little as three years.But the bigger concern, even for Europe, may lay further to the east.That is the analysis of former CIA Director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, speaking on the eve of an expected Ukrainian counter-offensive and during the Ash Carter Exchange on Innovation and National Security in Washington D.C.
"I suspect that Putin is not going to be around in three to five years," Panetta said, noting that he does not believe "Putin or his successor is going to be much of an issue in terms of impacting long-term Europe."

Hans Modrow, who has died aged 95, was the last communist prime minister of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) before free elections took place in March 1990.Taking office at the height of the peaceful revolution in 1989, Modrow immediately set up a grand coalition government of all five parties, giving up his leading role in the Socialist Unity party (SED).

Modrow was made prime minister in November 1989 days after the fall of the Berlin Wall.Hans Modrow, who as the last Communist prime minister of East Germany oversaw democratic reforms that opened the way to German reunification, has died at age 95, Germany's hard-left Die Linke party said.Last night Hans Modrow left us at the age of 95.

Modrow, a leading member of East Germany's Communist party, became prime minister in November 1989.He later served as a lawmaker in reunified Germany's parliament and continued advising the Left Party in his old age.Hans Modrow, the last communist prime minister of former East Germany, has passed away at the age of 95, according to Germany's Left Party.

Leaked photographs have emerged in the German press of the former chancellor Gerhard Schroder, who has refused to denounce his friendship and business ties with Vladimir Putin, as the guest of honour at a reception hosted by the Russian embassy in Berlin.Schroder and his wife, So-yeon Schroder-Kim, reportedly rubbed shoulders at the event on Tuesday with Egon Krenz, 86, the last Communist leader of East Germany (GDR).

1) Fernsehturm alias Telespargel Berlin's TV tower.Photo: DPA Berlin's Fernsehturm (Television tower) dominates the largest square in the middle of Berlin, the Alexanderplatz.Completed in 1969 and standing at 368 metres tall, the Fernsehturm loomed large over the divided city and was built to display Socialist supremacy.

This was the week when thousands of Poles had been hoping to do their Christmas shopping for the first time in the better-stocked shops of East Berlin.But it was not to be.Eleven months after the start of a unique scheme whereby two communist states in eastern Europe  Poland and the German Democratic Republic  dropped their customs barriers for individual tourists, the experiment has been shelved.

It was said that the people of East Germany, or the German Democratic Republic (GDR), loved to read, from classics like Tolstoy's "War and Peace," Boccaccio's "Decameron" and Hugo's "The Wretched," to science fiction and reports about places that could only be visited in the imagination due to travel restrictions.

It was said that the people of East Germany, or the German Democratic Republic (GDR), loved to read, from classics like Tolstoy's "War and Peace," Boccaccio's "Decameron" and Hugo's "The Wretched," to science fiction and reports about places that could only be visited in the imagination due to travel restrictions.

Present-day Germans have a reputation, in Britain at least, for being law-abiding, solid, even stolid citizens who generally toe the line.Like most stereotypes, this caricature is hopelessly inaccurate.Anyone surprised by last week's foiled coup ignores German history and the insurrectionary exploits of one Wolfgang Kapp.

Germany has rebuffed the latest push by Poland's nationalist government for vast reparations over the second world war, saying in response to a diplomatic note that the issue was closed, according to the foreign ministry in Warsaw.Poland estimates its losses in the second world war caused by Germany at 6.2tn zotys (1.2tn) and has demanded reparations, but Berlin has repeatedly said all financial claims related to the war have been settled.

Amadeu António Kiowa, a contract worker from Angola, should have lived to see his child grow up.But his life ended thirty-two years ago today in Brandenburg, where racist extremists killed him.Berlin, November 24th, 2020.Update: November 24th, 2022 (The Berlin Spectator) - On October 7th, 1990, four days after the reunification, Andrzej Frątczak became the first victim of right-wing extremists in the area of former East Germany.

Hoyer's forthcoming book Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-1990 delves into how East Germans were affected by the Mauerfall on November 9th, 1989.Without following any ideological agenda, Hoyer said she wanted to shine a light on people's lives and how they influenced broader German history.(In the GDR) people did develop different lifestyles, a different society, Hoyer told The Local.

On November 9th, 1938, Nazi mobs destroyed businesses owned by Jews and synagogues all over Germany.Fifty-one years later, on November 9th, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell.Obviously, November 9th is an ambivalent date.Berlin, November 9th, 2021 (The Berlin Spectator) - In Nazi Germany, the November Pogroms took place 84 years ago, to the day.

Tournament hosted by West Germany and under heavy security cover following the Munich attack of the 1972 Olympics.Host: West Germany Teams: 16 Format: Group stage, second round, third-place playoff, final Matches: 38 Goals: 97 Winner: West Germany Runners-up: Netherlands Golden boot: Grzegorz Lato (Poland) Background The tournament was hosted by West Germany for the first time, and under heavy security cover following the Munich attack of the 1972 Olympics.

Art exhibitions, films and city tours are casting a new spotlight on LGBTQ life in the now defunct state, capturing the imagination of generations born after the Berlin Wall tumbled on November 9th, 1989.It was a high-wire act, said East German art expert Stephan Koal about the life of Jurgen Wittdorf, a long-closeted gay artist whose daringly homoerotic works decorated even official buildings of the Stalinist regime.

Thirty-three years ago, on November 9th, 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall was the beginning of the end of Germany's division.Traces of those difficult times, when most GDR citizens were caged in their country, can obviously be found in Berlin, but also in Marienborn.Berlin, October 2nd, 2020.Update: November 1st, 2022 (The Berlin Spectator) - Growing up close to the inner German border was weird and dangerous.