Tuesday, 5/13/2025
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How is it that Vladimir Putin's imperial complexes and aggressive wishful thinking prove to be majoritarian in Russian society, why was there so much enthusiasm for war among Russians, including expatriate Russians, and why does the officially propagated hatred against Ukraine, the USA, and Europe find such fertile ground?

Moscow-born journalist Andrey Gurkov, who lives in Cologne, delves into the historical, cultural, political, and mass psychological reasons for this phenomenon. At the same time, he strongly warns against the illusory expectation that there could be a restoration of earlier relations between Germany or Europe and Russia after the end of the Ukraine war.

Andrey Gurkov was born in 1959 in Moscow and grew up in East Berlin and later in Bonn. He studied journalism in Moscow and Leipzig. In 1987, he joined the weekly newspaper Moskowskije Nowosti, which was then a pioneer of the glasnost policy, and became editor-in-chief of its German edition, Moskau News. Since 1993, he has been working in the Russian editorial team of Deutsche Welle in Bonn. As a Russia expert, he is a welcome guest on various German TV and radio stations.

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