Armin Laschet: A Merkelian Putinversteher?
Dmitri Stratievski charts the rise of a new leader of Germany’s CDU. What will be his stance on German-Russia relations?
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The Flaws of the Putinversteher’s Russian Hermeneutics
How the escapist axioms of Western apologies of Kremlin policies distort our understanding of the origins and motives of Russia’s current domestic and foreign behavior