Maxim Yusin

Oct 18, 2024 | eurotopics.net | Jens Münchrath |Maxim Yusin

Radio Kommersant FM interprets the short visit as a sign of Washington's waning support for Kyiv: “US President Joe Biden has changed tack and is now flying to Germany to fill the diplomatic vacuum that arose last week. He created this vacuum himself when he cancelled his Germany visit, which was supposed to be the highlight of a series of summits on Western aid to Ukraine, literally at the last minute. ...

Aug 28, 2024 | eurotopics.net | John Kampfner |Petr Fischer |Maxim Yusin

CDU and SPD may come to depend on the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), the Guardian predicts: “After the regional elections on 1 September, talks will take place designed to cobble together coalitions to govern in Thuringia and Saxony – and to keep out the AfD. The firewall still exists for that party. The irony - and the hypocrisy - is that the remaining parties will be forced to do a deal with Wagenknecht, an equally dangerous but smarter representative of the new far right.

Aug 28, 2024 | eurotopics.net | John Kampfner |Petr Fischer |Maxim Yusin

28 August 2024The forthcoming state elections in the East German states of Saxony and Thuringia preoccupy the press across Europe. In particular, commentators focus on the fact that the AfD, which is classified as a suspected right-wing extremist party by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, is ahead in the polls in both states; it stands to win around 30 per cent. The high level of support for the new Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) is also noted.

Aug 8, 2024 | eurotopics.net | Wacław Radziwinowicz |Julia Latynina |Maxim Yusin |Paul Lendvai

Political scientist Abbas Galliamov is amused that Putin is calling this a provocation, and comments on Facebook: “Why a 'provocation'? There is a war going on, in the course of which a military operation has been carried out. That's a standard narrative, isn't it? It's bad that people are dying, but why call it a 'provocation'? Because you didn't expect it? You didn't expect the enemy to show initiative? ... Didn't they teach you that in your academies?

Apr 26, 2024 | rt.com | Maxim Yusin

Antony Blinken traveled to China this week to warn Beijing about sanctions for supplying military technology to Russia, according to the Financial Times and Bloomberg in their previews of the US secretary of state’s visit. They didn’t specify which sanctions might follow. However, FT sources suggested that financial and other institutions in China could face restrictions.