After the victory of the far right in the parliamentary elections in Saxony-Anhalt, special representative of the President of the Russian Federation Kirill Dmitriev wrote on his X: «I look forward to jointly building a great future together with ‘AfD’ — Germany’s most popular party». Russian authorities have indeed long supported this party, and elections in eastern Germany may affect the result of the federal elections to the Bundestag. However, not necessarily in favor of AfD. 

#AlternativeforGermany #VladimirPutin #EastandWest #elections #GDR #Germany #DonaldTrump #migrants #society #rightandleft #Russianinfluence #SaxonyAnhalt #ultraright #fascism #Economy

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The special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for investment and economic cooperation with foreign countries and head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Kirill Dmitriev, proposed holding a Russian-German-American business forum in 2027. According to him, the German party Alternative for Germany (AfD) should join it to revive business dialogue.

#AlternativeforGermany #Germany #KirillDmitriev #RussianDirectInvestmentFund #Russia #USA

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German police detained 48-year-old Daniel F., who is suspected of involvement in sabotage at energy facilities, sources at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported. The detention took place during a traffic check in the Weisweiler area in the west of the country.

#Brandenburg #Germany #sabotage #NorthRhineWestphalia #energyfacilities

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The Volkswagen plant in Osnabrück, a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, will be repurposed for defense production. Israeli investment company Aurelius will invest in the project, and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems will become the key partner.

#volkswagen #Germany #Israel #LowerSaxony #weapon #Osnabrück

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The Russian Foreign Ministry revoked consent for the operation of Germany’s consulate general in St. Petersburg. The institution must cease activities no later than September 18, and all its employees must leave the country by the same date.

#Germany #GoetheInstitut #RussianMinistryofForeignAffairs #Russia #StPetersburg #SergeyLavrov

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How did it happen that in a country where anti-fascist rhetoric permeates everything, a semi-fascist party wins the 2026 elections? Why does this rhetoric no longer work?

#AlternativeforGermany #AfD #warinGaza #elections #Germany #Israel #historicalmemory #rightandleft #ultraright

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AfD received 43.8% of the vote in the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament election and won 39 of 83 seats. That is not enough for an outright majority, but the party still has a chance to lead the region.

#AfD #BjörnHöcke #Germany #europe #policy #SaxonyAnhalt #SPD #CDU

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Elon Musk once again defended the «Alternative for Germany» and said that calling it «far-right» is wrong. After exit polls in the election for the state parliament of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, he called the party the «extreme center»; according to the polls, the AfD had 44.5% of the vote.

#AfD #AliceWeidel #Germany #europe #elonmask #policy #rights #SaxonyAnhalt #CDU

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In Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock, Germany, a memorial ceremony was held for about 65,000 Soviet prisoners of war who died in the «Stalag 326 (VI K) Senne» camp. Participants laid wreaths and flowers at the central obelisk and honored the dead with a minute of silence.

#WorldWarII #Germany #europe #NorthRhineWestphalia #Sovietprisonersofwar

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At two electrical substations in eastern Saxony, 12 homemade explosive devices were found. They were defused, and damage and power outages were avoided.

#Germany #Dresden #Incidents #Saxony #powerengineering

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At the Munich Security Conference forum, planners working with NATO said that Europe is not yet ready for a prolonged war of attrition with Russia. According to them, because public readiness is weak, NATO will have to base its planning on a shorter conflict scenario, while concerns about hybrid war with Moscow are intensifying debates over new defense coordination in Europe.

#Germany #europe #Italy #MunichSecurityConference #NATO #Russia

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The European Union will hold a series of meetings in the coming weeks to discuss new restrictive measures against Russia, Bloomberg writes. Options include limiting tourist visas, tightening rules for Russian diplomats, and sanctions against «shadow fleet» vessels.

#Germany #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #KajaKallas #Russia #shadowfleet

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Russian intelligence services are recruiting Danish citizens to help prepare sabotage against defense companies linked to military aid for Ukraine, said the head of the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET), Emil Gresholm. According to him, Danish intelligence regularly records such attempts.

#Germany #warcheck #Denmark #sabotage #EuropeanUnion #NATO #Russia #spies

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In Munich on Thursday night, containers with an incendiary mixture were thrown at a construction site next to the defense companies Rohde & Schwarz. Two suspects were detained — a 28-year-old woman and a 38-year-old man, both citizens of Bulgaria; the fire was quickly extinguished, and no one was injured.

#RohdeSchwarz #Bulgaria #WarinUkraine #militaryindustrialcomplex #Germany #sabotage #Munich #Electronicwarfare

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German investigators have identified two alleged participants in the drone attack on Leipzig Airport, but their names have not been disclosed. They are a native of Russia with a Latvian passport and a citizen of Belarus who also has a Russian passport.

#LeipzigAirport #Belarus #Bonn #Germany #Leipzig #Russia

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Upsala-Circus is a social circus project for children and teenagers in difficult life circumstances. It was founded in 2000 in St. Petersburg by director Larisa Afanasyeva together with her German colleague Astrid Schorn. After the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, Larisa, together with part of the team, left Russia and moved to Germany. For four years now, Upsala-Circus has been working in Zeitz, a small town in Saxony-Anhalt. It is here that the far-right party «Alternative for Germany» (AfD), which is gaining popularity thanks to anti-migrant slogans, is currently leading in the regional elections.

#AlternativeforGermany #AfD #Bauhaus #WarinUkraine #Germany #childrenandteenagers #interview #migrants #socialproject #ultraright #circus #emigration

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Germany intends to push for a further reduction in the number of tourist Schengen visas issued to Russians. This was stated by a representative of the German Foreign Ministry, Martin Giese, after a meeting of the EU foreign ministers, at which, according to the EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas, tightening the rules for Russian tourists received broad support.

#Germany #EU #ESKaiKallas #MFA #GermanForeignMinistryMartinGiese #About

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German authorities said Russia was involved in last month’s drone attack on Leipzig/Halle airport in the eastern part of the country. According to them, the incident occurred on 4 August near Ukrainian cargo planes, and the explosive device did not go off.

#droneattack #WarinUkraine #Germany #EuropeanUnion #RussiansabotageinEurope #Russia #RussianHouse #sanctions

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Der deutsche Verteidigungsunternehmer Stefan Thumann erklärte in einem Exklusivinterview, dass die Sabotageoperationen, die er Moskau zuschreibt, ein «Kriegsakt» seien und dass sich Deutschland und Russland im Kriegszustand befänden. Seine Worte fielen vor dem Hintergrund der Vorbereitung Berlins auf Vorwürfe gegen Moskau im Fall eines versuchten Drohnenangriffs in Leipzig und auf neue Sanktionen.

#business #militaryindustrialcomplex #WarinUkraine #Germany #interview #Russia

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The Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI) in Germany confirmed infections with the new-to-Europe variant of the Shamonda virus in cows in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse. According to initial sequence comparisons, the cases in Switzerland and France were likely caused by the same virus.

#FLI #Germany #GermanysFriedrichLoefflerInstitute #Europe #RhinelandPalatinate #Shamonda

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