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The head of pro-Chemnitz, an organisation that played a key role in fuelling anti-migrant tension in Chemnitz, is a local lawyer that also founded a cultural club for Russians and Russian-Germans called Kulturverein Tolstoi in 2014. Interesting timing
swr.de/report/der-flu…
Here the link to Kulturverein Tolstoi e.V.
kulturverein-tolstoi.de/?Presse
The fascinating thing is that the German journalists struggle with a worldview they think is laced with contradictions. But in the context of East European Far Right ideologies or Duginist Eurasianism the positions Martin Kohlmann takes fit right in.
swr.de/report/der-flu…
Keep in mind in many cases networks activated by authoritarian governments often initially only had indirect institutional contact through ideological movements that states find useful but keep at arms length. A pattern found with Osmanen biker gangs and E. European Eurasianists
There are many great initiatives encouraging integration of Russian-speakers and cultural exchange between them and Germans. Many actively help recent refugees and migrants.

99.999% of them were not founded by a Far Right lawyer who wants to bring down the political system
Cc @Mortis_Banned @RikeFranke @DimitarBechev @A_SHEKH0VTS0V @AlexKokcharov @MarkGaleotti @BSchmeitzner @lokshin @yuvalweber @DevinAckles
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A contention I find odd about Relotius is this idea that his lies were brilliantly concealed. His pieces fed conventional stereotypes about other societies among Spiegel's readership in a flippantly emotive style that can at best be accessible and at worst condescending
Relotius didn't get away with it because he was some kind of literary genius. He got away with it because his pieces so seamlessly copied the conventional tropes of post-1990 German journalism that no one could tell the difference between his work and genuinely researched stories
I've been reading Spiegel since I was a kid. Every tmonths there is a story about "those crazy small time Americans", "the rebellious French", "inscrutable Turks", "chaotic Italians", "eccentric Brits", "moody Russians", "wild Arabs", "ungovernable Ukrainians" and so on
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Extraordinary how hard the UK government is fighting to lose whatever leverage it has left over the EU. A deal to protect Northern Ireland from English politics is essential even with a second referendum. But lack of realism over the UK's position after March 2019 is remarkable
Many have the psychology of the UK government during Brexit transition wrong. Tories in particular have strong incentives to pretend that achieving Brexit in itself has been a huge success. May and Gove will avoid any great rows over EU decisions that only underline UK weakness
Any complaints among UK MPs or voters about EU regulatory action that shape UK economic and political life in Brexit transition will be deflected by government claims of all the fantastic goodies waiting for the UK just over the rainbow of a final trade deal with the EU
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Do those who want a referendum before March 2019 rather than during the transition believe security threats without a backstop are manageable and risks from political escalation are controllable? Do they think they can hold the UK union together when all else falls apart?
Because once a state slides into existential crisis even the best intentioned leaders often end up facing disastrous choices
Many on both sides of the UK Brexit debate need to take a harder look at what happens to states in moments of existential crisis.

If you propose a course of action with very high levels of risk at least acknowledge the existence of those risks and factor them into your strategy
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#Spygate: The True Story of Collusion How the United States of America's most powerful agencies were weaponized Against President @realDonaldTrump during 2016 Election & Today

Worst Scandal of Government Corruption since Watergate

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Bueno, os dije ayer que hoy os contaría qué está pasando en Alemania estos días y por qué la coalición de Gobierno liderada Merkel podría saltar por los aires en unos días o quizás horas. Hay fútbol así que no espero que me hagáis mucho caso pero hilo va. (1/4545)
El principio igual lo conocéis. En pasado 26 de agosto el alemán de origen cubano Daniel H. es asesinado en la ciudad de #Chemnitz (Sajonia) presuntamente por dos solicitantes de asilo, un sirio de 23 años y un iraquí de 22.
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Im folgenden ein Thread über die Geschehnisse rund um #Chemnitz, von #c2708, über #Maaßen bis #c0709. Vielleicht hilft er ja Journalisten und Politikern ihre Worte zu überdenken.

Aufgrund der aufgeheizten Stimmung in Deutschland ist TEILEN ausdrücklich erwünscht!
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