Last Tuesday evening, an audience of around 300 people assembled in the event space of the Leipziger Volkszeitung newspaper in Leipzig, Germany. It was blazing hot under the publishing company’s glass ceiling, where Michael Kretschmer, the governor of the state of Saxony and a member of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), was holding a campaign event. The front page of the regional newspaper’s June 8 edition was projected on one wall. Its cover showed a photograph of Kretschmer speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Spiegel: Relations with Moscow emerge as German election issue
Members of a Russian motorbike gang drive past Brandenburg Gate as they arrive to attend an event to commemorate the 74th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany at the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin's Tiergarten district on May 9, 2019.
