Branko Milanovic
It is quite interesting. The Russia House in Berlin which is in Friedrischstrasse (i.e. center of Berlin) has a very good bookstore full of Russian language books that are very critical of Russia and (to put things simply) anti-Putin. So Germany now wants to close it?
Brian McDonald
Sergey Lavrov has announced that Russia will close Goethe-Institut branches in response to Germany’s decision to shut the Russian House cultural centre in Berlin. “The Germans have Goethe-Institut branches here, in Moscow, St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg. Of course, they will be
