Michael Martens
Journalist. Tweets mostly in English or auf Deutsch, Иногда по-русски, понекад на српском.
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No politician in Europe (apart from the special case of Lukashenko in Belarus) supports Putin more vehemently & openly than Milorad Dodik in Bosnia-Herzegovina. This Sunday's elect...
Ernst Jünger ist einer der umstrittensten deutschen Autoren überhaupt - aber auch einer der ganz wenigen deutschsprachigen Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts, die in die Klassiker...
Wenn der Krieg Russlands einen Kollateralnutzen hat, dann wenigstens den, dass wir anders über Themen wie Bundeswehr und Rüstungspolitik diskutieren. Militärische Stärke anzustrebe...
Russia is largely isolated in Europe, also in sports. The news that the national soccer association of Bosnia-Hercegovina plans to play a friendly match against Russia thus came as...
In mid-August 2001, a man called me in the Moscow office of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and asked whether I wanted to interview Mikhail Gorbachev. What a question! Is the pope c...
Whether something is deemed to be political short-sightedness or statesmanlike foresight is often just a question of timing. Croatia´s only Liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, he...
Emmanuel Macron has often said it, and so now does Olaf Scholz: Without a reform of the principle of unanimity in the EU, no new members may join. On the other hand, while leaders...
Über Städte und Klischees. Ein thread ohne Grund und Anlass. (Abgesehen davon, dass ich gerade mal wieder ein schlechtes Buch über eine Stadt gelesen habe und mich frage, warum es...
Fearing Venice, the Republic of Ragusa once ceded part of its territory to the Ottomans. Centuries later, this anti-Venetian buffer zone became the reason for one of the most expen...
The north of Kosovo saw some clashes on Sunday, not for the first time. So is a new war looming in the Balkans, possibly supported by Russia? Although one has to be careful with fo...
Wrote a text on the dangers of making disputes about "the historical truth" (the one and only truth, that is) a criterion for EU membership talks. A thread: https://t.co/t2snUHMykz
First learned of this at the beginning of June, but as it was not yet a done deal at the time I was asked not to mention it publicly. Now it is official: Christian Hellbach, an exc...