Michael Martens
Journalist. Tweets mostly in English or auf Deutsch, Иногда по-русски, понекад на српском.
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Must read for the Balkan bubble: The latest newsletter of @ESI_eu on Kosovo and the Council of Europe. Main question: Do certain 🇩🇪 diplomats undermine Berlins official policy towa...
“True greatness lies not in … military parades, nor in promises to unleash a nuclear Armageddon. True greatness lies in acceptance of the past, and a willingness to make amends … i...
Kosovo and Denmark have signed an agreement according to which foreigners from non-EU countries who are sentenced to imprisonment in Denmark with subsequent deportation to their co...
Es gibt wohl niemanden, der oder die sich nicht schon oft gefragt hätte: „Wie geht es wohl hinter den Kulissen des transnistrischen staatlichen Kunstinstituts ´Anton Grigorjewitsch...
As early as next year, the Council of Europe, the oldest association of European democracies, could have a new member: Kosovo. Since Russia was excluded, Serbia has lost its main a...
On 🇬🇷 and 🇷🇺: While there were the usual ups and downs, both countries had fairly good relations for a long time. Orthodoxy contributed to a sense of religious & cultural closeness...
Alexandroupoli, dubbed the "Nato port" in 🇬🇷, has become one of the most interesting places in Southeast Europe, both militarily & economically. Military, as arms shipments go from...
In her first interview to an international media outlet since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Moldova's President Maia Sandu answered questions about ever higher gas prices, i...
Petro Rychlo from Chernivtsi, this legendary, multilingual city (not only, but also) of literature, is one of the leading literary scholars in 🇺🇦. Spoke with him about his city, hi...
In the late 80s early 90s, before he completely sold out to Putin and Russian nationalism, Aleksandar Rosenbaum, son of a Jewish family of doctors from Leningrad/Petersburg who had...
Eine kleine Geschichte aus der Ukraine. Über Czernowitz, Paul Celan, die russische Sprache und die deutsche, über dies und das. Wer es eilig hat, bitte weitersrcollen, das hier dau...
For the longest period of the 1990s, Serbia, a tiny landlocked country without oil or gas resources, was under international sanctions. Still its leader Slobodan Milošević managed...