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Die Bundesregierung hat Moskau für einen versuchten Drohnenanschlag in Leipzig verantwortlich gemacht und Sanktionen angekündigt. Zuvor hatte Deutschland das Russische Haus in Berlin geschlossen und die Mitarbeiter zur Ausreise aufgefordert.
Seit die Bundesregierung Anfang der Woche Moskau für den versuchten Drohnenanschlag von Leipzig verantwortlich gemacht und Sanktionen angekündigt hat, läuft in Russland eine eigene „Operation Antwort“. Die Goethe-Institute in Moskau, Sankt Petersburg und Nowosibirsk würden geschlossen, „nachdem man unser Kulturzentrum verjagt hat“, erklärte Außenminister Sergej Lawrow auf einem Wirtschaftsforum in Wladiwostok. Das sei eine Frage der Selbstachtung. Die deutsche Regierung sei bewusst einen Schritt gegangen, der „das Ende ihrer kulturellen Präsenz in der Russischen Föderation bedeutet“. Deutschland hatte zuvor angekündigt, das Russische Haus in Berlin zu schließen, und die Mitarbeiter zur Ausreise aufgefordert.
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Weitere kulturelle Einrichtungen könnten im Zuge des Konflikts geschlossen werden.
Possible · Within months
The nephew of a 95-year-old resident with dementia at the “Marthahaus” retirement home in Dessau accuses the facility of voting by postal vote on behalf of his aunt without his knowledge as an authorized representative. He has filed a criminal complaint against unknown persons. The home remains silent on the matter, while the AfD uses the case to criticize postal voting.

Russia is closing the three remaining locations of the Goethe-Institut in response to the closure of the Russian House in Berlin. The management sees this as the end of an era in German-Russian cultural relations. At the same time, Ronald Rauhe becomes the new Minister of State for Sports, Jens Spahn moves to the Budget Committee and there are new developments regarding attacks, defense and tax reform.

Giorgia Meloni will become Italy's longest-serving prime minister since the end of World War II on Friday. In a country with frequent changes of government, it has ensured stability in four years. She is also the first woman to hold this office and comes from a party with post-fascist roots.

The closure of the Goethe Institutes in Russia is seen as bad news for cultural freedom, but justified as a necessary reaction to the continued propaganda of the Russian House in Berlin and the Putin regime's arbitrariness towards cultural institutions.
The resigned Union parliamentary group leader Jens Spahn (CDU) remains in the Bundestag and is to become a member of the budget committee. The opposition criticizes his previous role in controversial mask purchases during the corona pandemic and sees a conflict of interest.
The Wardenburg Protestant parish has asked a volunteer to resign from her position because she supports her partner's election campaign for the AfD. At the same time, the media is reporting on fake election polls, attacks on journalists at AfD events and statements by politicians and church representatives on the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt.