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Russia has engaged in conflict with Ukraine for nearly two and a half years, resulting in a death toll estimated to be over 300,000 and still climbing.
Culture![Green politician Anton Hofreiter (54) in the Bundestag](https://cdn.aussiedlerbote.de/content/images/2024/05/25/286851/jpeg/4-3/1200/75/500-billion-euros-earmarked-for-europe-s-defensive-measures.webp)
In advance of French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Germany on Sunday, Green Party foreign policy expert Anton Hofreiter is advocating for a 500 billion euro European defense fund. "Given that European security is at risk, it is essential to pursue cooperative European responses,"...
German Federal States![The public defender Dr. Sylvia Schwaben is said to maintain conspicuously intensive contacts with...](https://cdn.aussiedlerbote.de/content/images/2024/05/24/285320/jpeg/4-3/1200/75/is-the-attorney-representing-the-lover-of-the-coup-plotter-a-russian-operative.webp)
Art student Vitalia B., aged 40, attempts to embrace her partner Prince Heinrich XIII Reuß (72) at 9:42 a.m. on Tuesday. However, two court officials quickly separate them, as the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court disallows such behavior between the defendants in Germany's largest terror trial....
Hot-Topics![Russian officials removed buoys from the border river Narva (archive photo)](https://cdn.aussiedlerbote.de/content/images/2024/05/23/284653/jpeg/4-3/1200/75/russia-instigates-tensions-at-estonia-s-frontier.webp)
In the darkness, they struck: As per the Estonian authorities, Russia instigated altercations yet again at the border with the NATO nation on a Thursday night.
Politics![This Georgian is wanted. He is said to be part of a gang stealing Russian books across Europe](https://cdn.aussiedlerbote.de/content/images/2024/05/23/284205/jpeg/4-3/1200/75/is-there-a-book-mafia-enriching-putin-by-looting-europe-s-libraries.webp)
In spring 2022, at the Grishashvili Library-Museum in Tbilisi, Georgia, a man and a pregnant woman are found seated in the reading room, allegedly absorbed in reading. Unbeknownst to the library staff member who brings the pregnant woman a glass of water, this seemingly scholarly couple is in...
Calendar-Sheet![This is how he likes it: AfD top candidate Maximilian Krah with oysters and langoustines. The...](https://cdn.aussiedlerbote.de/content/images/2024/05/23/282940/jpeg/4-3/1200/75/a-german-would-need-to-work-for-94-years-to-receive-the-eu-pension-offered-by-krah.webp)
China intelligence operations, Russia's coal trade, Höcke's fiasco - plus an SS scandal; leading European candidate Maximilian Krah (47) is unfazed. The AfD party's support has declined following Easter (currently at 17%). One individual remains unaffected by this: scandal-plagued Krah himself....
German Federal States![Soldiers of the Gotland Regiment patrol the harbor of Visby on the Swedish island (archive photo)](https://cdn.aussiedlerbote.de/content/images/2024/05/22/282642/jpeg/4-3/1200/75/sweden-bolsters-its-defense-on-gotland-against-russia.webp)
Gotland, a Swedish island, is well-known to TV viewers due to the crime series "Maria Wern, Kripo Gotland" (ARD). This island holds a strategic location in the Baltic Sea, situated 250 kilometers north of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad and acting as a bridge between Sweden and Latvia.
Hot-Topics![A picture from better days: Party leaders Tino Chrupalla (left) and Alice Weidel with the AfD's top...](https://cdn.aussiedlerbote.de/content/images/2024/05/22/282617/jpeg/4-3/1200/75/the-disastrous-collapse-of-the-afd.webp)
After the resignation of their leading EU candidate Maximilian Krah from the AfD federal executive and his prohibition from participating in the election campaign, the party is faced with a crisis.
German Federal States![The "Mémorial de la Shoah" Holocaust memorial in Paris was desecrated last week. Red hands were...](https://cdn.aussiedlerbote.de/content/images/2024/05/22/282421/jpeg/4-3/1200/75/russian-perpetrators-disrespected-a-holocaust-commemorative-site.webp)
In Paris, a Holocaust memorial has been vandalized, and French officials have identified Moscow as the potential source of the desecration.
Technology![Russia's despot Putin also wants to control space](https://cdn.aussiedlerbote.de/content/images/2024/05/22/281073/jpeg/4-3/1200/75/it-is-likely-that-putin-deployed-a-space-bound-weapon.webp)
Reports claim that Russian president Vladimir Putin (71) has launched a satellite capable of annihilating other missiles into orbit, acting as a space weapon.
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