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Articles by Volker Weichsel
People power? Original
I thank James Miller for his commentary on my essay on the multiple pathways and tempos of democide. It is free-wheeling, opinionated, forceful and wild – in more ways than one, rather like the 6 January assault on the United States Congress that plenty of ‘fellow Americans’ (he daringly reports) saw as a legitimate revolt of ‘ordinary people’ and their ‘democratic idealism’ against a ‘distant fortress’ of government ruled by a corrupt elite of wealthy politicians.
Georgian nightmare Original
Volker Weichsel: In the weeks following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, Georgia was thought to be the next possible victim of Russian aggression. Since then, the country has dropped out of sight. What is the domestic political situation in Georgia, particularly the relationship between government and opposition and the position of civil society? Zaal Andronikashvili: Georgia is deeply divided, and not just along a single rift.
Ukrainian culture in times of war
Osteuropa is unique in the German language cultural journals landscape (and beyond) in providing in-depth information and analysis about eastern Europe for a generalist readership. Edited by Manfred Sapper and Volker Weichsel, the journal has consistently provided criticism of developments in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, long before 24 February and to a considerable extent against the grain of opinion in Germany.
Source of resistance
This is the translation of the editorial of Osteuropa 6–8/2022 (original here). It features in a Eurozine editorial. Can we discuss Ukrainian literature when the country is at war, when men and women are risking their lives to defend their freedom? Is it not tasteless to concern ourselves with Ukrainian film when forensic scientists are discovering mass graves in the regions formerly occupied by Putin’s marauders?
Revenge as policy
After the short-lived international uproar surrounding last year’s elections, Belarus had fallen out of the headlines. Coronavirus, climate crisis, coronavirus, Middle East crisis, coronavirus… Suddenly, the steady flow of crisis news was interrupted by a fighter jet that scrambled and forced a passenger plane to land at Minsk airport. Two passengers were arrested: a 25-year-old man and 23-year-old woman.
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