Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz receives French President Emmanuel Macron in the Chancellery in Berlin on January 22, 2024.
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Russian ruler Vladimir Putin wants to be elected president again in a sham election. Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron meet in Berlin for a discussion. And the “Last Generation” wants to demonstrate again – without glue. The FAZ newsletter.
DThe most important thing for you on Friday:
1. Russia’s choice without alternatives
2. Can Scholz and Macron smooth things over?
3. Chancellor Scholz expected in Israel
4. The “Spring of Resistance” of the “Last Generation”
5. How sustainable are Germany’s public finances?
6. The Peter Feldmann case concerns Karlsruhe
7. Hyper, hyper – on and on
Election without serious opponents: A poster of Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg
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Image: EPA
1. Russia’s choice without alternatives
Vladimir Putin wants to be “elected” as Russian president for the fifth time. There are no serious opposing candidates.
Mock election: From today until Sunday, 112 million Russians are called to vote in the presidential election in the world’s largest country. There can be no question of an election in the actual sense. There are no real opposing candidates; almost all of Putin’s opponents are now in exile. Putin’s most important and prominent opponent, Alexei Navalnyj, died a month before the “election” in the “Polar Wolf” prison camp in Siberia. Unlike in 2018, there will be no control by independent international election observers.
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