Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine und seine Hintergründe - ein DENKRAUM mit Michael Thumann

In the organizer's words:

Around two years after our last discussion, we will be sitting down again with ZEIT journalist and author Michael Thumann to talk about Russia's war against Ukraine and its background. The event is part of our "DENKRAUM" series and, as always, free of charge!

Questions about Russia's war against Ukraine

In 2023, we spoke to Michael Thumann in Braunschweig about the war of aggression against Ukraine and Russia's political interests. The war has now been dragging on for three years, the conflict has been going on for much longer and, looking at the USA, it is clear how fragile international solidarity can be. As ZEIT's foreign affairs correspondent in the Moscow office, Michael Thumann is right in the middle of the action and can answer our questions and yours.

Michael Thumann

Michael Thumann has seen a lot of the world. Since the beginning of 2021, he has headed the Moscow office for the third time as ZEIT's foreign affairs correspondent. He was already here in 2014/15 and from 1996 to 2001 to report on Russia and the states of the former Soviet Union. Between 2014 and 2020, he accompanied the German Foreign Ministers and the Chancellor on their travels from Berlin. Until 2013, he was ZEIT's correspondent for the Middle East, based in Istanbul. From 2002 to 2007, he coordinated ZEIT's foreign policy reporting.

He began his career at ZEIT when he wrote about south-eastern Europe and Yugoslavia, which was disintegrating in the war, from 1992 to 1996. His latest book "Revanche. Wie Putin das bedrohlichste Regime der Welt geschaffen hat" (published by C.H. Beck in 2023)" deals with the causes and global consequences of Russia's war against Ukraine. His latest book "Eisiges Schweigen Flussabwärts, Eine Reise von Moskau nach Berlin" was recently published, in which he explores the renewed division of Europe with his own eyes.