Andrey Gurkov

In the organizer's words:

Why Russia broke with the West

Lecture

How is it that Vladimir Putin's imperial complexes and aggressive pipe dreams are proving to have majority appeal in Russian society? Why is there so much enthusiasm for war among Russians, including Russians abroad, and why is the officially propagated hatred of Ukraine, the USA and Europe falling on such fertile ground?

Andrey Gurkov, a journalist who was born in Moscow and lives in Cologne, gets to the bottom of the historical, cultural, political and mass psychological reasons for this phenomenon. At the same time, he urgently warns against the illusory expectation that there could be a restoration of Germany's or Europe's former relations with Russia after the end of the war in Ukraine.

Andrey Gurkov was born in Moscow in 1959 and grew up in East Berlin and later in Bonn. He studied journalism in Moscow and Leipzig. In 1987, he joined the weekly newspaper Moskovskiye Novosti, which was a pioneer of the glasnost policy at the time, and became editor-in-chief of its German edition, Moscow News. Since 1993, he has worked in the Russian editorial department of Deutsche Welle in Bonn. As an expert on Russia, he is a welcome guest on various German TV and radio stations.

Language: German