We kick off our series of interviews ahead of the 26 May elections with Martin Grund (SPD). The Plagwitz resident was the first Leipzig City Council candidate who reached out to us. Die Interviews werden in deutscher und englischer Sprache gemeinsam veröffentlicht.
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Get out the vote in Leipzig! We're in the process of interviewing candidates, to publish answers in both German and English. German as well as EU citizens are eligible to vote in both elections, but must act quickly to register.
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"Walking into Spinnerei Leipzig's Halle 12, I expected to see Bolsonaro's effigy in all manners of artistic defacing. Instead, I only caught Bolsonaro's silhouette, so to speak, lurking around the political art. Present, but not obvious, kind of like how artists protested during the Brazilian dictatorship in 1964-85."
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Initial questions will include how many employees the Leipzig Foreigners' Authority has and processing times for applications compared to other German cities. Further research would aim to assess the public officials' level of intercultural and foreign language training.
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The walls are closing in on Maduro from almost all sides. Perspective from a Leipzig-based Venezuelan political scientist.
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Focusing on the time from Yeltsin's resignation to shortly after the 2000 presidential election, director Vitaly Mansky takes us behind the scenes of Putin's rise to power - as he himself was behind the scenes as Putin's then-PR guy.
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