Europe | Truth and lies
There are many reports of hostility towards Russians in Germany
But not all are true
|MARZAHN
IN THE EARLY hours of a night in mid-March, a man in a hoodie threw a Molotov cocktail at the International Lomonosov School, a Russian-German establishment in Marzahn, a working-class district in eastern Berlin that is home to around 30,000 Russian-Germans. It was the second arson attack on the school that month.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Truth and lies”
Europe April 16th 2022
From the April 16th 2022 edition
Discover stories from this section and more in the list of contents
Explore the editionMore from Europe
Germans are growing cold on the debt brake
Expect changes after the election
The Pope and Italy’s prime minister tussle over Donald Trump
Giorgia Meloni was the only European leader at the inauguration
Europe faces a new age of gunboat digital diplomacy
Can the EU regulate Donald Trump’s big tech bros?
Ukrainian scientists are studying downed Russian missiles
And learning a lot about sanctions-busting
How Poland emerged as a leading defence power
Will others follow?
Russian pilots appear to be hunting Ukrainian civilians
Residents of Kherson are dodging murderous drones