The singer, publicist and translator Ekkehard Maass welcomes us in the premises where he normally holds his literary salon and where he also lives. You can hardly see an inch of wall, everything is full of works of art, shelves reach to the ceiling, there is a large table, pews and a samovar. How much world fits into one room! Even in GDR times, Maass did not always travel legally to the Soviet Union, and after reunification, under the impression of the Chechen wars, he founded the German-Caucasian Society. He knows the patterns and consequences of Putin’s foreign policy from his own experience. We asked him for his assessment.
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