Thomas Peter

@Wahlleitung_de Pünktlich zwei Tage nach der #Bundestagswahl in Kyiv eingetroffen: meine Briefwahlunterlagen angefordert im Dezember. Grossartig, wie sie Deutschen im Ausland die Teilhabe am demokratischen Prozess ermöglichen, gerade jetzt wo es auf jede Stimme ankommt.

Love is in the air. Ukrainian serviceman meets his beloved at the Kramatorsk railway station, Donetsk region. 📸: Thomas Peter / @Reuters

This is Babi Yar, where the Nazis massacred 200,000 Ukrainian Jews, POWs, and others who stood against evil I prayed here today that the tragedy of the Ukrainian people & this terrible war will end soon 🇺🇦 deserves peace & justice. We have waited long enough

This rather unScholz-like speech was given last night in Brandenburg. The video omits perhaps the spiciest line: "Dear screamers, Putin is the warmonger you'd be shouting at here if you had any sense in your brains".

RT @mhar4: "That guy, you see that guy?" "No." "There's a guy who's running in front of the tank. He's standing right in front of it."…

RT @berlin_bridge: Interviewer: “Is it a myth that the West deceived you with regard to the NATO eastward expansion?” Gorbachev: “Yes, that…

Here is the link to Evan Gershkovich's excellent article "Russia's economy is starting to come undone". Presumably this insightful article is the reason why he was arrested. The current Russian authorities are so predictable, just like the USSR. wsj.com/articles/russi…

For years, Evan did everything he could to tell the story of modern Russia. It is now our turn to keep the light shining on him theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

RT @claudi: In Deutschland werden an diesem Samstag Menschen auf die Straße gehen, um Verhandlungen mit Russland zu fordern. Vor einiger Ze…

RT @jmzbeijing: Yes....press freedom is a wonderful thing. It's good that Mr. Liu has much access on the scene in Ohio. Meanwhile, foreign…

@DavidStanway I’ve had some of my best reporting trips in China with you, David. Chinese Opera in the backyard of a steelmille, 1000km through the dust roads of Gansu. It’s always been an adventure. But I get it, it’s time to go. All the best, David!

Penultimate night in China. Guinness it is then.

@james_brabazon His name is Yozhi and he can be a real jester when he’s not wearing his serious pants. He’s a rescue so we don’t know what breeds went into him

@james_brabazon Hey James, your furry has a doppelgänger hailing from Hebei, China. Here in his winter coat

RT @DavidStanway: After nearly three years being told that trying to coexist with COVID-19 would be catastrophic, many people in China thin…

@lim_megumi I don’t do dates. I was with my wife. I just follow her.

I can immediately recite the dates I’ve flown back into China for every year since the pandemic for this reason. March 12, 2020; Sep 8, 2021; and May 28, 2022.

This is what a blank sheet of paper looks like in official #China - don’t acknowledge reality and say nothing. theguardian.com/world/video/20…

RT @CindyXiaodanYu: This was such a brilliant video I subtitled it so more people can watch it. Beijing students' response last night to ac…

A thread here for those who don't understand why the China protests over the weekend protests are so shockingly rare. Surveillance. In. China. Is. Extreme. Think you could evade Chinese police? Let's walk through it:

"There's tons of people protesting, they'll never catch me," nope - Chinese police stations use huge networks of facial recognition cameras that can retroactively trace people for days or even months.

RT @DreyerChina: This is amazing. Due to the backlash from Chinese fans seeing unmasked crowds in Qatar, Chinese TV is now replacing live c…