Russia Is Shutting Down the Goethe-Institut. For Many Russians, It Was Their Gateway to Germany.
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Russia closes the Goethe Institutes – as a symbol of the mutual loss of trust. But is that really so bad? One could think of foreign cultural policy in a completely different way.
Moscow reacts promptly to the recent measures taken by the Federal Government: the Goethe Institutes will be closed, it said. Putin has been against them for years. He has a special reason for this.
Russia is shutting down the Goethe-Institut. For many Russians, it was their gateway to Germany.
The Goethe-Institut was founded in West Germany in 1951 to train foreign teachers of German. The institute later expanded into a broader language and cultural exchange, teaching German to other students and immersing them in the country’s culture. Goethe-Institut centers now operate in 100 countries.
The severed language examination, the plans to study and move to Germany, the loss of the German-language library and the destruction of the cultural bridge, and the readers of the DW explained how they could be affected by the closure of the Goethe Institute in Russia.
The end of the Goethe-Instituts in Russia is bad news. But although this reaction of the Kremlin could be expected, the closure of the Russian House in Berlin is right.
Closure of Goethe Institutes in Russia: It's Not Going to Help Our Two Peoples Understand Each Other
Aimed at by German sanctions, Moscow responded by announcing the closure of the Goethe institutes in Russia. For the Berlin newspaper "Die Tageszeitung" the closure of these cultural and linguistic centres is another nail in the coffin of German-Russian friendship.
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