Gwendolyn Sasse, Principal Investigator at SCRIPTS and director of the Center for East European and International Studies, and Alexander Libman, Principal Investigator at SCRIPTS and professor of East European and Russian politics at Freie Universität Berlin, both spoke to Christoph David Piorkowski from the daily newspaper Tagesspiegel. As part of the series "Demokratie im Kreuzfeuer" (Democracy in the crossfire), they talked about the ideological direction in which Putin's regime will go and what this means for the liberal societies in the West. Read the complete article in German here (Paywall)