Bereits in den vergangenen Jahren wurde es hier immer ruhiger, längst haben sich die Prioritäten geändert. Auch die Kosten überwiegen längst den verbliebenen Nutzen. Deshalb ist nun Schluss: Am 17. Februar 2026 geht der Ostblog offline.
Die hier festgehaltenen Reisen und Erlebnisse über fast zwei Jahrzehnte bleiben für immer in meinen Erinnerungen (und zum Teil auch drüben im Internet Archive). Schön war’s!
Damir is working for a company producing Tatar traditional dresses and tubeteikas (traditional Tatar heads for men) for many years. According to him, Putin and other important politicians have bought their tubeteikas and worn them on public occasions in Tatarstan. While he himself prefers the drab post-Soviet uniform of older…
Erischat works in the Märcani Mosque in the old Tatar quarter of Kazan. He says that his family always kept their faith, also during Soviet times, when it was hard to be openly religious. Indeed, religious practice of Muslims as well as Christians was suppressed by the communist authorities and…
Diana was born in 1944 in the small town of Salonta in nowadays north-western Romania. She studied Industrial Chemistry at the Polytechnic University in Timişoara. At the time when she met her future husband Klaas from Western Germany, she was department head in a rubber company in Pitești.
