Overview

• BSW’s parliamentary group in the Brandenburg Landtag said Ambassador Sergej Netschajew accepted its invitation to Tuesday’s exhibition opening.
• The show, themed “War and Peace,” features works by Hans and Lea Grundig, artists persecuted by the Nazis before and during the Third Reich.
• BSW said it invited peace initiatives and diplomats from several countries, with representatives from Belarus and Hungary also confirming attendance.
• CDU parliamentary leader Jan Redmann condemned the invitation, accusing BSW of giving “Russian warmongers a stage” and implying its idea of peace means a Russian victory.
• BSW leader Niels-Olaf Lüders defended the decision, arguing that maintaining contact with parties to a war is necessary to work for peace.