Christoph Hörstel

Versions of names: Кристоф Хёрстель, Christoph R. Hörstel
Germany

Christoph R. Hörstel is a German publicist and political activist. He reported as a journalist from 1985 to 1999. He then worked as a freelance journalist and activist. Among other things, Hörstel represents views that have repeatedly been criticized as conspiracy theories. In 2013 he founded the small German party Deutsche Mitte (German Center). After leaving this party in 2017, Hörstel founded and led the allegedly anti-Semitic Neue Mitte (New Center) party.

Christoph Hörstel was a guest on the German-language program of the Russian state-financed broadcaster RT (Russia Today) several times. In 2017, he traveled to annexed Crimea and was photographed with Putin. In 2020, Hörstel has repeatedly been an interview guest on the Russian broadcaster Ren-TV.

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Referendum Election Ukraine Occupied territories 2022
illegitimate
From 23 to 27 September 2022, the Russian forces organised a sham election process - pseudo-referendum as a pretext for the formal annexation of the regions of occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson by Russia. The annexation of the four regions was announced on 30 September 2022.

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