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Nicholas M. Kulish (born July 1975 in Washington, D.C.) is a journalist who reports for The New York Times as Berlin bureau chief as of August of 2007. Previously, he was a member of the editorial board of the Times from September 2005 to the summer of 2007.

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No Parade for Hans

Often, as I have passed through the main train station here in the German capital, I have seen the sad, lone figure of a soldier, heavy pack on his back, waiting for a train like the rest of us, but separated from the crowd by the uniform he wears. No ...

From NICHOLAS KULISH, The New York Times,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Angela Merkel,  NATO

Egypt Welcomes Life Sentence for Killing in German Court

BERLIN One day after a German court ordered life imprisonment for a German man who stabbed a pregnant Egyptian woman to death in a Dresden courtroom, the Egyptian authorities on Thursday welcomed the sentence as a deterrent to “anyone who is incited by ...

From NICHOLAS KULISH, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Alexander Wiens,  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Life for German Who Killed Woman in Court

BERLIN The German man responsible for stabbing a pregnant Egyptian woman to death in a Dresden courtroom was found guilty on Wednesday and given a life sentence. The German, Alexander Wiens, 28, was convicted of killing Ms. Sherbini on July 1 in front ...

From NICHOLAS KULISH, The New York Times,  11 Nov 2009

At Berlin Ceremony, Leaders Past and Present

BERLIN Flanked by leaders from the former Eastern Bloc in communism’s last days, and mobbed by a crowd, Chancellor Angela Merkel launched a day of commemoration Monday of the fall of the Berlin Wall, retracing the steps of the first East German crowds ...

From NICHOLAS KULISH AND ALAN COWELL, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Angela Merkel,  Lech Walesa,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  European Union,  Gordon Brown

With the Berlin Wall Just a Memory, German Divisions Fade

BERLIN “The Quiz of the Germans,” a lighthearted entry amid a crush of serious examinations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, pitted three West German celebrities seated behind the sloping hood of an old Volkswagen Beetle against ...

From NICHOLAS KULISH, The New York Times,  7 Nov 2009

For Merkel in ‘89, a Sauna, a Beer and a Walk Into History

BERLIN A young East German physicist named Angela Merkel was on her way home from her weekly trip to the sauna and a beer with a friend when she was swept up in the ecstatic crowds crossing the border at the Bornholmer Street the night of Nov. 9, 1989, ...

From NICHOLAS KULISH, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Angela Merkel

Merkel Re-elected, but Some Withhold Votes

BERLIN In what should have been a simple formality, Angela Merkel’s official re-election as chancellor of Germany was dampened Wednesday by the fact that at least nine members of her coalition withheld their votes in the secret parliamentary ...

From NICHOLAS KULISH, The New York Times,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Angela Merkel

German Limits on War Facing Afghan Reality

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan Forced to confront the rising insurgency in once peaceful northern Afghanistan, the German Army is engaged in sustained and bloody ground combat for the first time since World War II. Germans in Kunduz Province have had to strike ...

From NICHOLAS KULISH, The New York Times,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Taliban,  NATO,  Stanley A. McChrystal,  Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

New Life for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

BERLIN As recently as last year, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development seemed like a relic of the post-cold war era. One of the nations providing the bank’s financial backing, Australia, asked for its money back, while one of the new ...

From NICHOLAS KULISH, The New York Times,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: European Union,  European Bank for Reconstruction and Development,  Thomas Mirow,  International Monetary Fund

Polish Premier Purges Three Officials in Gaming Scandal

BERLIN Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland cleaned house Wednesday in an effort to move past a political scandal over influence peddling and gambling legislation. Mr. Tusk accepted the resignations of three high-ranking government officials while also ...

From NICHOLAS KULISH, The New York Times,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Donald Tusk,  Lech Kaczynski,  Grzegorz Schetyna

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