The ''Moskauer Deutsche Zeitung'', or MDZ for short (), is a

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published in

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

and partially online. It consists of 24 pages, two thirds (16 pages) of which are in

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and one third (8 pages) in

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. The print edition has a circulation of approx. 25,000 copies. It is distributed in hotels, cafés, restaurants, business centres and airports in Moscow.

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are Olga and .

History

In 1870 Theodor Ries founded the ''Moskauer Deutsche Zeitung'', shortly afterwards he left the newspaper to Christian Woldemar. Until the beginning of the

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it served as a source of information for the

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in Moscow. Due to the war it had to cease its publication and could not be revived during the time of the

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. On 12 April 1998 the MDZ was re-established by the . Since 2000 the newspaper publishes a selection of its articles on a website. The website was relaunched in 2012. The MDZ also issues special editions on a regular basis.

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