Sabine Adler is a long-time Eastern Europe expert for the German radio station "Deutschlandfunk". She reported from Moscow for many years, was head of the capital city studio in Berlin and correspondent in the Warsaw studio, focusing on Belarus, the Baltic countries, and Ukraine. During the Euro-Maidan events, she reported from Kyiv and afterwards on the war in Eastern Ukraine. She has received numerous awards for her work, including "Political Journalist of the Year".