The German government wants to create a hub for independent journalists from regions in crisis in Berlin, the country’s commission for culture and the media announced on Tuesday. Journalists from countries affected by war such as Ukraine, Russia and Belarus will be given the resources to conduct independent journalism from the German capital, thereby countering Russia’s disinformation campaign, said Claudia Roth, the federal commissioner for culture. “The war is directed against culture and against democracy,” said Roth, a member of the environmentalist Greens, currently a junior partner in th…