In echo of Soviet era, Russians are informing on each other over Ukraine
Buyanova was born in Ukraine but is a citizen of Russia, where she has lived and worked for three decades. Her lawyer Oscar ...
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Where Are They Now? 15 Countries That Were Once Part of the Soviet Union
It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 into 15 separate countries. And what a ride it’s been. The ...
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The Berlin Wall came down 35 years ago today. Fragments of the famous border still remain today.
It marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Communist dictatorship in East Germany, paving the way for German reunification in 1990 and the collapse of the Soviet Union ...
Commentary: The fall of the Berlin Wall showed us how quickly transformative change can happen
In 1987, celebrating the 750th anniversary of its founding, the two sides of Berlin — the capitalist West and the socialist ...
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PETER YOUNG: Fall of a wall that changed history
The city was divided after the Second World War in to four zones controlled respectively by the victors of the war - Britain, the US, the Soviet Union (USSR) and France - that ended in Europe on May 8 ...
35th anniversary: The fall of the Berlin Wall in photographs
What began as confusion soon turned to celebration as Berliners from both east and west flooded the streets, chipping away at ...
The first car made during Soviet-era in Poland goes on display 73 years later
The very first car produced in Soviet-era Poland after World War II went on display Friday near Warsaw after it was ...
New theatre production ‘Collective Phenomena’ reveals story of defiant Soviet-Jewish scientists
The director of Collective Phenomena, Semion Aleksandrovskiy, shared a little of this complex history via his own family ...
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35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall...Tens of thousands of people gathered for the celebration.
Built by the former Soviet Union in 1961, the Berlin Wall stood as a symbol of the U.S.-Soviet Cold War for 28 years before it was toppled by Berliners on November 9, 1989. The fall of the Berlin Wall ...
Germany commemorates 35 years since fall of Berlin Wall
People laid flowers at the site of the memorial to the Berlin Wall, and an art installation of posters and placards marked ...
Jim Thompson is the perfect novelist for our crazed times
“The Killer Inside Me,” published in 1952, is his best-known novel. Its narrator is Lou Ford, a 29-year-old Texas sheriff who pretends to be a bland and boring rube but ends up committing every murder ...
Commentary: Stefanik is the right choice to represent the U.S. at the UN
She will aggressively defend America and its allies against those who would use the United Nations as a platform to slander ...