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GERMANS SEE ALMOST NO PROGRESS ON EAST-WEST UNITY IN THE PAST 7 YEARS STUDY SAYS
Eastern Germany still lags behind the western parts of the country in terms of its economic performance and unemployment rates, despite continuous financial assistance since reunification... READ MORE›
'NOT ACCEPTABLE': HEAD OF BERLIN THEATRE HITS OUT AT VOLKSBUHNE OCCUPATION
Activists fear Chris Dercon, formerly Tate Modern director, will make avant garde and radical theatre more commercial... READ MORE›
GERMANY'S OTHER VOTE: AIRPORT ROW DIVIDES BERLINERS
If you want to get a row going at a Berlin dinner party, just mention Tegel airport... READ MORE›
GERMAN PLANE HIJACKED TO SOMALIA IN 1977 BROUGHT BACK HOME
A Lufthansa passenger jet hijacked to Somalia 40 years ago at the height of a far-left militant group's campaign against West German authorities has returned home... READ MORE›
GERMAN PLANE HIJACKED TO SOMALIA IN 1977 BROUGHT BACK HOME
A Lufthansa passenger jet hijacked to Somalia 40 years ago at the height of a far-left militant group's campaign against West German authorities has returned home... READ MORE›
5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT GERMANY'S ANGELA MERKEL
BERLIN AP -- German voters go to the polls on Sept. 24 and Angela Merkel is hoping to win a mandate for a fourth term as chancellor... READ MORE›
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'MR. PRESIDENT: DON'T BUILD THIS WALL!' BERLIN MAYOR TELLS TRUMP
The day was also the 27th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an irony that did not go unnoticed by many Europeans... READ MORE›
GERMANY REUNIFIED 26 YEARS AGO, BUT SOME DIVISIONS ARE STILL STRONG
Eastern Germany has taken in far fewer refugees than western Germany... READ MORE›
'I THOUGHT I WAS SMARTER THAN ALMOST EVERYBODY'
Soviet agents had found the gravestone of a boy who had died aged 10 in Maryland - Jack Barsky - and got a birth certificate... READ MORE›
25 YEARS LATER: 7 SHOCKWAVES FROM BREAKUP OF SOVIET UNION
The Soviet Union broke up without a civil war, thank God, says Yevgeny Roizman, 54, a historian and mayor of Yekaterinburg, Russia's third-largest city, which borders Siberia... READ MORE›
RICHARD HAASS EXPLAINS WHY WE SHOULD CARE ABOUT UKRAINE
Ukraine voluntarily dismantled its nuclear warheads under a 1994 deal with the U.S., the United Kingdom and Russia... READ MORE›
CUBA OFFERS RUM TO PAY OFF $276M CZECH DEBT
Cuba has come up with an unusual way to repay its multimillion dollar debt to the Czech Republic... READ MORE›
A PROMISE THAT COULD SET THE WORLD ON A DANGEROUS PATH
The arms race also dictated that the Soviet Union respond with overwhelming retaliation against the United States, to quickly neutralize any further threat... READ MORE›
THESE MAPS SHOW HOW RUSSIA HAS EUROPE SPOOKED
Bastion land-based coastal-defense missile launchers In October, Russia beefed up its anti-shipping defenses in Kaliningrad with these launchers... READ MORE›
IN THE ERA OF DONALD TRUMP, GERMANS DEBATE A MILITARY BUILDUP
The NATO deployment marks what analysts describe as Germany's most ambitious military operation near the Russian border since the end of the Cold War... READ MORE›
BERLINS DIGITAL EXILES: WHERE TECH ACTIVISTS GO TO ESCAPE THE NSA
Activist Sarah Harrison, who spent four months assisting whistleblower Edward Snowden, has moved to Berlin... READ MORE›
RUSSIA SO DETERMINED TO INVADE EUROPE IT'S SLASHING DEFENSE SPENDING BY 30 PERCENT
Reports in Russian media suggest that the Kremlin is about to reduce military spending by a whopping 30 percent... READ MORE›
RUSSIA AND THE WEST HAVE 'ENTERED A NEW COLD WAR'
Russia and the West have entered a new Cold War that could lead to growing confrontations across the globe, as Vladimir Putin challenges American international hegemony... READ MORE›
'MR PRESIDENT, DON'T BUILD THIS WALL!'
'Mr President, don't build this wall!' Berlin's mayor urges Trump to learn from history... READ MORE›
FOUR NATO POWERS PREFER RUSSIA TO THE US, GALLUP POLL SHOWS
However, under President Trump, the US and NATO has continued to amass troops and equipment in Eastern Europe, close to Russia's borders... READ MORE›
MONUMENTS AROUND THE WORLD LIT UP WITH UNION FLAG IN SOLIDARITY WITH UK FOLLOWING LATEST TERROR ATTACK
Monuments around the world were lit up on Sunday evening with the Union flag in solidarity with Britain after the latest terror attack... READ MORE›
THREAT OF WAR MAY SOUND SCARIER THAN IT REALLY IS
North Koreas nuclear program is serious, but research on foreign threats and bellicose rhetoric suggests that Americans can hold off on building bomb shelters... READ MORE›
U.S. TROOPS TRAIN IN EASTERN EUROPE TO ECHOES OF THE COLD WAR
The United States Army's presence in Europe is a far cry from the height of the Cold War, 30,000 soldiers now compared with 300,000 then, General Hodges said... READ MORE›
WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE MISS THE SOVIET UNION?
Russia will mark the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Union's dissolution at the end of the year... READ MORE›
BEFORE 'FAKE NEWS,' THERE WAS SOVIET 'DISINFORMATION'
The Patriot's article was subsequently used as a source for an October 1985 story in the Literaturnaya Gazeta, a Soviet weekly with considerable influence at the time... READ MORE›
IN 1983 WAR SCARE, SOVIET LEADERSHIP FEARED NUCLEAR SURPRISE ATTACK BY U.S.
In 1983 we may have inadvertently placed our relations with the Soviet Union on a hair trigger the review concluded... READ MORE›
EUROPE WILL FIND WAY TO KEEP BRITAIN IN EU SAYS GERMAN MINISTER
West Berlin chauvinism, lording it over the humiliated East, hastened the destruction of many East Germany landmarks that, also unpredictably, are now prized as architecturally significant and historically irreplaceable... READ MORE›
WHERE DID IT ALL GO WRONG?
The Russian president has spoken explicitly about the worsening climate between Washington and Moscow, insisting that what the Obama administration wants is diktat rather than dialogue... READ MORE›
ISRAELI ITALIAN AND POLISH CITIZENS WERE AMONG VICTIMS
She was from Sulmona, in the Abruzzo region east of Rome, and had master's degrees from universities in Bologna and Milan... READ MORE›
PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA BEEFING UP NUCLEAR ARSENAL, NATO DENOUNCES 'SABER-RATTLING'
Putin made his comments a day after Russian officials denounced a U.S... READ MORE›
WILL RUSSIA'S LINE IN THE SYRIAN SAND HALT US IMPERIAL AMBITIONS?
Will Russia's line in the Syrian sand halt US imperial ambitions? -- RT Op-Edge... READ MORE›
BERLIN MARKET ATTACK MARS SQUARE WHERE THREE ERAS COEXIST
My friend Uli Kempendorff, who grew up in East Berlin, emailed me on Monday night... READ MORE›
GERMANY TO QUASH CONVICTIONS OF 50,000 GAY MEN UNDER NAZI-ERA LAW
The article was finally dropped from the penal code in East Germany in 1968... READ MORE›
THE PUTIN-TRUMP KISS BEING SHARED AROUND THE WORLD
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump are kissing on the side of a barbecue restaurant in Vilnius, Lithuania... READ MORE›
AS GERMANY MARKS FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL, GORBACHEV WARNS OF NEW COLD WAR
As germany marks fall of the berlin wall gorbachev warns of new cold war... READ MORE›
NINE SURPRISING FACTS ABOUT THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL
An East Berlin policeman adds bricks to heighten the Berlin Wall to 15 feet Oct... READ MORE›