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›
Russia will mark the 25th anniversary of the Soviet Union's dissolution at the end of the year... READ MORE›
In 1983 we may have inadvertently placed our relations with the Soviet Union on a hair trigger the review concluded... READ MORE›
As germany marks fall of the berlin wall gorbachev warns of new cold war... READ MORE›
A Home Office spokesperson said The government is cooperating fully with all investigations into allegations relating to the Kincora boys home... READ MORE›
Gorbachev may well have a rose-tinted view of the Soviet Union, but many in Russia feel the same... READ MORE›
Speaking in Sochi, Russia, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said that a Wednesday meeting would require agreement between Russia and the West on key points beforehand... READ MORE›
Within hours East Germans were dancing on the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate and other border crossings soon opened... READ MORE›
The Berlin Wall was East Germany's way of keeping East Germans from fleeing into the West... READ MORE›
It's worth pointing out that at this time it wasn't just left-wingers like Wilson who supported improved relations with the Soviet Union... READ MORE›
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›
Mr. Philby disappeared in January 1963 and emerged in Moscow about six months later... READ MORE›
It opened the border to Austria and let them through on their way to West Germany... READ MORE›
Mr. Schmidt and West Germany in the mid-'70s were strongly pro-American... READ MORE›
He escaped with the help of two radical anti-nuclear campaigners, Michael Randle and Pat Pottle, and an Irishman, Sean Bourke... READ MORE›
The defection roiled the spy agency 17 of its agents were convicted in the West and at least 15 were called back to East Germany... READ MORE›
Two years later, in a controversial speech, Mr. Bahr articulated his concept of change through contact in dealing with East Germany and the Soviet Union... READ MORE›
I don't like Ossies and can't stand being around them, said west Berlin native Monika Bruecker... READ MORE›
As years go by our citizens get firmer in their opinion that the Soviet Union could have been saved... READ MORE›
BERLIN -- Heinz Kessler, a former head of East Germany's armed forces and a die-hard Communist to the last, died on May 2 in eastern Berlin... READ MORE›
However, like many conflicts of the era, the Soviet Union played a role, too... READ MORE›
Schabowski, a member of and spokesman for the Soviet bloc state's ruling Politburo, was speaking at an otherwise dull news conference on Nov... READ MORE›
'Nobody calls me Stalin' Yosif was not the first child of an African-American to be born in the Soviet Union... READ MORE›
4 at Chernobyl's nuclear power station in the former Soviet Union... READ MORE›
Guenther Schabowski, the former senior East German Communist Party official who accidentally announced the opening of the Berlin Wall, has died at the age... READ MORE›
Perth Airport spokeswoman Fiona Lander explained the reasoning behind the layovers... READ MORE›
Once hitler's prized flight hub and berlin airlift symbol tempelhof set to house refugees... READ MORE›
During the early 1950s, she had an affair with Erich Honecker, a leading Communist Party official who was married at the time... READ MORE›
Berlin Guenther Schabowski, the former senior East German Communist official who accidentally announced the opening of the Berlin Wall before it was official, has died aged 86... READ MORE›
She also honoured the many who suffered under the communist regime, including the 138 people who died at the Wall... READ MORE›
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