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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

27th January, 2017 27927

GERMANY REUNIFIED 26 YEARS AGO, BUT SOME DIVISIONS ARE STILL STRONG


Eastern Germany has taken in far fewer refugees than western Germany... READ MORE

4th October, 2016 18433

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

22nd December, 2016 14275

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

14th April, 2017 12005

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

16th December, 2016 11477

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

24th December, 2016 9858

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

23rd November, 2016 8195

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

6th March, 2017 7769

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

9th November, 2014 7670

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

2nd November, 2016 7392

GERMANY IS TURNING 62 MILITARY BASES INTO WILDLIFE SANCTUARIES


Today the European Green Belt is an ecological network and memorial landscape running from the Barents to the Black Sea... READ MORE

20th June, 2015 6418

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

24th October, 2016 5909

'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

28th January, 2017 5908

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

18th February, 2017 5521

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

10th August, 2017 5235

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

7th August, 2017 4955

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

21st December, 2016 4286

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

26th November, 2016 4278

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

24th October, 2015 3034

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

19th November, 2014 2786

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

17th October, 2016 2761

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

16th June, 2015 2539

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

8th October, 2016 2505

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

20th December, 2016 2476

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

23rd June, 2017 2295

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

13th May, 2016 2117

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

9th November, 2014 2090

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

9th November, 2014 1991

HELMUT SCHMIDT ASSERTIVE WEST GERMAN CHANCELLOR DIES AT 96


For decades, Mr. Schmidt was one of West Germany's most popular politicians... READ MORE

10th November, 2015 1909

NATO RETURNS ITS ATTENTION TO AN OLD ADVERSARY RUSSIA


I don't think we're in the Cold War again... READ MORE

23rd June, 2015 1903


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