Closed communist-era factories reap windfall profit for Ukraine but problem for climate deal Vladimir Gapor is a plumber by trade, but now he's ...
A top aide to President Nicolas Sarkozy sought on Thursday to downplay controversy over the French leader's account of how he witnessed the ...
World leaders past and present on Monday gathered for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, with 100,000 people expected at celebrations to toast a free and united Europe. Chancellor Angela Merkel is hosting British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, ...
Berlin warmed up for the 20th anniversary of the Wall's fall with events throughout the city, as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for a new transatlantic push to free those still oppressed. "Our history did not end the night the ...
A chronology of the events in the collapse of communism in Europe Key dates in the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe in 1989: _ June 4: Poland holds first partially free elections in four decades; Solidarity-led opposition wins all but one ...
Born in communist East Germany well before the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, Thomas Nagel is not your typical German stockbroker. "No one in my family had ever worked in a bank," he told AFP. "It was an essentially ...
Out of the bleakest moments east of the Iron Curtain was born an improbable, subversive humour, feeding a stream of popular jokes despite censure, repression and poverty. Dreams of abundance in the West were at the heart of the absurd vignettes, known ...
Capitalism and democracy have lost popularity in the former Soviet republics of Eastern and Central Europe, where many people felt better off economically under communism, a poll showed Monday. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, research by the Pew ...
Poll reveals generation gap on democracy, capitalism in ex-communist European countries Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a sharp generational schism has formed in how people in Europe's former communist countries view the shift to democracy and capitalism, a ...
MIAMI (Reuters) - Using the code name Donna, the younger sister of Fidel and Raul Castro worked undercover for the CIA in Cuba in the early 1960s, helping opponents of their communist rule escape execution and imprisonment, she said in memoirs published ...
A timeline of key dates in the 1989-90 collapse of communism across Eastern Europe For four decades, the communist regimes of Eastern Europe seemed unshakeable. Yet when the end came, it unfolded with stunning speed: 1989: June 4 - Communists overwhelmingly defeated ...
Former Czech President Vaclav Havel is seen during a press conference as the Czech Republic commemorates the 20th anniversary of the fall communism and the Iron Curtain in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) Copyright 2009 AP ...
