News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 month ago
Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, many former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe have distanced themselves from Russia with a series of military, political and economic reforms. But Russia itself is still struggling...
News Source: NewKerala
| about 1 month ago
Mr Gorbachev, who presided over the breakup of the Soviet Union, said 1989 was a turning point in world history, which saw the Berlin Wall's collapse and velvet revolutions that toppled Communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. He said the...
News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 month ago
The demise of the Berlin Wall and all it stood for hold different memories for different people. Overt joy was the emotion felt by many in the West, seeing it as a symbol for the end of the tyranny of communist control...In the former Soviet Union,...
News Source: Reuters
| about 1 month ago
More than half of all Russians do not know who built the Berlin Wall, one of the most enduring symbols of the Cold War, an opinion poll showed on Thursday. Ten percent of people surveyed by pollster VTsIOM thought Berlin residents built it...
News Source: The Globe & Mail
| about 1 month ago
Last updated on Thursday, Nov. 05, 2009 2:00PM EST J an 19 – Soviet Union announces plans to withdraw a tenth of its nuclear warheads from eastern Europe, the first in a string of nuclear-disarmament moves Jan 20 – George H.W.