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Russia's communist party denounced powerful Prime Minister Vladimir Putin while cautiously praising President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday as a man who had brought 'certain hopes' to the country. Putin, who has ruled as "first among equals" with his hand-...
Tags: Russian, Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Putin, Moscow, president dmitri, dmitri medvedev, Der Spiegel magazine, Communist East Germany, arms control, Soviet Union
But almost at the same time, behind the backs of the GDR leadership, contacts with FRG (West Germany) leaders were established to feel out the terms for German reunification,'' Mr Krenz said while presenting the Russian version of his book ''Herbst 1989''...
Tags: Communist East Germany, Mikhail Gorbachev, Russia, Moscow
Currently, the states that made up the former East Germany have a per capita Gross Domestic Product that is just 71 percent of that in the former West Germany...The gap persists despite hundreds of billions of euros that have flowed east in infrastructure...