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Letter from India: India's Path Was Paved by Soviet Fall
Pondicherry :: India | 2 days ago
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India's Path Was Paved by Soviet Fall Published: November 19, 2009 With all the attention being paid this month to the fall of the Berlin Wall, I’ve found myself thinking of how much India has changed over the last 20 years. Most of the media coverage...
Tags: Indian, India India, Soviet Union, Jawaharlal Nehru, foreign policy, cold war, India, Pondicherry
Asia benefited most from fall of Berlin Wall
New Delhi :: India | 5 days ago
Credibility But no continent benefited more than Asia, whose dramatic economic rise since 1989 has occurred at a speed and scale without parallel in world history. For Asia, the most important consequence of the fall of the Berlin Wall was that the collapse of communism...
Tags: China, Asian, India, Berlin Wall, cold war, Russia, New Delhi, Eastern Bloc, Revolutions, Soviet Union, Foreign relations of India, Foreign relations of the People's Republic of China, Tiananmen Square protests, Communism, Politics
Online database of Soviet WWII prisoners opens to public
Dresden :: Germany | 5 days ago
Credibility According to the state of Saxony's Ministry of Science in Dresden, the internet archive includes some 700,000 records of World War II prisoners, most of whom died after their capture by German soldiers. A second database contains the names and birth dates...
Tags: Germany, Dresden, Modern history, Wars, World War II, Soviet Union, Nazi crimes against Soviet POWs, World War II casualties, 1930s, 1940s, Prisoner of war, Camps for Russian prisoners and internees in Poland, Nazi Germany, East Germany, War Conflict, Politics, Eastern Front, Military history of the Soviet Union during World War II
Commentary: Afghan exit -- by Gorby
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 5 days ago
Credibility Did Mikhail Gorbachev launch glasnost and perestroika in the mid-1980s with the aim of bringing about genuine democratic change in the Soviet Union? That's what he says in two interviews on both sides of the Atlantic -- Euronews' Maria Pineiro and Nation...
Tags: Mikhail Gorbachev, Afghanistan, Warsaw Pact, Russian, cold war, U.S, America, United States, Iran, Eastern Europe, Kabul, Eastern bloc, Perestroika, Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan, Foreign relations of the Soviet Union, Soviet phraseology, Politics
Gorbachev, the forgotten hero
Moscow :: Russia | 9 days ago
Credibility At the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin this week, one of the defining figures of last century's history celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, in which he played a key role. Lech Walesa and Hillary Clinton, invited to listen to Daniel...
Tags: Berlin Wall, Staatskapelle Berlin, Gorbachev, Russia, Moscow, Iran-Contra affair, Restoration Movement, Mikhail Gorbachev, Cold War, Perestroika, Politics, Ronald Reagan, Soviet phraseology, Eureka College, Erich Honecker, Boris Yeltsin, Soviet Union, Nicolae Ceauￅﾟescu, Order of St. Olav, Economies, Eastern bloc, Tear down this wall, Economic ideologies, Political ideologies, Allied occupation of Germany
1930s journalist Gareth Jones to have story retold
Donetsk :: Ukraine | 9 days ago
Credibility Gareth Jones to have story retold Correspondent who exposed Soviet Ukraine's manmade famine to be focus of new documentary In death he has become known as "the man who knew too much" – a fearless young British reporter who walked from one desperate,...
Tags: Gareth Jones, Ukraine, Josef Stalin, Joseph Stalin, Donetsk, Soviet Union, Holodomor, Famine, Denial of the Holodomor, Walter Duranty, Eugene Lyons, Disaster Accident, Malcolm Muggeridge, Bread, Collective farming
Promises, Promises
Moscow :: Russia | 9 days ago
Credibility No, Medvedev called for a battle against corruption and promised to do so much in establishing law and order that everyone would understand that he was not just keeping the presidential seat warm until Prime Minister Vladimir Putin returned to it in 2012.
Tags: Russian Army, Dmitry Medvedev, Mr. Medvedev, Mr Medvedev, Dmitri Medvedev, medvedev called, APEC, president dmitri, Kremlin, economic developers, Russia, Moscow, Medvedev, Putinism, Foreign policy of Vladimir Putin, Politics, Gazprom, Vladimir Putin, Political corruption, War, Iskander, Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Russia ￢ﾀﾓ South Ossetia relations, Politics of Russia, Superpower, Soviet Union, War Conflict, Asia-Pacific, APEC Peru, APEC Japan, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Diplomatic conferences, Business Finance
Clinton uses Wall fête to speak against extremism
Berlin :: Germany | 13 days ago
Credibility Clinton's appeal in Berlin came as President Barack Obama's administration mulled a new strategy for Afghanistan and sought greater European support for defeating Islamist extremists. "Our history did not end the night the wall came down," Clinton told...
Tags: Berlin Wall, East Berlin, West Berlin, East Germany, Soviet Union, West Germany, east germans, cold war, 20th anniversary, Angela Merkel
President Reagan To Be Honored For Fall Of Berlin Wall
Sources - Newsmax, Reagan Legacy Foundation, Reagan Library President Reagan To Be honored For Fall Of Berlin Wall November 9th will be the twentieth anniversary of the fall of The Berlin Wall. And Former President Ronald Reagan is...
Tags: Reagan, Berlin, Wall, Soviet Union, Gorbachev, SDI, Obama, Bush, Schabowski
Russian communists flirt with Medvedev
Moscow :: Russia | 14 days ago
Credibility 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
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