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08/11/2009 Germans happy with unification 20 years after wall fell

Only eight percent of easterners and 12 percent of westerners think the unification of West and East Germany in 1990 was a bad decision, two...

08/11/2009 East of the Iron Curtain, gallows humour helped society cope

Twenty years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, they are one aspect of life under Communism that still unites people from Berlin to Moscow, often...

08/11/2009 Shevardnadze: Opposition to tearing down Berlin Wall fierce

Eduard Shevardnadze, who as the Soviet Union's last foreign minister was one of the key figures in the collapse of Communism in Eastern...

08/11/2009 Book: Communists set up first drug, arms traffic in Bulgaria

The book, entitled "The Empire of Communist International Trade Companies," by investigative journalist Hristo Hristov, claims that it...

08/11/2009 US warns five EU countries of fading visa-waiver hopes

Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Poland and Romania have not yet satisfied US conditions -- largely focused around overstay rates and a requirement to...

08/11/2009 Defiant Communists mark Russian Revolution anniversary

Waving red hammer-and-sickle flags, thousands marched down Tversyaka Street in central Moscow to hold a meeting by the statue of Karl Marx close to...

08/11/2009 Britain rallies G20 on climate change, despite fading hopes

As ministers and central bankers also debated how best to firm up the world economic recovery, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged them to...

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