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I spent 48 hours in Berlin and found an unexpected urban oasis of greenery and art. Take a look...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 year agoInsider's reporter visited Berlin for the first time and noticed that on top of all the history, the...
What do the regime of Putin, the Berlin Wall and dictator Milosevic have in common?
The New Voice of Ukraine via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMacron, Scholz, and Draghi seemed shocked by the atrocities of the Russians. I hope that this will...
The Lost History of East Germany
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 8 months agoAt the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Katarina Witt, the figure skater once dubbed “the most beautiful face of socialism,” took to the ice to...
How Anti-Zionism Shrugs Off Antisemitism
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 7 months agoFrom the G-File on The Dispatch Anti-Israel protesters at Potsdamer Platz during a "Freedom for Palestine" march that drew thousands of participants on...
Inside the former communist utopia about to become an EU Capital of Culture
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoSitting in the penthouse bar of the Congress Hotel in Chemnitz, looking down at the bleak modern...
Mikhail Gorbachev death – latest: Transformative Soviet leader dies aged 91
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoRussian news agencies have announced the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet...
14 tourist attractions that epically flopped
LoveEXPLORING via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoFatal attractions ZUMA Press Inc/Alamy Stock Photo If you build it, there is a chance they might not come. At least, that’s what happened with many of...
The West Is Avoiding the Big Question About Ukraine
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJoe Biden’s double bill in Kyiv and Warsaw this week is good political optics on the first anniversary of the worst war in Europe in 80 years. Presumably...
Ukraine-Russia war – live: Ex-Russian officer says Putin’s forces ‘deteriorating’ as Crimea targeted...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAn ex-Russian officer has said Vladimir Putin’s forces are ‘deteriorating’ in Ukraine as the Crimea...
Achtung, baby: Is Jenny Erpenbeck's tale of doomed romance the new Great German Novel?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 12 months agoJenny Erpenbeck's novel 'Kairos' clocks a romance between a man of 58 and a 19-year-old woman in the dying years of East Germany. That's not even the interesting part