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Berlin Wall's Lessons for Today
November 05, 2009Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, RFE/RL President Jeffrey Gedmin writes in today's USA Today about the vital need for "trustworthy information" in repressive societies By Jeffrey Gedmin First as a college student, then as a...
Where walls still stand-20th anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall
November 04, 2009Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, leaders of the U.S. Helsinki Commission said Wednesday the U.S. must lead the fight against modern tools of repression and consistently raise human rights concerns. Standing in front of the largest piece...
Post-Communist tensions between civic, material values
November 04, 2009By Peter Fedynsky The collapse of the Berlin Wall came as the result of social, political and economic pressures that built up over decades behind the Iron Curtain. Its demise has exposed some glaring material differences in post-Communist societies...
Republicans gain in US State elections
November 04, 2009By Richard Green The U.S. Republican Party is cheering victories in governor's races in two states that played a pivotal role in Democrat Barack Obama's 2008 presidential election victory. Many observers say the results are a referendum on Mr. Obama...
OSCE/ODIHR to assess presidential election in Romania
October 28, 2009The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) formally opened its limited election observation mission today for the 22 November presidential election in Romania. ODIHR was invited by the Romanian authorities to observe the election...
Moscow blindsides Clinton-led delegation
October 19, 2009By Vladimir Socor The Kremlin blindsided U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with unexpected challenges during her October 13-14 Moscow visit, her first to Russia in that official capacity. The Russian side distorted the agenda previously agreed...
Tammy Lynch: Ukraine pre-election update
October 16, 2009By Tammy Lynch On October 19, Ukraine’s presidential election campaign will officially begin, in advance of the first round of elections on January 17. The campaign is set to take place during Ukraine’s worst economic crisis since the...
US Planning to Treat Russia as It Did the USSR
October 14, 2009By Paul Goble The Obama Administration “has decided to conduct its relations with [the Russian Federation] just as it did with the Soviet Union,” an approach that reflects Washington’s judgment that “in the near future, Russia...
Turkish-Armenian détente: A plus for regional stability
October 14, 2009By Ian O. Lesser On Saturday, the Foreign Ministers of Turkey and Armenia met in Zurich and signed accords aimed at establishing diplomatic relations and opening their closed border. They also agreed to a series of consultations and confidence-building...
Hillary Clinton Upbeat On Russia 'Reset' After Moscow Talks
October 13, 2009By Gregory Feifer Hillary Clinton has said she's pleased with the effects so far of Washington's rapprochement with Moscow during her first visit to the Russian capital as U.S. secretary of state. She said both sides had agreed to work more closely...
