Berlin Wall
2009 in review: Requiem for the revolutions
December 29, 2009By Brian Whitmore In 1989, seven months before the Berlin Wall came down amid jubilant celebrations across Europe, Ghia Marghulia joined thousands in the center of the Georgian capital to protest Soviet rule. Now the director of a Tbilisi public...
Moldovan premier meets chairman of Romanian Senate Geoana
November 14, 2009Prime Minister Vlad Filat met Chiarman of the Romanian Senate Mircea Geoana in Bucharest today. The two officials tackled aspects on the Moldovan-Romanian bilateral relations, the government's press service said. "You have won the admiration of...
Moldova keeps fighting for attention
November 11, 2009By Vlad Spânu The Republic of Moldova surprised many in April when youths took control of Chisinau’s main square, Piata Marii Adunari Nationale (or "PMAN", which became one of the most "wanted" words on Twitter during...
World leaders line up to mark fall of Berlin Wall
November 09, 2009World leaders past and present have joined thousands of Germans in Berlin today to celebrate one of the watershed events in the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe 20 years ago -- the fall of the Berlin Wall. On November 9, 1989, crowds of jubilant...
Berlin Marks 20th Anniversary of Wall's Fall
November 09, 2009By Sonja Pace World leaders, dignitaries and thousands of visitors are in Berlin to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is a time to remember the past and celebrate the November day in 1989 that changed the future. Despite...
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...