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06.11.2009, 10:43

Fall of Berlin Wall – observers’ recollections

Germany is preparing to celebrate 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. On the eve of the anniversary, RT met some of the politicians who experienced this historic event.

West Berliners crowd in front of the Berlin Wall early 11 November 1989 as they watch East German border guards demolishing a section of the wall in order to open a new crossing point between East and West Berlin, near the Potsdamer Square (AFP Photo / Gerard Malie) 06.11.2009, 11:28

“The fall of the Berlin Wall was the end of 20th Century”

On the eve of the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, RT's Sophie Shevardnadze caught up with Lotha de Mazziere - the last Prime Minister of East Germany.

11.07.2010, 01:23 5 comments

Serbia is under endless pressure

Serbian police have arrested the wife of Bosnian-Serb wartime military chief Ratko Mladic, who is wanted by The Hague tribunal for war crimes.

Supporters of Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic hold up a picture of Karadzic during a rally in Banja Luka on 26 July, 2008 (AFP Photo / Milan Radulovic) 03.11.2009, 19:00 1 comment

“Western politicians not interested in truth in Karadzic case”

Radovan Karadzic will do his best to prove the Serbian nation is innocent of all crimes, Mladen Obradvich from the Serbian Nationalist Party told RT.

17.12.2009, 09:19

Holodomor cannot be termed genocide - PACE

A famine that killed millions in the Soviet Union in the 1930s cannot be described as a genocide that targeted the Ukrainian people, the Council of Europe has said.

Photo from www.deportationday.eu 28.01.2010, 05:21 46 comments

Lithuania opens Gulag prison camp for students

A recreated Stalin-era prison camp near Vilnius, a Gulag, has become a peculiar attraction for EU students. Each day some 40 young people spend the day as prisoners under the surveillance of stern guards.

05.04.2010, 18:30 24 comments

NATO soldiers to march on Red Square with Russian troops for first time

In an unprecedented event, battalions from Britain, France and the United States will participate in the military parade on May 9 this year in Moscow to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Russia-NATO relations
10.06.2010, 23:00 49 comments

Hungary equates Communism to Nazism

Hungarian lawmakers have passed a bill equating Communist era crimes to the Holocaust and banned denying it under threat of imprisonment.

22.05.2010, 10:41 34 comments

European Court decision on WWII veteran– attempt to rewrite history

Russia’s lower house has harshly condemned Europe’s Court on Human Rights verdict to uphold Latvia’s war crimes conviction of Soviet WWII veteran Vasily Kononov. The State Duma dubbed the case “purely political”.

image from www.icj-cij.org 22.07.2010, 18:34 34 comments

UN Court rules Kosovo independence is legal

The UN court has ruled that Kosovo’s unilateral secession from Serbia was legal. The non-binding decision is believed to have implications for Kosovo and become a precedent for de-facto states seeking independence.

Fall of Berlin Wall – “triumph of capitalism”

Published: 06 November, 2009, 20:18


The collapse of the Berlin Wall did unite East and West Germany, but still hasn’t overcome all sorts of social divisions between two parts of the country, Adrian Pabst from Kent University told RT.

 
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