An often overlooked feature of the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc states' cultural character, we select five bands from ...

Hollywood is wearing Moldova. From Katy Perry to Drew Barrymore’s co-host, Moldovan fashion is making its mark. “I simply ...

Luciano Rezzolla, chair of theoretical astrophysics at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, remarks that “black holes as ... Junhan Kim, Motoki Kino, Jun Yi Koay, Prashant Kocherlakota, Yutaro Kofuji ...

01/15/2025 January 15, 2025 The Ministry for State Security, or Stasi for short, was the GDR's secret police. It spied on and monitored citizens, imprisoned opposition members, and carried out ...

But his assertive statements, such as questioning whether the unequal living standards in the former East and West Germanys could ever be evened out, broke taboos in the German political ...

On January 15, 1990, East Germany's secret police headquarters was stormed, after civil disobedience actions for months beforehand paved the way. That September, the curtain would close on the ...

Matthias Lilienthal will take over running the Berlin playhouse, which has been lurching from crisis to crisis for years.

Last week Schörner came back from the dead. Released from a brainwashing camp somewhere in the Soviet Union, he arrived in East Germany to take over “a military post.” When the Communists ...

Sven Liebich, who was convicted last year on charges of inciting hatred and defamation, is appealing his 18-month prison sentence in the east German state of Saxony. But in an unusual twist to his ...

Last weekend Musk addressed an AfD rally in Halle, east Germany, telling party members that Germans should move beyond guilt – adding, in an apparent reference to the crimes of the Nazis ...