I met Angelika Wachs for only a few minutes of my life. But what moments they were. In order to view this feature, you must download the latest version of flash player here. The fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989 signaled the beginning of the end ...
GENEVA — Western powers now in Afghanistan run the risk of suffering the fate of the Soviet Union there if they cannot halt the growing insurgency and an Afghan perception that they are foreign invaders, according to Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former U.S. ...
TARUSA, Russia The tablets were simple, and understated, so much so that some residents and many regular visitors had never noticed them. The story they turned out to tell had epic touches fitting for the vastness of Russia and its history, as well as ...
HELSINKI — Twenty years ago, as the Communist grip on Eastern Europe was palpably crumbling but none of us could quite glimpse the imminent fall of the Berlin Wall, I covered thousands of miles, often by car, across the Soviet bloc. Rock music was ...
VENICE — Days before his country, Sweden, took over the presidency of the European Union, Carl Bildt was sipping a postprandial espresso, enjoying the sun and the waterfront vista stretching toward St. Mark’s. But, as befits a foreign minister with ...
AMSTERDAM — Just over 300 years ago, the first Russian ruler to come West — the man who would earn the title of Peter the Great — arrived, incognito, in Holland, where in the great city and port of Amsterdam he learned shipbuilding and other crafts, ...
BLAGOEVGRAD, BULGARIA — Back in late 1991, when things seemed very dark in the Balkans, I came to this nondescript town of 70,000 or so at the foot of the Rila and Pirin mountains, and found something rare, and inspiring. At the time, Serbs and Croats ...
PARIS: The message arrived last weekend with a glossy thud: a 300-plus-page edition of Madame Figaro, the French daily's weekly ode to women and beauty, dedicated to the first Paris ready-to-wear fashion shows since the advent of "la crise" in the ...
WARSAW: The president of Poland challenged the view that Eastern Europe as a whole is heading into a deep recession that is dragging down Western Europe and posing grave risks to the global economy, warning in an interview against lumping all countries ...
WARSAW Challenging the view that Eastern Europe is heading into a deep recession that is dragging down Western Europe and posing grave risks to the global economy, Poland’s president warned against lumping all of the countries in the region “into one ...
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