Capturing Lost Soul of Russia in Berlin
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Wladimir Kaminer, the author of several best-selling books about Russian immigrants in Germany, has become an emblem of Berlin's emerging hybrid culture.
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Fifteen years after the Berlin Wall's collapse, the lovingly restored houses, squares and churches in the medieval town of Goerlitz are monuments to what's gone wrong in Germany's massive effort to revive its ...
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The Berlin Wall fell 15 years ago but an  "Iron Curtain" still divides the city as far love and romance  are concerned.
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Lou Reed performs 'Berlin' in a German capital that bears little resemblance to the city that inspired his dystopic masterpiece
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Hitlerâs globe is missing. Wolfram Pobanz, a 68-year-old retired cartographer, is positive that itâs not the one in the Deutsches Historisches Museum, with the Russian bullet hole through Germany, and he can prove it.
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Looking like a futuristic satellite looming high above the city, Berlin's television tower once symbolised the soaring ambitions of the young East German state.
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Forgotten and broken down Soviet-era  arcade games are being restored for Moscow&#39;s newest museum,  just opened by volunteers nostalgic for childhood days spent  playing games like &quot;Tankodrom&quot; and &quot;Sniper.&quot;
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Fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a private museum is rebuilding a 200-meter section close to Checkpoint Charlie, the famous Cold War border crossing, to satisfy tourists who flock to the site.
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MOSCOW I celebrated this July 4 at the rooftop bar of the opulent new Ritz-Carlton hotel here, taking in the breathtaking views of the gilded domes of the Kremlin, where Soviet leaders plotted their war against American economic and military power. Across a skyline drenched by the late-setting sun,...
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With the reopening of the Bode Museum, a cultural park in the former East Berlin has taken another step toward recovering its place as one of the worldÂs great centers of art.
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The ongoing celebration in the Ukrainian capital is beginning to take on a tinge of nostalgia.
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A newly reconstructed version of the 1925 Soviet silent classic "Battleship Potemkin," featuring shots cut from the original, will premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
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The four clocks behind the reception desk of Berlin's new budget hotel Ostel show the hour in Moscow, Berlin, Havana, and Beijing. Time, however, appears to have stopped here sometime before 1989, when communism was still entrenched in all four capitals.
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On November 9, 1989, jubilant Germans breached the ugly concrete wall that separated East and West Berlin. Soon the Wall began to disappear piece by piece, visible evidence the Cold War was over.
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The globe Adolf Hitler gazed upon while contemplating world domination is in remarkably good condition but for one blemish &amp;#151; the bullet hole directly through Berlin, inflicted by a Soviet soldier after the Nazi dictator&#039;s defeat in 1945.
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Hollywood studios and Russian tycoons are teaming up to make films in Moscow. Is it worth the trouble?
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The spectacular Flick collection of modern art is opening in Berlin - but it is tainted by the Nazi past.