Czechs mark anniversary of communist rule's demise
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Waving a Czech flag, a marcher flashes a V-sign in Prague, Czech Republic, on Wednesday during a demonstration commemorating the 15th anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution.Keys are jingled in Prague during ...
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ZITTAU, Germany  - Frontiers in east Europe once guarded by machineguns and barbed wire in the Cold War fell away on Friday as nine mostly former communist states joined the EU's border-free zone amid fireworks, cheers and music.
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Vietnam marks the 20th anniversary of the Communist Party's decision to gradually abandon state socialism.
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World leaders gather in southern Poland to mark 60 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp.
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Romania on Thursday commemorated the victims of a 1941 Bucharest pogrom in which 121 Jews were killed by Romanian fascists.
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A service is held in Budapest to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the ghetto in Budapest.
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LESKOVAC, Serbia -- The crumbling factory walls and idle smokestacks that dominate this town are replicated across Eastern Europe, symbols of once-proud industrial centers that fell into decline almost as soon as the Berlin Wall came down.
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Today, Germans remember the fall of the Berlin Wall -- an ecstatic night of pure joy when the communist East German government allowed its citizens unhindered access to the bright lights, well-stocked ...
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Ukraine quietly marked the second anniversary of the Orange Revolution on Wednesday, with both supporters and opponents of the mass protests pausing to recall an event that all agree changed this former Soviet republic.
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Ukraine this week marks the anniversary of   one of World War Two's most notorious wartime massacres,   reflecting on a key stage in Nazi Germany's plan to kill off   European Jewry and on persisting anti-Semitism at home.
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MOSCOW, November 7 (RIA Novosti) - Communists and other Left-wing opposition forces rallied on Theater Square, in Moscow&#39;s center, on the 87th Bolshevik Revolution anniversary.
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PRAGUE, Oct 22 (IPS) - The reforms proposed by the governing coalition in  the Czech Republic could dismantle not only the most successful  welfare state in the post-communist region, but also break a long  tradition of social solidarity in a country that boasts the  lowest poverty rate in Europe.
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MOSCOW: Russia celebrated a holiday on Sunday that under the Julian calendar was in October, that commemorates the beginnings of a state that no longer exists.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday exchanged congratulations with presidents of Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to mark the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations with the ...
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BERLIN  - Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder paid tribute to east Germans on Monday for bringing down the Berlin Wall 15 years ago, saying the entire country should be proud of their peaceful overthrow of communist rule.
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Ukrainians are to gather in Kiev to mark seven years since the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.
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Holocaust survivors and their families gathered at one of Europe's largest Jewish cemeteries Sunday to remember more than 200,000 Jews from this city killed by the Nazis, a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the last transports from the Lodz ghetto to Hitler's death camps.