Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
More than 30 past and present world leaders, including Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, took part in the celebrations of the 20th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall in the German capital. The leaders who included UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton participated...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Reagan Files is proud to announce the digital publication of top-secret letters between Pres. Reagan and the four Soviet leaders during the Reagan presidency. The top-secret letters are online at the Reagan Files website. Reagan first started corresponding with General Secretary Brezhnev in 1981, and after spending time reflecting...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
BERLIN, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Soviet leader President Mikhail Gorbachev was awarded the 2009 EMA Free Your Mind Award in Berlin last night on the eve of the 20th anniversary celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall. President Gorbachev received the prestigious Award from Bill Roedy, Chairman & Chief Executive, MTV Networks International, at a private gala dinner hosted...
Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
Paris: Thousands of people lined the streets of Berlin and crowded around the Brandenburg Gate as world leaders, shielding from the rain under large white umbrellas, congregated around German Chancellor Angela Merkel to celebrate the 20th ...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Berlin, Nov. 9 (AP): Chancellor Angela Merkel and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev crossed a former fortified border today to cheers of "Gorby! Gorby!" as a throng of grateful Germans recalled the night 20 years ago.
Pravda (Free subscription) | yesterday
World leaders join tens of thousands of tourists and well-wishers on the streets of Berlin celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall. Chancellor Angela Merkel, the first German leader to have grown up in communist East Germany, told a ceremony at the historic Brandenburg Gate that German unity was still incomplete, as the East lagged in economic growth.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
BERLIN (Reuters) - World leaders past and present will join German crowds on Monday to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall -- a stark symbol of the Cold War that divided a city and a continent.
Global Security (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
World leaders past and present have joined thousands of Germans in Berlin today to celebrate one of the watershed events in the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe 20 years ago -- the fall of the Berlin Wall. the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
CHANCELLOR ANGELA Merkel welcomes world leaders in Berlin today to remember what she has called the “unbelievable day” 20 years ago when the Berlin Wall fell.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
BERLIN (Reuters) - World leaders past and present will join German crowds on Monday to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall -- a stark symbol of the Cold War that divided a city and a continent.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
A bad-tempered dinner party between Soviet leaders and the British Labour Party during the Cold War may have changed the course of history, top secret intelligence documents reveal.
Suzie-Q (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
By Jordan Fabian, The Hill, Nov. 10, 2009 Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Tuesday advised President Barack Obama to prepare to withdraw forces from Afghanistan, rather than adding more troops. The USSR leader, who in 1986 began the withdrawal of Soviet troops [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
... on the Mount doesn't cut it for you, take German Chancellor Angela Merkel's praise for the former Soviet leader at the ceremony marking the fall of the Berlin Wall, which he helped destroy: "You courageously allowed things to happen, and that was much more than we could have expected." The hero's reception granted Gorbachev when he accompanied the German leader across the Bornholmer...
Chasing Evil (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kristallnacht remembered in Berlin: "Source: [b]Morning Star[/b][b]Kristallnacht remembered in BerlinMonday 09 November 2009[/b]As German Chancellor Angela Merkel, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachov and ex-Polish president Lech Walesa celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, more subdued tributes we..."Read the full article at the link.
Sri Lanka Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge (November 11, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian)The world came together in Berlin last night to celebrate the 20th anniversary of fall of the Berlin Wall. On November 9, 1989 the East Germany's Communist rulers opened the Berlin Wall as the aftermath of Perestroika and Glasnost and also by the continuous pressure of the Easter German Public. The Soviet leader Mikhail...
