PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- They were expropriated for being Jewish by the Germans. They were expropriated for being German by the Communist…
CHICAGO, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- "Yes, Marc, I have received the news of Vladimir Lomeiko's untimely death," Boris Pankin, the last Soviet foreign minister, wrote…
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- On Nov. 17, 1989, students all over Czechoslovakia demonstrated against the Communist regime. On the afternoon of Nov.…
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Europe's democracies are a strange lot. As the European Union, they are experts at economic soft power. Politically,…
SOCHI, Russia, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- In Sochi, politics and corruption converge on history. Even during Soviet times Sochi was the "baksheesh capital" of the…
RIGA, Latvia, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- Oskars Kastens, parliamentarian and until 2008 minister for social integration, represents a generation of youngish, competent and energetic Latvian…