In the 1990s, there was reason to hope that Russia was moving toward democracy and that China, despite the Tiananmen Square ...

President Donald Trump's contentious stop to foreign assistance, including the near-closure of the US Agency for ...

Despite making up less than one-fifth of the German population, eastern German voters are in particular focus ahead of the ...

The far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) is dominating polls in East Germany just weeks before the federal election ...

The building had once been the seat of the German government (and is again today) but in the late 1980s had stood largely unused since World War II due to its proximity to the Berlin Wall looming ...

November 9, 1989 sitting watching TV as the Berlin Wall was breached and destroyed under cover of night. I was glued to the ...

Nikita Khrushchev had become leader of the Soviet Union in 1956. In August 1961, he decided to build a wall around West Berlin to stop people escaping to there from East Germany. He gambled that ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...

The oldest border watchtower in the GDR is located near Potsdamer Platz and takes you back to the days of the Cold War.

One PS editor traveled to Berlin, Germany for some winter fun. Here, she details what to know and pack when visiting the ...