Nov 15th, 2008 · Growing up during the Reagan era, Jason Eskenazi heard so much about "The Evil Empire" that when the Berlin Wall came down, he had to go visit it. He ended up spending more than a decade photographing life in the former Soviet Union.
Jul 24th, 2008 · The presidential hopeful addressed an expansive crowd Thursday near the site where the Berlin Wall once stood, calling on the U.S. and Europe to build new bridges of partnership. "The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand," Obama said, alluding to often strained relations between Europe and the U.S. under President Bush.
Nov 11th, 2007 · The peculiar little automobiles manufactured in East Germany were once the subject of derision. Now, 50 years after the Trabant's first production, collectors cherish these relics on wheels. This week in Washington, D.C., collectors celebrated the Trabant and the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Apr 27th, 2007 · Russian cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, who courageously fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, died Friday in Moscow. He was 80.
Feb 9th, 2007 · The Lives of Others is set in communist East Berlin in the days before the fall of the Berlin Wall. It focuses on a police captain who is forced to put a wire tap on a famous playwright.
Jun 13th, 2006 · In the '70s and '80s, Dean Reed's albums went gold in the Soviet Union. A new book traces the life of Reed, who took rock 'n' roll across the Berlin Wall and became a star.
Jul 5th, 2005 · Berlin's city council wants to get rid of a memorial at the site of Checkpoint Charlie, a security gate on the Berlin Wall. Hundreds of black crosses represent those killed trying to escape East Germany. The director of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum says the land is sacred. The council finds the memorial tacky.