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France

Ban on National Bolshevik Party was 'a human rights violation'

Fifteen years after the case was first lodged, during which the founder died, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled Russian courts had not had a strong enough case to ban radical anti-Putin group the National Bolshevik Party.

Slovakia

Slovakia: Parliament backs pension cuts for former communist officials

Slovakia just passed a new law that will reduce the high pensions received by Soviet-era apparatchiks.

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Russian communists remember Stalin on the anniversary of his death

Russian communists on Friday remembered former leader Joseph Stalin as they marked the 68th anniversary of his death.

Bulgaria

Restorers race to save communist-era memorial in Bulgaria

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the construction was abandoned and its works of art severely damaged by vandalism.

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Czech Republic

Oscar-winning Czech film director Jiri Menzel dies aged 82

Jiri Menzel was a figure of the 'Czechoslovak New Wave' - films that touched on the topics of freedom and protest against the communist regime.

Czech Republic

Taiwan furore exposes Czech divisions over East-West direction

The controversial visit of @Vystrcil_Milos to #Taiwan has exposed #Czech divisions over which way the country should look: to Russia and China or to the West.

World News

In pictures: May Day through history

May Day has always been a lot of different things to different people.

Romania

Thirty years on, what is the legacy of communism in Romania?

Thirty years after the end of Nicolae Ceaușescu's regime, Romanians, like others in former Communist countries, show little trust in government institutions.

Romania

Romania looks back 30 years to the revolution that ended communism

In December 1989, the Romanian uprising ended communism in the country.

Romania

Romanian Freedom March commemorates those killed 30 years ago

The Freedom March started from Mary's Square - originally where crowds had gathered to stop the Ceausescu's regime from evicting the reformed pastor Laszlo Tokes on the 15th December 1989. He was seen as a defender of human rights.

Czech Republic

At least 200,000 protest in Prague against Czech PM Andrej Babis

It's claimed to be one of the biggest protests since the fall of communism 30 years ago.

Czech Republic

Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution 30 years on

This weekend marks the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. Hundreds of thousands of Czechoslovakian citizens took part in peaceful protests, demanding the end of the communist regime. It took only a few weeks before the ruling party surrendered and democracy was installed in the country.

Germany

Berlin: From divided city to tourist hot spot

Hardly any other European city has undergone such rapid change in the past 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall

Germany

The tragic fate of Winfried Freudenberg

Winfried decided to risk everything to escape East Germany to West Berlin just months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. This is his tragic story

World News

Euroviews. It’s time to end the guilt-tripping. Europe’s values do need protecting ǀ View

‘This Shameful Europe’ by the editor of Mediapart, Edwy Plenel [...] is a crisp representation of how a one-sided view of the EU was imposed over the last 30 years; how it failed the expectations of citizens from most walks of life and led to the growth of support to the Far-Right parties.

Czech Republic

Czech protests channel the spirit of '68 to call for PM's resignation

Czech protests channel the spirit of '68 to call for PM's resignation

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Lenin: The reimagining of a Russian revolutionary

An exhibition in Russia shows how local artists are grappling with Lenin's legacy of political repression and mass killings.

Living

A wine renaissance is happening in the Balkans

This region had a history of producing wines that predated the Romans and now people are reclaiming this heritage.

World

Romanian ex-president Iliescu faces crimes against humanity charges

Prosecutors say Iliescu was responsible running a campaign of misinformation that created a climate of terror.

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EU project aims to preserve cultural opposition to communism

In partnership with The European Commission

In our Futuris series, we visited an escape room in the Hungarian capital, Budapest. A new European research project is working to preserve historical material related to cultural resistance from the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. But how are they achieving that?