Germany Volunteers search for missing soldiers 75 years after Second World War Volunteers work to dig up bodies in Klessin, Germany to bring closure to families whose loved ones have only ever been a statistic. 05/05/2020
View Already vulnerable, LGBTIQ people are being used as a pawn in Putin’s latest power play ǀ View 09/03/2020
brussels bureau Scratching music onto X-rays like bootleggers in Soviet Russia A couple of music enthusiasts have been reviving a technique for scratching music onto X-rays. It was a method used in the Soviet Union to listen to music like jazz and rock and roll which was banned by the government. 03/02/2020
Ukraine Holodomor explained: The famine that killed millions in Soviet Ukraine A famine killed millions in Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s. Today, Ukrainians remember its victims. 23/11/2019
no comment Germany marks 30th anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall Germany on Saturday marked the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe. 09/11/2019
Lithuania 'Trembling with elation & fear': One man's memories of the Baltic Way Meet the man who joined two million Latvians, Lithuanians and Estonians in forming a massive human chain on August 23, 1989, to call for independence from the Soviet Union. 23/08/2019
Lithuania Meet the pilot who defied KGB orders to drop flowers on Baltic Way Meet the pilot who defied KGB orders to drop flowers on Baltic Way 23/08/2019
Hungary 30th anniversary of Pan-European picnic: How did it lead to the fall of the Iron Curtain? The Pan-European picnic was supposed to see the opening of the border between Austria and Hungary for three hours to promote peace but triggered a domino effect leading to the fall of the Iron Curtain itself 19/08/2019
world news Vintage car rally celebrates 1989 Baltic Way human chain Vintage cars set out across Baltic states to mark the 30th anniversary of a human chain of over one million people seeking freedom from the USSR. 18/08/2019
Germany The 'candy bombers' who gave a besieged city hope It was the first crisis of the Cold War. But the airlift that saved Berlin 70 years ago still resonates among Germans - and helped cement friendship between former enemies. 12/05/2019
no comment Tourists can now visit ex-Nazi military compound A huge abandoned secret military complex hidden inside a fenced-off pine forest in eastern Germany is no longer off limits. 12/03/2019
no comment Enthusiasts replay the breakthrough of Leningrad’s siege Enthusiasts replay the breakthrough of Leningrad’s siege 27/01/2019
Russia Russian human rights champion Lyudmila Alexeyeva dies The 91-year-old had been ill for a long time after fighting for nearly seven decades to make first the Soviet Union and then Russia a better place. 09/12/2018
The Cube MEPs campaign to stop Amazon from selling Soviet-themed products | #TheCube A letter signed by 27 members of European Parliament has been sent to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, demanding the company halt sales of goods featuring Soviet symbols 19/11/2018
