Just south of the Brandenburg Gate is the famous Potsdamer Platz public square, perhaps the most commercial evidence of Berlin's post-Cold War development. Here you'll find the Sony Center ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded that Ukraine cede its occupied territories—Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and ...

The Glienicke Bridge connects Berlin and Potsdam and was a legendary site during the Cold War. The USA and the Soviet Union ...

Cold War bunkers, and Prussian palaces just a short U-Bahn ride away from each other. —Eliot Stein How to spend a day discovering Berlin's creative side How to spend a day discovering Berlin's ...

The end of the Cold War By the beginning of the 1980s, the Soviet Union faced several challenges. The taking down of the Berlin Wall in 1989 kick-started the fall of the Soviet Union.

On 13 August 1961, the Soviet authorities in East Germany sealed off East Berlin – their zone of occupation - by constructing a huge barbed wire barrier. This was soon replaced by a concrete ...