The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty would have run out at the weekend - but Moscow and Washington decided at the last minute to extend it while they try to complete negotiations in a replacement.
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I’ll never forget seeing the the fall of the Berlin Wall unfold live on TV while I was at UCLA. When I again saw the file footage of the man breaking down the wall on the 20th Anniversary of the event, it reminded me of an similar image on an item that I had stored away. In the autumn of 1999, I...
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iReport — Henry Kissinger and Mikhail Gorbachev meet Nov 8th in Potsdam (Germany) in Villa Schoeningen near the Glienicke Bridge where in the time of the Cold War the Sovjetunion and the USA exchange captured spies.Videos by: Markku Rainer Peltonen
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iReport — U2 cocert by Brandenburger Gate on Nov 5 2009 in same place where president Reagan said in 1987: "Mister Gorbachev - open this gate!"Photos and videos by: Markku Rainer Peltonen
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iReport — I visited the Eastside Gallery during my first visit to Berlin. The weather veiled the day with darkness and rain as I walked along the Graffiti covered remains of the Berlin Wall. I read the many messages carved and scribbled along the wall marking memories of many that have traveled...
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iReport — The Fall of the Berlin Wall - 20th Anniversary - Mikhail Gorbachev and George H. W. Bush in Berlin, Friedrichstadtpalatz, 10/31/09.Photos and videos by: Markku Rainer Peltonen
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iReport — This is the checkpoint near what was Hof, West Germany at the time. It was not long after the wall came down so we were free to pass between West and East Germany. The images at the end of the video were taken as we were going in to East Germany on a trip to visit the Castle Leuchtenbu...
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iReport — Lech Walesa, Mikhail Gorbachev and Angela Merkel on Nov 9th 2009 on the same bridge (Böse Brücke), Bornholmer Strasse, where on Nov 9th 1989 the first East Germanies came to West Berlin.Photos and videos by: Markku Rainer Peltonen
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Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin wall, a new wall—one that will divide a continent—is under construction on the US border with Mexico. And a government that once called for an end to such division is today its gatekeeper.
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