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The Independent Institute: 20 Years On

posted by eagle on November, 2009 as ANALYSIS / OPINION

20 Years On
November 4, 2009
Alvaro Vargas Llosa

WASHINGTON—Historical moments are best judged from a distance, when the eye is able to focus on the whole canvas. Given the misconceptions that seem to surround the fall of the Berlin Wall, what is striking about the 20th anniversary of the events of Nov. 9, 1989, is not how much, but how little time has passed for countries still living under totalitarian conditions.

Many people, young and old, believe the collapse of communism in Europe was bound to happen. “Crushed by its own weight,” “implosion” and “untenable” are usually attached to the disintegration of the Soviet empire, symbolized in the announcement given by East German propaganda minister Gunter Schabowski on the fateful day that East Berliners were free to cross to the other side. If much of the world’s intelligentsia thought that socialism’s triumph was unstoppable before it was stopped, their peers today conveniently dismiss the importance of those events as “predictable” in order to concentrate the mind on the ...

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World Bulletin: Russia's Putin tells his role in day of Berlin Wall fall

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Russia's Putin tells his role in day of Berlin Wall fall

Putin has spoken for the first time to a television interviewer about the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Monday, 02 November 2009

Vladimir Putin has spoken for the first time to a television interviewer about the fall of the Berlin Wall and his role in confronting an angry German crowd of protesters while working as a KGB officer stationed in Dresden.

Putin, by far Russia's most powerful politician, described the Wall as something artificial and its end as "a normal, natural event", said the journalist who conducted the interview, Vladimir Kondratyev of Russian channel NTV.

"What had to happen, happened. I believe the division of Germany had absolutely no future," Putin said in an advance clip of the interview aired by NTV.

NTV will screen the full interview on Sunday evening.

Kondratyev, who was working for Soviet television in Bonn, West Germany in 1989, said that despite Putin's spy brief in East Germany "neither Putin, nor Kohl, nor Gorbachev -- nobody ...

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World Bulletin: Thirty Percent Of Russia's Political Prisoners "Muslims": Memorial

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Thirty percent of Russia's political prisoners "Muslims": Memorial

Russian human rights groups declared that thirty percent of the political prisoners in the former communist state are Muslims.

Saturday, 31 October 2009 12:56

World Bulletin / News Desk

Russian human rights groups declared on Friday that thirty percent of the political prisoners in the former communist state are Muslims, calling for an immediate amnesty for all political prisoners.

The day on October 30 was declared Day of the political prisoner in the USSR in 1974.

Memorial and other human rights and community organizations held a meeting with the slogan "Freedom for political prisoners in Russia."

According to IslamNews representative Memorial Bakhrom Khamroev, today the number of political prisoners in Russia is about 100 people. Of these, nearly a third – the Muslims have been convicted for their religious and political views.

Despite Muslims are only 10-15% of the around 145-million Russia, their population among political prisoners corresponds 30 percent.

Russia is home of 20 million officially self-identified Muslims.

Organizers of the rally call for an immediate ...

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