Tag: Berlin Wall
11 Brightest Moments of Mikhail Gorbachev in Pop Culture
The person who destroyed the communist regime and the Berlin Wall could not help but inspire artists and film directors and leave his mark on popular culture. Read below how the first and only president of the Soviet Union became a hero of conceptualists, TV series, pop art, music – and even advertising. Gorbachev in […]
The women who want to revolutionize Iran
Unique voices from inside IranConflict calls via encrypted apps to Iran. Hear about the hairdresser “Parvin” from the same city as Mahsa Jina Amini who is now protesting for the first time, Swedish-speaking “Gisoo” who goes out without a veil despite extreme fear and “Ali”, one of all the men who are now closing up […]
1989: So the Satanic Verses became the starting point for global threats against authors
What does the voice mean for the audiobook? When audiobooks take off, literature takes on another aspect to relate to, for some, who reads is almost as important as who wrote the book. Reportage from a new literary soundscape. P1 Kultur’s theme of the year 1989 continues. Today it is about one of the absolute […]
Germany approves delivery of 1960s military hardware to Ukrainian media
Berlin has reportedly approved the potential transport of dozens of Czech-owned Soviet-era armored vehicles to Kyiv Germany has given the green light to supply 58 armored vehicles from the Cold War to Ukraine, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense told the newspaper Welt this Friday. While infantry combat vehicles (IVFs) are currently owned by […]
* NEW * Love Parade: the techno festival that ended in disaster
The year is 2010 and Manfred has taken the train to the German city of Duisburg to go to the Love Parade. The techno festival is one of the largest in the world. He looks forward to dancing sweaty to heavy bass passages. But once inside the festival area, worries and ominous rumors of chaos […]
The complete list of Russian Nobel laureates
After Dmitry Muratov was awarded the Peace Prize in October 2021, we remember other Russian laureates of various Nobel Prizes over the years. Alexander Kislov Russian Empire 1. Ivan Pavlov – Physiology and Medicine, 1904 Ivan Pavlov General goods Famous for his experiments with dogs, a pioneer in physiology, Pavlov was Russia’s first Nobel laureate […]
Performance Review: Happy Ever After Watching This Amazing Version Of ‘Hamlet For Actresses’
Funny, ruthless and philosophical, Samuel Beckett’s ‘Happy Days’ has an incredibly simple premise: a woman, Winnie, is buried up to her waist in a mound of earth under the beating sun, where she remains trapped in the play. Occasionally she interacts with her companion who is out of sight, Willie — otherwise it’s pretty much […]
Now the planet’s changes since 1984 can be seen on Google Earth
It has long been possible to search for a specific address via Google Earth and view it from above using a satellite image. But now the search service is expanding with 24 million satellite images, so you can see how a specific place has developed year by year from 1984 to now. With the upgrade, […]
Towards stronger global security cooperation
I was born in 1967. I can still remember the global security status of the Cold War years. At the time, the world was divided globally into two competing coalitions. Fierce competition between the US-led Western bloc and the Soviet-led Eastern bloc developed tensions and increased security concerns around the world. After the collapse of […]
