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• Kosovo Crisis Watch – Armenia increases number of peacekeepers in Kosovo (PanARMENIAN.Net)

  
  Global News Blog Headlines — Authority: 533
  Armenia increases number of peacekeepers in Kosovo (PanARMENIAN.Net) Eduard Sharmazanov: strengthening cooperation with NATO, Armenia will consolidate positions in the region. EU fordert Aus für Kraftwerk im Kosovo (Euronews) Beim Thema Energie stellt die EU das Kosovo vor die Wahl zwischen Pest und Cholera: ...
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• The Fall of the Wall: A Resounding Victory for Freedom

  
  Big Government — Authority: 793
  The fall of the Berlin Wall marked a resounding victory for freedom and human dignity.  On this day 20 years ago, a long-standing symbol of division and oppression crumbled under the weight of a revolution inspired by leaders whose faith in God and commitment to freedom changed the world.  Years in the making, that ...
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• New York Times “Celebrates” the Fall of the Berlin Wall

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 741
  In a way, I always knew it would happen. I knew that, come November 9, the left-leaning NYT would publish an article focusing on the supposed crisis of capitalism rather than the end of communist dictatorship. Still, I was not prepared for Slavoj Zizek’s op-ed entitled “ 20 Years of Collapse .” First, a few ...
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• Photos: Clinton in Berlin

  
  Madam Secretary — Authority: 425
  It looks cold and rainy in Berlin right now, but Clinton is there in full force: Clinton delivers a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate during celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (left), French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German ...
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• Fall of the Wall: The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance

  
  Big Government — Authority: 793
  Twenty years ago today, a figurative and literal tear appeared in the once seemingly impenetrable Iron Curtain–the Berlin Wall came tumbling down.  Soon after, millions of East Germans and others under Soviet domination would rise up and demand their freedom. That day, November 9, 1989, will be remembered forever ...
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• Clinton calls fall of Berlin Wall a call to action

  
  Madam Secretary — Authority: 425
  Last night at a gala banquet in Berlin, Secretary Clinton received an Atlantic Council Freedom Award on behalf of the American people. Above, she holds the award while posing with former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, an Atlantic Council board member who introduced Clinton. In delivering the evenings ...
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• The fall of the Berlin Wall: 20 years later

  
  Sherryx's Weblog — Authority: 112
  With capitalism facing its worse crisis after 1929, the imperialists powers are gathering in Germany to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall. As like always, history has different meanings for the elites and imperialists and the people. The imperialists hailed it has the triumph of democracy and freedom, the fall of ...
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• All in All, No More Bricks in the Wall (with apologies to Pink Floyd)

  
  Stephen M. Walt — Authority: 598
  I first saw the Berlin Wall in March 1976, when I arrivedfor a semesters study at Stanfords overseas program there. As an international relations majorinterested in security affairs, I wanted to see the Cold War "up close andpersonal," and what better place to do it than the divided city that was thesite of numerous ...
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• MICROCAPITAL.ORG STORY: Members of Azerbaijan Microfinance Association (AMFA) Reach Microloan Portfolio of USD 393 Million

  
  MicroCapital.org — Authority: 145
  According to an article from the online publication, Azerbaijan Business Center, microfinance institutions (MFIs) that are members of the Azerbaijan Microfinance Association have reached a combined microloan portfolio of USD 393 million as of October 1, 2009 [1,2]. Additionally, the number of active borrowers has ...
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• Berlin Twenty Years On

  
  Conor's Commentary — Authority: 468
  It is hard to believe that it is twenty years since the Berlin Wall came down. But its legacy can be seen throughout an Eastern Europe that has been transformed since, in no small part thanks to the openness of the European Union to countries in the region. I spent over a week in old GDR in 1985, with a Quaker group, ...
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• Russian News Monitor – Russia sees nuke deal with U.S. by January (The Record and Herald News)

  
  Global News Blog Headlines — Authority: 533
  Russia sees nuke deal with U.S. by January (The Record and Herald News) MOSCOW — Russia and the United States have a good chance at signing a new nuclear arms reduction deal before year’s end, but other nuclear powers must join disarmament efforts, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released ...
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• The Berlin Wall fell and a new Europe rose

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 974
  Telegraph View: Over the past 20 years Europe has gained the freedom not just to elect or dismiss a government but also to have access to an incomparably wider range of goods and service.
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• Eastern Europe – Bulgaria Supplies Running after Moldova Blast (Novinite.com)

  
  Global News Blog Headlines — Authority: 533
  Bulgaria Supplies Running after Moldova Blast (Novinite.com) The blast that ripped one of the trunk gas pipelines, supplying Russian gas to the Balkans, in southern Moldova on Sunday morning will not hurt the supplies to Bulgaria, the energy ministry announced. Hungarian championship results and standings (Reuters via ...
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• Chapel in Tarnów, Poland, by Beton Architects

  
  ouno — Authority: 494
  Chapel in Tarnów, Poland, by Beton / Marta Rowińska & Lech Rowiński, who also took the photos. Completed in 2009.  This one, like so many wooden churches, is like being under an inverted wooden ship, and maybe that explains my liking for church architecture in general. Barns. Being a completely non-religious ...
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• Building Blocs

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 759
  Monday marks the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is worth pausing to recall just how momentous, and unanticipated, this event and those that followed were. My students today have no memory of the cold war; to them, Prague and Budapest, just like Paris and Madrid, are simply places to visit or ...
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• WHO’s WHO IN MICROFINANCE: The Russian Microfinance Center (RMC)

  
  MicroCapital.org — Authority: 145
  The Russian Microfinance Center  (RMC) , a not for profit trade organization, was established in 2002 to work on behalf of the Russian microfinance community. Its mission is to promote the development of the entire Russian microfinance market. According to a 2005 World Bank study, entitled “Microfinance in ...
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• What a Loan Smells Like:

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 435
  By Brian Kelly, KF9, Armenia Not very good, at least in some of these Armenian villages I’ve been dropping in on lately.  Have you smelled a chicken coop, or a sty filled with 20 pigs lately? It’s tough to carry a conversation in there.  Visiting borrowers, at least in Armenian villages is quite the sensory ...
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• German parliament commemorates fall of the Berlin Wall

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Berlin, Nov 9 (DPA) The German parliament Sunday celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, commemorating the efforts of European civil rights activists which helped end the divide between East and West in Germany and Europe.“The people east of the Iron Curtain only had their large hearts to set ...
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• UKRAINE CLOSES ALL BORDERS TO SLOVAKIA DUE TO FLU

  
  I'm A Pimpin Turtle... — Authority: 514
  NU.nl TRANSLATION: BRATISLAVA - Slovakia closes all but one border to Ukraine because of the flu outbreak. In Ukraine there are now more than 900.000 people infected and 135 have died so far. At the only open border at Vysne Nemecke, doctors are stationed to check EVERY PERSON for flu symptoms. Anyone who exhibits ...
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