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Armenia and its revolution of hope

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"What are the words one uses to describe something that they thought would never happen? Something that just weeks ago would have been laughed at as unrealistic?"

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Review: Bridge of Spies

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Steven Spielberg's latest movie stars Tom Hanks as an Atticus Finch-type character defending a marginalized person in American society: in this case a suspected Soviet spy in the Cold War era. You can catch the movie at Leipzig's Luru Kino tonight.

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#GoingGlocal: “Thank you for your letter,” Part IV

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"My sudden love affair with Aitmatov nearly made me flunk my German exam in tenth grade. 'Heroes of Our Everyday Socialist Life' was to be the topic of our written compositions. I wrote an essay about Aitmatov’s novel The Place of the Skull. [My German teacher] managed to save me from flunking. But Aitmatov saved

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#GoingGlocal: “Thank you for your letter,” Part III

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"In history class, I single-handedly denigrated the Soviet Union. We were sitting with our textbooks open. I felt bored. There was a photo of Lenin on the page. With my ballpoint pen, I drew Lenin an earring and a Mohican haircut... Forty years earlier in Thuringia, a schoolgirl had adorned a portrait of Stalin with

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