MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/. The German embassy in Russia has issued apologies for posting a map with a wrong flag of the Soviet Union on social media.

In the world of micronations, there are quirky and unusual conflicts that continue to intrigue both historians and enthusiasts. One of the most fascinating cases is the ongoing "war" between a ...

In this video, we explore how semiconductors, a critical component of modern electronics, played a role in the downfall of East Germany and why it ultimately ruined the nation’s economy.In the ...

Chaos ensued on German roads this week after Google Maps wrongly informed drivers that highways throughout the country were closed during a busy holiday. Many of the apparently closed roads were ...

Germany's spy agency on Friday classified the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as "extremist", enabling it to step up monitoring of the country's biggest opposition party, which decried the ...

The former East Germany still votes virtually as a separate country — and increasingly for a party that has been linked to neo-Nazis.

The stark east-west divide in national vote share from Germany’s national election on Sunday has been revealed in new data. News agency Reuters has created a map using result figures that show a ...

The far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) is dominating polls in East Germany just weeks before the federal election on Feb. 23.

How maps’ names and border territories − and what they omit - can project different political objectives.

Photos held in a German archive reveal how barriers were tested to prevent East German citizens attempting to flee to freedom, even by killing them.

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War, paving the way for German reunification in 1990 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Tieu, who engages with conceptual art and minimalist tradition, utilized the object’s ready-made materiality to represent the restricted experience of Vietnamese contract workers in East Germany.