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Heard the one about the fair elections conducted in the Second World War in which Stalinist loyalists won? A ‘let-bygones-be-bygones' approach to history has the advantage...

Leaders decide at summit in Brussels to launch negotiations on political pact, discuss nuclear accident. Japan and the European Union have agreed to prepare for talks on...

The difficulties in securing raw materials. Ensuring adequate supplies of raw materials – from agricultural commodities to metals, minerals, wood and rubber – is...

As this column noted recently, the era of ‘therapeutic historiography' is drawing to a close in central and eastern Europe (with the odd exception). Even before the...

Central and eastern Europe may be joining the European club of the ahistorical and apathetic. Where would they be without their past, the ex-captive nations? (Or...

Under US pressure, Germany and others appear set to answer one of Europe's most fundamental security questions. In a crunch, would NATO stand by its weakest members – the...

A new vision is needed to secure Europe, senior Russian, US and German political figures write. Twenty years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall promised great hope that...

If you are planning to give an eastern European country some unpleasant news, it is good to know which dates to avoid. History was a long time ago, unless it happened to...

What Russia's prime minister should have said at the commemoration of the start of the Second World War in Gdańsk. Honoured guests, dear Excellencies.

Insults, excuses and not knowing how to say ‘sorry' should be the behaviour of children, not grown-ups. Naughty and tiresome children like insults (both overt and...

Comparisons between countries' shameful wartime episodes are fraught with difficulty and hard to measure. How far does context determine blame and praise? That is a question...

It says much that, in Russia, equating Stalin with Hitler might be deemed a criminal act. It is depressing that it even needed to be discussed. On Sunday in Vilnius, the...

Russia can do better than bully other countries to abandon complexities and fit their history into a Soviet straitjacket. Forget gas, nukes or Iran. The deep divide between...

Two new films raise questions about Poland's battle to overthrow Nazi and Soviet occupation. Watching Daniel Craig, the actor best known as James Bond, playing a Jewish...

Series of meetings to hammer out details; Malta insists on more ‘burden-sharing'.

With increased international commitments, Finns are starting to question their country's military neutrality. Although Finland is not a member of NATO, Finnish troops are...

A disputed theological point has been raised, perhaps inadvertently, by three centre-right Hungarian MEPs, József Szájer, László Surján and Péter...

Wait until the 2008 presidential election and hope that sense prevails. That, roughly, is the West's strategy to deal with Russia. It has come at a high price. Russia has...

"Our stance against torture and degrading treatment is clear: it is always wrong and it is always illegal; there are no ifs and there are no buts."Javier Solana, EU foreign...

A highly controversial agreement to build a multibillion-euro gas pipeline between Russia and Germany will not dampen the need for further routes to be developed, the...