MAXWELL EMPIRE FALLS; MILLIONS MISSING
The mystery surrounding the death at sea of Robert Maxwell deepened Thursday with the revelation that the British press magnate had looted his employees` pension funds and that at least...
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STREETS` NAMES DOCUMENT POLITICAL CHANGES ALONG ROAD
''The street Tamina was born on was called Schwerin. That was during the war, and Prague was occupied by the Germans.'' So wrote Czech novelist Milan Kundera of one of...
ROMANIAN REVOLT: AN UNTOLD STORY
The 1989 revolution was the most important event in Romania in the last 50 years, but to this day there is no generally believed version of it. The state-owned television...
E. EUROPE REDEFINING PLACE ON MAP AS WELL AS IN HISTORY
Is Eastern Europe still Eastern Europe? If not, what is it? During the Cold War, this was an easy one. Western Europe lay west of the Iron Curtain. The Soviet...
NATIONALISM FEEDS SLOVAKIA`S DESIRE
In a leafy park in downtown Bratislava, the graffiti reads, ''Death to gypsies! Long live Tiso!'' Tiso was Josef Tiso, the fascist priest who led the puppet government of an...
MILITARY `SURPLUS` STORES BOOM
This is the way the Cold War ends: Americans buy Soviet army medals; Russians buy U.S. Army fatigues. In the street markets of Warsaw and other East European cities, Soviet...
COMMUNISM`S OLD DIGS GET NEW BRAND OF TENANTS ACROSS EUROPE
There have been some address changes in East Europe in the last 18 months. Buildings that once housed Communist Parties have some very different tenants these days. The Polish Stock...
WHY NATO IS HOLDING OFF ON MEMBERSHIP FOR EAST EUROPE
Like the European Community, NATO is holding its former foes in East Europe at arm`s length. In this case, though, the East Europeans have learned to live with it. The...
SOME STILL FEEL THE CHILL OF KGB`S SHADOW
The psychological burden that the past has laid on Ukraine emerged vividly last week in a debate between teenagers and a 35-year-old woman at the base of Lenin`s statue. ''Our...
Aug. 28, 1991: Russia recognizes Ukrainian independence
This story originally ran in the Chicago Tribune on Aug. 29, 1991. KIEV, USSR — The government of the Russian republic recognized the right of Ukraine to independence Wednesday, speeding up...