Seventy years ago,Moscow and Berlin signed the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which secretly divided Europe into Soviet and German spheres of influence.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Berlin was born in Russia. But he captured the feeling,the people and the customs of his new country.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

She recorded songbooks of the music of Cole Porter, Irving Berlin,Duke Ellington, Jerome Kern,Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

And in April of nineteen eighty-six, a bomb exploded at a West Berlin discotheque popular with American troops.

VOA: special.2011.02.26

The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and the Eiffel Tower in Paris are also expected to go dark.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

He IS American music." Most American children grow up hearing and singing some of Irving Berlin's songs.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

Days earlier, Truman had met in Potsdam, Germany, near Berlin, with the British and Soviet leaders, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin, to plan the peace.

VOA: special.2011.07.28

Berlin agreed to write and produce a musical show called "This is the Army."

VOA: special.2009.12.20

Transparency International, based in Berlin, works to fight corruption and increase public awareness.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

The show had reports from London, Berlin,Paris and Rome.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

But when the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union dissolved in 1989, the western alliance's main reason for being disappeared.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

"We owe it to ourselves and to those who yearn for the same freedoms that are enjoyed and even taken for granted in Berlin today.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

The heads of the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank were in Berlin Wednesday for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel and other senior officials.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

And,the Berlin Wall kept Eastern Europeans on the Soviet side of the Iron Curtain.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

They were inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall a week earlier, which had divided East and West Germany for more than a quarter of a century.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

Similar demonstrations all were also staged in Berlin and Paris Saturday where marchers wanted to get their message across to their leaders before they head off to the summit.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

"So,by the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, it fell not under a barrage of artillery, but under hammers and bulldozers wielded by people who had lost faith in the ideas,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Clinton is having bilateral meetings on the margins of the Berlin Wall events and is expected to discuss Iran's nuclear program, among other issues, in a meeting on Monday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

And,in 1989,the Berlin Wall collapsed.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25