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On the Wrong Side of the Fence: The Finale of the 25 Year Anniversary

          Berlin is usually full of tourists and as opposed to places like Barcelona or Amsterdam, there is not really a particular time of the year which one could call ‘the tourist season’ or at least not that I know of any such thing. So the tourists are there but the longer you live here, the more they blend in with the rest of the population and become…

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Celebrating 25 Years of Unity and Rights and Freedom

When I was a little girl, still living in Belarus, I did not know about the Berlin Wall. I did not know about the cold war or about the fact that one country was once divided into two, just by a concrete wall. But today, as I am now somewhat of a grown up and have several years of history class behind me, I can’t really believe that I am yet again…

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