Boris Nemtsov and Anna Politkovskaya ‘deserve to be remembered’, says city mayor

Steinmeier warns on efforts to ‘offset the dead of Dresden with the dead of Auschwitz’

TV review: Belsen’s ageing survivors are not phlegmatic or philosophical about what happened

Defending with endless vigour the core EU values against those would challenge them

Hussein Yazdanpanah says tragedy of Kurds is ‘we have been divided among ourselves’

Czech mayor is facing death threats and compared to ‘Nazi official’ over proposal

Hungary’s fence-building PM Viktor Orban to lead celebration of historic dash for freedom

In a new introduction to All Quiet, historian Norman Stone argues the brutality of Erich Maria Remarque’s novel changed perceptions about the war

Analysis: As Conservative Party contenders vie for May’s crown precious time is ticking away

Premier’s communist-era ‘agent’ past and president’s pro-Russian views stir anger

Pro-Kremlin president will not make a speech in memory of the Prague Spring

Murfi keeps travelling in The Man in Woman’s Shoes and women in the second World War

Dublin-based woman has a remarkable connection to Russia’s October Revolution

Timothy Snyder traces our terrifying new totalitarianism to blurring of fact and fiction

The auteur’s war film is stunning, but its heroic approach reflects an industry still uncomfortable with the bloody reality of the second World War

Ireland forward says being serenaded with a chant devoted to him is ‘pretty cool’

US president uses speech in Poland to appeal for Western unity in the face of ‘dire threats’

Beijing Letter: Exhibitions, operas and films celebrate Mao Zedong’s crowning glory

Critics at 1956 memorial event jeer ‘Viktator’ who depicts Brussels as threat to freedom

President says China should carry forth the spirit and advance in ‘a new long march’