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’

Nothing feeds this encounter more than both teams clamouring for place at the top table

Orban makes final appeal to voters ahead of Sunday’s poll amid international criticism

Anthony Foley’s side face the very bleak reality of a season outside of Europe’s elite

Military’s default ‘deterrance’ position on nukes more to do with prestige than defence

Authorities block off wooded area as gold fever lures scores with metal detectors

The conflict-hit country is keen to disprove Russian claims of rampant anti-Semitism

War-torn state breaks with Russia and joins West in marking end of second World War

Against the backdrop of Ukraine’s conflict, it is clear the divide between east and west lives on

Decades after they fell, dead soldiers are still being found and given burials

Visitors to Berlin are drawn to the place of the dictator’s last stand, but officials are torn

With closed borders and a railway blockade, future looks tough for the country’s children

Former prisoners of death camp recall horrors and appeal for past to be learnt from

Anthony Foley’s side scored 10 late points to keep their Champions Cup hopes alive

Gerry Thornley: As European success has become more elusive, some attendance fall off was on cards

The Berlin Wall’s fall was a death knell for a Soviet bloc in which the first fissures had appeared elsewhere

Volunteer spirit has spawned would-be partisan cells

The biggest derby in world rugby may be running out of steam and we will be all the poorer if it does

Defeating Toulon in their home from home just about the biggest task in European rugby

It will be interesting to see if ERC’s replacement body can also double their competition turnovers in just five years

Munster hooker geared up for semi-final in south of France