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2 Million Volga Germans Pose Settlement Issue for Bonn, Moscow
; ...that an ethnic German territory or republic can again be set...to the prewar Volga German autonomous republic, established by...Union's Russian republic - although separated...it by two other republics - and houses the...wishes of the Volga Germans, who are ...
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Angry Russians Confront Yeltsin; Visit to Volga City Highlights Rising Prices, Shops' Bare Shelves
; ...barren food store in Saratov, a Volga River city of more than 900,000...Ukraine and other newly independent republics. Meanwhile, the commander of the...same veto power to the other three republics where nuclear weapons are based...social disorder. Cities in the Volga basin also have had shortages ...
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U.S.S.R.'s Ethnic Germans Pose Challenge;Kohl Fears Their Mass Immigration; Gorbachev Is Wary of Giving Them Autonomy
; ...frightened both Germany and the Soviet...autonomous Volga German Republic - dissolved...whether the Volga Republic will be restored...the ethnic German issue, said...for a new Volga republic, a democratically...of Soviet Germans must present...
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Red Army Radio Aims at Germans; Network Seeks to Win Sympathy for Stranded Ex-Soviet Soldiers
; ...outlined in the deal that made German reunification possible, Radio Volga has been retooled to recognize...Norenko is director of the new German-language service of Radio Volga. Radio Volga is perhaps the world's most self-effaci...liaison in West Berlin), Radio Volga tries to ...
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Special Report of Germany: Emotions rule - not reason: Few people seem to have an instinctive understanding of what goes into the make- up of the modern day German
; GERMANS, more than any other...easy enough to define German culture, but since the Middle Ages, the German has been a nomad in...France. But what is a German? Does a Rhinelander...anything in common with Volga Germans, spread over Russia...the old Democratic Republic, people who ...
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200-Year-Old Ties Pull Ethnic Germans Back; Return of Vast Numbers From Former USSR Strains Bonn's Preferential Immigration Policy
; ...dialect that is very difficult for Germans to understand since it derives from the "low German" spoken by the pioneers who streamed...Empress Catherine the Great. The German-born monarch sought farmers and...privileges. For nearly 200 years, the German emigres thrived in their adopted...even ...
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To the fatherland: Kazakhstan.(ethnic German Kazakhs emigrating to Germany in droves)(Brief Article)
; ...bleak future. Understandably, ethnic Germans in Kazakhstan and in other former Soviet republics have rushed to take up the German government's offer to return to...fatherland. Two-thirds of the 1m Germans who once lived in Kazakhstan have...three years. The majority of Kazakh Germans are ...
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A New German Empire;Not by blood and iron, but from commerce and human contact.
; ...small village of Friedland, where Germany's past and present intersects with its future. In a West German meadow on the outskirts of Friedland...1945, more than 3 million ethnic German refugees have passed through the...Forty-five years ago a system of German camps took away the freedom, ...
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Honecker Remains True to Course Deserted by Germans
; ...only images Germans had seen of...curtains of a black Volga limousine. Last...the reunited Germany to give his...The Federal Republic has no right...state of the German Democratic Republic {East Germany} for acts which...but Russian republic President Boris...has told ...
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SOVIETS TO GIVE ETHNIC GERMANS, TATARS TRADITIONAL HOMELANDS
; ...government has decided to give ethnic Germans and Crimean Tatars who were expelled...Tatars of the Crimea and the ethnic Germans who lived on the Volga River were forcibly resettled during...strategic areas. The Tatars and the Germans, among others, have long been agitating...already been reported ...
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