After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, for a while it seemed like border fences and barriers were a thing of the past in Europe. Many on the continent hoped for a new era of integration and ...

"On my GPS, Eastern Europe wasn't mapped," he says. "You'd go from Austria to Hungary and the map would disappear. You knew the border was coming, but you couldn't see it. Often I'd ask an old ...

The crisis in Ukraine began in November 2013 when pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych's government abandoned a deal with the European Union ... troops gathering in border areas adjacent to ...