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A Trabant convertible, a vintage East German car, drives past the Reichstag, the seat of Germany's lower house of parliament, on a sunny spring day in Berlin March 16, 2012. Thomas Peter/Reuters
Tourists look at the mural by Russian artist Dmitry Vrubel of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing his East German counterpart Erich Honecker, painted on a segment of East Side Gallery, the largest remaining part of the former Berlin Wall, in Berlin October 30, 2009. A 1,300 metres (4,265 ft) stretch of wall, the world's longest open-air art gallery, was decorated by 118 artists from 21 countries in 1990, but has since been damaged by the weather, exhaust fumes, vandals, and souvenir-seeking tourists. Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters
View in the lobby of the "Ostel", the former East German hostel, in the German capital Berlin, June, 2007. Time, however, appears to have stopped here sometime before 1989, when communism was still entrenched in all four capitals. The Ostel offers a renewed whiff of life in the former German Democratic Republic, welcoming travelers with original furnishings and portraits of communist leaders adorning the walls. Fritz Reiss/AP
An employee makes an adjustment to a model of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin at the Museum of the Soviet Union in Moscow February 24, 2013. The museum contains exhibits from all aspects of life in the Soviet period that were "Made in the USSR", according to museum officials. Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters
A visitor is trying to pass light barriers at the new spy museum in Oberhausen, Germany, Monday, April 30, 2012. The exhibition "Top Secret" explains the work of secret services and shows unique original details from the Russian KGB, the CIA and the east German STASI during the cold war. Martin Meissner/AP
Former victim of East Germany's secret police, Carl-Wolfgang Holzapfel, sits in a cell as he begins a week-long re-enactment of his imprisonment in the former Hohenschoenhausen Stasi prison in Berlin October, 2009. Holzapfel returned to the prison as an art project and his every movement during the seven-days of voluntary incarceration will be broadcast on the internet. He was locked up in the 1960s after protesting against political persecution by the East German regime. Thomas Peter/Reuters
A woman holds a poster illustrating the late Soviet leader Josef Stalin before a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of his death in Red Square in central Moscow March 5, 2013. Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters
A family enjoys a Sunday at a garden on one of the city allotments in Warsaw, Poland, July, 2012. Warsaw is home to dozens of allotment gardens carved out by the country's previous rulers so that workers could relax in their spare time by tending flowers and shrubs on their personal plots. This relic of a more sedate past is colliding with a modern reality: the appetite of the market for space to build new apartment blocks, offices and retail parks. Peter Andrews/Reuters
People look at a monument dedicated to Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov Lenin in Havana's Lenin Park, August 2011. The park was opened in 1972 to mark the 103rd birth anniversary of the leader of the October Revolution and founder of the Soviet Communist Party and the USSR. The statue was sculpted in marble by Lev Efimovich Kerbel, a renowned sculptor of Soviet realist works. Desmond Boylan/Reuters
School children, wearing red neckerchiefs, a symbol of the Young Pioneer Organization, salute during a ceremony to mark the beginning of a new academic year at Local School number 12 in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, September 2012. It is the only school with a classical pioneer organization in Krasnoyarsk. In 1922, early pro-communist movements which appeared in Russia after the Bolshevik revolution were transformed into the Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union. Ilya Naymushin/Reuters
A man rides a bicycle in front of a huge placard with an image of the Order of the Patriotic War during a rehearsal for the Victory Day parade in central Minsk May 2, 2012. Belarus celebrates the Soviet Union's 1945 victory over Nazi Germany on May 9. Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters
Students wave flags of the Communist Party of China (CPC) as they pose for a photo with an emblem of the CPC at a primary school in Zaozhuang, Shandong province, June 2011. China celebrated the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party that year. China Daily/Reuters
A man walks past a Communist Party of India (Marxist) party symbol in Kolkata April 18, 2011. Rupak De Chowdhur/Reuters
A group of enthusiasts dressed in Soviet and Nazi Germany uniforms take part in a historical World War II battle reconstruction in St. Petersburg, May 6, 2009. Russia traditionally celebrates the victory over Nazi troops. Alexander Demianchuk/Reuters
In Pictures: Derby Day devotees, Kenyan style
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/16
In Pictures: Dazzle like Beckham
In Pictures: Weather extremes 2013
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/15
In Pictures: Duchess Kate's royal baby bump
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/14
In Pictures: Keffiyeh is rebel chic
From the ill-fitting wigs to wads of cash and a 'recruitment letter,' the whole affair seemed more like a spy scene from a Judd Apatow comedy than a brooding John le Carré novel.
Russia expelled a US diplomat on Tuesday after Kremlin security services charged that they had caught him trying to recruit a Russian agent. Russian officials said they were shocked, shocked that such (alleged) espionage was still occurring in the post-Cold War period, and that the diplomat in question, Ryan Fogle, was an incompetent spy to boot.
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