Vaclav Havel, the unassuming playwright dissident who helped spearhead the Velvet Revolution of 1989 that overthrew Communism in Czechoslovakia, died on December 18. He became the country’s president ...

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Around a quarter million Czechs rallied against the prime minister and president on Saturday over concerns the pair are chipping away at democracy in the deeply divided nation ...

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Thousands of Czechs called for Prime Minister Andrej Babis to resign on Saturday, in protests coinciding with the anniversary of the "Velvet Revolution" that toppled Communism in ...

Thirty-five years after the Velvet Revolution threw off Soviet-backed communist rule in Czechoslovakia, we visited some of the sites in Prague where monuments once stood and propaganda posters loomed ...

People participate in a demonstration against a proposed government coalition, on the 36th anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist government in then Czechoslovakia, in ...

On the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, Slovaks find themselves once again facing state-sponsored propaganda, police violence, attacks on minorities and human rights, and a government in thrall ...

The twentieth anniversary of the Berlin Wall's dismantling triggered reflection on its lessons for Europe and the left. Now the twentieth anniversary of Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution is prompting ...

Thousands rallied in Prague on Monday, the anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution that toppled communism in former Czechoslovakia, against Czech billionaire Andrej Babis, who is in talks to form ...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia(AP) — Tens of thousands of people in Slovakia on Monday protested against populist Prime Minister Robert Fico and his pro-Russian stance, taking advantage of the anniversary of ...

Rock music and stirring speeches by former dissidents echoed through the streets of Prague on Wednesday as Czechs marked the 15th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that ended communist rule. But ...

So it was with the Czech Philharmonic and their then-new Russian-born Principal Conductor Semyon Bychkov last autumn, when they performed Smetana’s Má vlast (My Homeland) before a packed audience in ...