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 ...

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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 ...

PRAGUE -- In downtown Prague, dozens of children run after a motorized banana on wheels. The race is entitled "What we'd be running after if it [the Velvet Revolution] never happened." It's a humorous ...

Václav Bartuška is Czechia’s ambassador to the United Kingdom. In the past he has been a 1989 student leader, a journalist and the government's envoy for energy securituy.

Armenia’s popular new government is undertaking an ambitious economic overhaul. The early reviews are good. Next month marks the 30th anniversary of Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution, when Czechs and ...

Next Monday, Slovakia will mark the 36th anniversary of the revolutionary November ’89 – the moment when what is now Slovakia, along with the Czech Republic, gained political and social freedom. While ...

Twenty years ago, Eastern Europe went through a series of revolutions, beginning with the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. Images of students jingling keys and singing in Wenceslas Square, ...

The 20th anniversary of the 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe continue to serve as inspiration for a peaceful transition from totalitarianism to democracy, but some are disappointed by ...

The biggest anti-government protest in Prague since the 1989 pro-democratic Velvet Revolution is underway as Czechs urge Prime Minister Andrej Babis to resign. Stoppard Play Uses Rock Music to Stage a ...