PRAGUE -- Viewed from Prague, the images of Russian tanks streaming into Georgia earlier this month carried inevitable echoes. Many commentators and politicians around the world have made comparisions ...

After the representatives of the Czechoslovak government returned from negotiations in Moscow at the end of August 1968, following the Prague Spring—a period of political liberalisation and reform in ...

Up the winding road to Hradčany Castle, which broods above Prague’s Baroque towers and its wide, grey Vltava River, came a steady stream of Tatra limousines. As they had many times before, they bore ...

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Czechoslovakia entered 1935 as Central Europe’s last functioning democracy, but the pressure around it was building fast. Border disputes, minority resentment, and Nazi-backed politics began to tear ...

Thirty years on since the breakup of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic enjoy a harmonious relationship 31 December marked the 30th anniversary of the break-up of Czechoslovakia; one of ...

On August 21, 1968, Soviet troops and their Warsaw Pact allies invaded Czechoslovakia to bring an end to that country's brief period of political liberalization, called the Prague Spring. About ...

It is often taken for granted that all European nations involved in the early Cold War, save Germany, fell naturally onto one side of the Iron Curtain or the other. Yet Czechoslovakia was not ...

The voices of the witnesses are quiet. Their heads are projected on screens behind a chain-link fence in complete darkness at the site of a former monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Their topic ...