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Are you a citizen of Bulgaria? Meet people from your generation! Join the "Generation 89" project! You have the chance to participate in one of the simultaneous meetings in Brusels, Bucharest, Prague or Warsaw, and to present...
The events of 1989 commemorated 20 years on this week brought back many emotional memories. I was 19 when it happened, still living at home, only not in Czechoslovakia, but in Canada. Like thousands of others of Czech descent,...
NEW YORK — It was early June 1989. Vaclav Havel had been released from jail only days before, yet he was full of what now seems an almost prophetic certainty. Thousands of his countrymen had written letters petitioning for his...
In Slovakia the events of1989 are remembered as the "Gentle Revolution" marked by non-violent demonstrations. But the changes also led to the break up of Czechoslovakia - into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
On his 10-day trip to Asia and in his 10th month in office, Barack Obama is beginning to encounter limits on his ambition to change the world. Even as he bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia in April and to the emperor of Japan...
ČTK A series of meetings seeking to newly define the Czech identity culminated in Brno's Husa na provázku theatre Thursday, with former Czech president Václav Havel taking part in the debate. The Cabinet Havel project called...
The Czech Republic this week kicked off celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. Back then, it was Czechoslovakian students who took the lead. Nowadays, the country's youth are ambivalent about...
The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes is under pressure this week after a petition was circulated calling for the dismissal of the Institute’s director, Pavel Žáček. Such petitions are not uncommon in the Czech...
Prague, Nov 19 (CTK) - Pavel Zacek, head of the Czech Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (USTR), views the petition demanding his dismissal as its authors' attempt to force the USTR into censorship, told...
A little-known theatre company took centre-stage in the Czechoslovak revolution of 1989. Marie Sucha and Petr Eckl were based at the Theatre Without a Balustrade "Marie remembers it better than me but, apparently, I came from...
