Prague Spring

Obituary: Vaclav Havel, master of peace

The dissident, thespian and president, who was a symbol of change in the 1989 velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia, died on 18 December at the age of 75 after a serious illness. Homage to a European master of peace, as a three-day mourning period officially begins on 21 December

by marzia modesto @ // 21/12/11

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Petr Uhl: ‘I prefer to call it the Czechoslovak spring’

He stood on the barricades of Paris and Prague in 1968 and later produced the Charter 77 civic initiative. The man who once smoked cigarettes in prison with former president Václav Havel looks back over his sixty-six years, but also to Europe and the future

by Katharina Kloss @ // 21/06/08

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Prague(matic) spring

2008. Time for Prague to do a spring clean, to free itself of the dusty control mechanisms of former times. Beer ‘exportmeister’, freshblooded cinema, the freedom of speech and a ‘Go West’ philosophy - the Czechs are pragmatic. Are appearances deceptive?

• Read the special edition Prague(matic) spring
• Prague ‘Hyde Park’: dead speakers society
• Radar station for US anti-missile defence on Czech soil?
• Czech cinema in the 'Hollywood of the east'
• Photos: Prague Spring, forty years on
• Drinking trademark Budweiser beer in Bohemia