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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

vaclav havel, theatre, euweek, literature, prague spring, revolution, politics

ANALYSIS vaclav havel : Photos: Prague Spring, forty years on

Photos: Prague Spring, forty years on

On 21 August Prague commemorated forty years of it’s famous democratic ‘spring’, which ended revolt in the capital this past century. The spontaneous protest caught the world by surprise, before it was reprimanded by the Soviet regime. Images

by Boris Svartzman @ // 22/08/08

vaclav havel, photography, communism, photogallery, central and eastern europe, photo, violence

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Were you born in 1989? - Generation 89

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 Declaration "Generation 89" to EU representatives in Brussels!

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