Thousands of Czechs and Slovaks on Monday celebrated the anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution, which ended decades of ...

Thousands rallied in Prague on Monday, the anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution that toppled communism in former ...

November 17, 1989 marked the beginning of a peaceful street protest in then Czechoslovakia that eventually led to the end of Communism across Central and Eastern Europe. Thirty-three years later, the ...

Thirty-five years after the Velvet Revolution threw off Soviet-backed communist rule in Czechoslovakia, we visited some of the sites in Prague where monuments once stood and propaganda posters loomed ...

PRAGUE, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Czechs on Tuesday marked more than three decades since the Velvet Revolution peacefully toppled communist rule with scaled-back gatherings, virtual candle lighting and ...

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This week, 35 years ago, the Czech government buckled under the mounting pressure of its people. In mid-November, student protestors had ignited a revolutionary fervour on the cold streets of Prague ...

FILE - Music journalist Jiri Cerny speaks during a press conference to the 57th edition of the Golden Prague International Television Festival, in Prague, Aug. 25, 2020. Cerny, a leading Czech music ...

PRAGUE (AP) — Jiri Cerny, a legendary Czech music critic who introduced Western music to generations of listeners behind the Iron Curtain and became one of the voices of the 1989 anti-communist Velvet ...