The weather in Prague is relatively pleasant during the spring season, which technically starts in March and ends in June. During spring, travelers may experience varying temperatures as summer ...

On the 23rd of August, 1968, the Russian dissident Natalia Gorbanevskaya, together with nine other members of the opposition, was in Moscow’s Red Square to protest against the invasion of ...

Under the glowering gaze of the National Museum at the top of Wenceslas Square stands a forty-year-old Russian tank. Its fuel tanks are strapped vulnerably to its rear and its gun aims at nothing in ...

Daniel is formerly a research fellow for European affairs in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation. Tuesday marked 50 years since the Soviet Union—along with troops from ...

PRAGUE — Could Soviet-style communism be reconciled with the dignity and freedom of the individual? In 1968, the question was put to the test when the leader of Czechoslovakia’s Communist Party, ...

To the Editor: As we sadly expected, a major tragic human event in history was ignored by the major media outlets, including The Post-Standard. Aug. 21 marked the 44th anniversary of the Communist, ...

Thirty-five years ago this week, soldiers from five Warsaw Pact countries invaded Czechoslovakia, ending one of the most ambitious attempts at political reform to emerge in communist Europe. Around ...

What would later become known as the Prague Spring began with the ascension, on this day in 1968, of the reformist Alexander Dubček to the post of first secretary of the Communist Party of ...

Forty years ago this week, the greatest English-language poet of the 20 th century sat down and wrote an eight-line verse: W.H. Auden did not give this telling piece of brilliant doggerel a grandiose ...

At least one Czech critic was outraged at the lack of solemnity, interpreted as disrespect to Smetana as founding father of Czech music (pictured right on the roundel of the organ in the Obecní dům) – ...

Tuesday marked 50 years since the Soviet Union—along with troops from the Warsaw Pact nations—on Aug. 21, 1968, invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the period of political liberalization that became known ...