When Czech political dissident, playwright and poet Václav Havel wrote The Power of the Powerless in October 1978, he was not ...

Overlooked amid the Greenland uproar in Davos came an extraordinary statement from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Not only did the leader of America’s northern neighbor cozy up to Com ...

On 18 December, 2021, Vaclav Havel’s 10th death anniversary has been commemorated world over including India. In New Delhi a Vaclav Havel soiree was jointly organised, and very appropriately so, by ...

Reactions to the death of Vaclav Havel, who led Czechoslovakia's 1989 anti-communist "Velvet Revolution": "A great fighter for the freedom of nations and for democracy has died . . . His outstanding ...

PRAGUE — Czechs are bidding an emotional farewell to Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who led their peaceful 1989 revolution that brought to an end decades of Communist rule. Havel's wife Dagmar ...

Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright-turned-president and the leading figure in the peaceful revolution that toppled communism in Czechoslovakia, has died. He was 75. His office said Havel died ...

Czechs joined their leaders and foreign politicians Sunday in paying tribute to Vaclav Havel, who led the 1989 Velvet Revolution that peacefully toppled communism in the former Czechoslovakia. A black ...

Outstanding Play (Drama Desk Awards) for A Private View, Distinguished Plays (Obie Awards) for The Increased Difficulty of Concentration and Best Foreign Play (Obie Awards) for The Memorandum. What ...

Former Czech President Vaclav Havel during a newspaper interview in Prague, Czech Republic, on Jan. 18, 2011. Photo by Photo by Lidove noviny/Ondrej Nemec/isifa/Getty Images. The man and his setting ...

Unlike Vaclav Klaus, Havel’s conception of democracy was ‘based on a strong civil society and morality’ [Reuters] Prague, Czech Republic – Long before Czechoslovakia’s communist regime collapsed in ...

While in prison in 1981, he befriended the dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel. Later, he became a conservative voice in Rome. By Clay Risen His longtime career in the Foreign Service ...