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Eastern Europe Is Uneasy Over U.S. Ties With Russia - Editorial - NYTimes »
Posted by: gamahuche 4 months, 1 week ago in News
BERLIN: The deep concern among America' s Eastern European allies over improved relations between Russia and the United States spilled into the open on Thursday ...
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Something was “in the air” ahead of Velvet Revolution, Havel tells world’s media - Radio Prague »
Posted by: gamahuche 1 month, 1 week ago in News
Václav Havel, who led Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution, discussed
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1989 and all that: Plastic People of the Universe and the Velvet Revolution | The Observer »
Posted by: gamahuche 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Banned and jailed under Czech communism, the Plastic People of the Universe helped to bring the regime down in 1989. Inspired by Frank Zappa and ...
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Havel stages concert to mark 1989 events | Prague Monitor »
Posted by: gamahuche 1 week, 1 day ago in News
Songs by American singer Suzanne Vega opened a concert staged by former president Vaclav Havel to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution on ...
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Do The Warhol: The Velvet (Underground) Revolution - breitbart.com »
Posted by: gamahuche 3 months, 4 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
" I adore America and these are some comments on it. My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash ...
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Obama's Speech to the Public in Prague - ?eskéNoviny.cz »
Posted by: gamahuche 7 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Obama calls for reduction and elimination of nuclear weapons and action to combat climate change.
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At the same time he links the cancellation of the ...Read (431) | Share | Discuss (8) | Read Full Story at ceskenoviny.cz
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Czech ex-President Havel released from hospital: The Associated Press »
Posted by: gamahuche 9 months, 4 weeks ago in News
PRAGUE, Czech Republic: Former Czech President Vaclav Havel was released from a Prague hospital on Thursday to recuperate from a serious illness that followed throat ...
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Freed from Power, Havel Mocks It - TIME »
Posted by: gamahuche 6 months, 1 week ago in Arts & Entertainment
Vaclav Havel insists that his first play in 20 years, which opened to enthusiastic reviews at a small experimental theater in downtown Prague on May ...
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Reject Russia’s Energy ‘Blackmail’, Vaclav Havel Urges Europe - Bloomberg.com »
Posted by: gamahuche 4 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright and the first Czechoslovak President after the fall of Communism has said said Central Europe should reject Russian energy supplies ...
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Havel Laments as ‘Consumer Palaces’ Occupy Nation - Bloomberg.com »
Posted by: gamahuche 5 months ago in Political News
For Vaclav Havel , the leader of the 1989 “Velvet Revolution” that peacefully overthrew Communism in what became the Czech Republic, the optimism of 20 years ...
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Armed action against Iran would be a 'catastrophe' »
Posted by: gamahuche 11 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
These were the words of Karel Schwarzenberg, currently Czech Foreign Minister, and a strong supporter of Israel, during a 30 hour visit to Israel and ...
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Dalai Lama calls for dialogue, compassion in Prague »
Posted by: gamahuche 11 months, 4 weeks ago in Religion
The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, 73, Nobel Peace Prize winner, called for compassion and support for dialogue in a public lecture on compassion ...
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Havel embarrassed at Czech Communists' comeback - press - ?eskéNoviny.cz »
Posted by: gamahuche 1 year ago in Political News
Prague - Vaclav Havel, former post-1989 Czechoslovak and Czech president, is not pleased to see the Czech Communists partly coming to power after the recent regional ...
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"sorry I'm late hon, but the President of the Czech Republic and I were having a beer..." »
Posted by: gamahuche 1 year, 1 month ago in Health & Fitness
"This is a most unusual beer," said ambassador Kolar as he took a pull from his imperial pint. "We believe that beer is more than ...
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Nicolas Sarkozy attacks Czech refusal to fly EU flag »
Posted by: gamahuche 11 months, 1 week ago in Political News
The French president sided with federalist Euro-MPs who are engaged in a bitter feud with Vaclav Klaus, the Czech president and a Eurosceptic.
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