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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Alexander Dubček introduced sweeping political and cultural reforms in Czechoslovakia, loosening censorship and seeking greater freedoms under Communist rule. Soviet leaders saw those changes as ...

The crackdown on the Prague uprising on 21 August 1968 marked the beginning of the end for Soviet-type regimes, but the importance of this event is nowadays neglected. Jean-Michel de Waele, political ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

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If you’re a sakura - or cherry blossom - lover, you’ll likely have Japan and Washington DC on your travel bucket lists. But did you know there are countless places across Europe with equally ...

Ota Sik, a survivor of Nazi concentration camps who became the architect of economic liberalization during Czechoslovakia’s ill-fated 1968 “Prague Spring,” but later was critical of “shock” ...