The commission found no evidence that opposition structures (OF, VPN, student committees) prepared a provocation designed to cause a massacre or fabricate a student’s death. The opposition primarily ...

The Velvet Revolution in 1989 brought an end to decades of Soviet-dominated communist rule in the former Czechoslovakia, ...

This year, protests were called in both countries – in Prague against Babis and in Bratislava and other Slovak cities against ...

Thousands of Czechs and Slovaks on Monday celebrated the anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution, which ended decades of communist rule in the former Czechoslovakia, with protests that warned ...

On November 17, Czechia remembers the Velvet Revolution of 1989 and the Nazi persecution of students 50 years before that. Ceremonies were held throughout the day.

What looked like a sudden uprising was the culmination of civic defiance, underground networks and a widening gap between the rulers and the ruled.

The 36th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution will be marked today by many actions, assemblies, commemorations, concerts, and ...

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