People participate in a demonstration against a proposed government coalition, on the 36th anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist government in then Czechoslovakia, in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico, center, shakes hands with Netherland's Prime Minister Dick Schoof, right, during a round ...

Photographer Brian Harris was in Prague for The Independent, documenting the unfolding events on camera – the vast crowds surging through Wenceslas Square, the dramatic speeches, the student ...

More than 200,000 Czechs flooded central Prague on Saturday to mark 30 years since the Velvet Revolution toppled communism in then-Czechoslovakia, with protesters demanding that billionaire Prime ...

Crowds in the Czech Republic and Slovakia took to the streets on Monday night to protest their governments on the anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution, which ended decades of Soviet-dominated ...

Vaclav Havel, the unassuming playwright dissident who helped spearhead the Velvet Revolution of 1989 that overthrew Communism in Czechoslovakia, died on December 18. He became the country’s president ...

The New York Times did a nice retrospective yesterday on Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution on its 20th anniversary. I was 15 years old when the Berlin Wall fell along with all the other Eastern ...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Tens of thousands of people in Slovakia on Monday protested against populist Prime Minister Robert Fico and his pro-Russian stance, taking advantage of the anniversary of ...