PRAGUE -- Viewed from Prague, the images of Russian tanks streaming into Georgia earlier this month carried inevitable echoes. Many commentators and politicians around the world have made comparisions ...

A QUARTER of a century ago, as international attention focused on the bloody conflict in the Balkans, another multinational European state quietly split in two. The “Velvet Divorce”, the name given to ...

Up the winding road to Hradčany Castle, which broods above Prague’s Baroque towers and its wide, grey Vltava River, came a steady stream of Tatra limousines. As they had many times before, they bore ...

Into the inner courtyard of Prague’s Hradcany Castle one morning last week rumbled a long cavalcade of black Tatra limousines. From them stepped Party First Secretary Alexander Dubcek, the ministers ...

NUREMBERG, Dec. 5, 1945 (UP) - American prosecutors introduced evidence today that Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering browbeat Dr. Emil Hacha into surrendering Czechoslovakia in March 1939, by ...

Thirty years on since the breakup of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic enjoy a harmonious relationship 31 December marked the 30th anniversary of the break-up of Czechoslovakia; one of ...

The first person to find the body lying in the stone courtyard of the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry at 6:15 a.m. on March 10, 1948, was a janitor. Clothed in pajamas, the corpse was cold, lying face ...

This is the fifth in a series about the 16 triumphant teams in the European Championship before the 17th edition is played in Germany next year. So far, we’ve looked at the USSR in 1960, Spain in 1964 ...