After the representatives of the Czechoslovak government returned from negotiations in Moscow at the end of August 1968, following the Prague Spring—a period of political liberalisation and reform in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During the Cold War, Czechoslovakia stood apart from some of its Warsaw Pact partners by developing its own small arms. This included the Sa vz. 23, a “no-frills” submachine gun that was ahead of its ...

PRAGUE – If Scotland says yes to independence in Thursday's referendum, there might be a lesson to learn from the amicable split of Czechoslovakia on Jan. 1, 1993. Known as a "velvet divorce," the ...

On Nov. 17, 1989, student protesters filled the streets of Prague. It was eight days after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the same tide of freedom that had swept Berlin seemed to have come to the ...

A 1981 Czechoslovak news report shows politicians and cheering crowds welcoming Afghanistan's communist president, Babrak Karmal, during his visit to Prague and Bratislava. Karmal, a former ambassador ...

FILE - President of Czechoslovakia Tomas Masaryk, left, and Prime Minister Antonin Svehla, right, in Prague, Nov. 1927. (AP Photo, File) (Uncredited, 1927 AP) PRAGUE – Unknown musings of the founding ...

KLEINSCHWEINBARTH, Austria — Hildegard Nuss was younger than 10 when she was forced to leave her home, but she says time hasn’t diminished the empty feeling inside her. She was among 3 million ethnic ...