Václav Havel’s quote, “The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself”, is a timeless ...

PRAGUE — Czechs are bidding an emotional farewell to Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who led their peaceful 1989 revolution that brought to an end decades of Communist rule. Havel's wife Dagmar ...

Visiting Czech Senate Speaker Miloš Vystrčil and former president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) today reflected on the legacy of human ...

Czech Senate President Milos Vystrcil, who is in Taiwan for a four-day visit, and former president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) ...

Václav Havel’s quote “Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well” is a powerful lesson on meaning, courage, ...

On 18 December, 2021, Vaclav Havel’s 10th death anniversary has been commemorated world over including India. In New Delhi a Vaclav Havel soiree was jointly organised, and very appropriately so, by ...

Reactions to the death of Vaclav Havel, who led Czechoslovakia's 1989 anti-communist "Velvet Revolution": "A great fighter for the freedom of nations and for democracy has died . . . His outstanding ...

In an era when moral clarity in foreign policy seems increasingly difficult to come by, we have an opportunity this week to recognize the efforts of a man – and his nation – that stood clearly and ...

Friends of former Czech President Vaclav Havel plan to mark his 80th birthday on October 5th with several memorial events. Havel, who died in 2011, went from being a jailed playwright to ...

While in prison in 1981, he befriended the dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel. Later, he became a conservative voice in Rome. By Clay Risen His longtime career in the Foreign Service ...

Unlike Vaclav Klaus, Havel’s conception of democracy was ‘based on a strong civil society and morality’ [Reuters] Prague, Czech Republic – Long before Czechoslovakia’s communist regime collapsed in ...