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 ...

Unknown musings of the founding father of an independent Czechoslovakia, its first president, Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, are believed to have been unearthed. An envelope, whose existence was unknown to ...

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 ...

How did Czechoslovakia, a new country on the world map in 1918, approach the question of women’s right? The Slovak Spectator asked Zuzana Maďarová of the non-governmental organisation Aspekt. Zuzana ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...