Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The weather in Prague is relatively pleasant during the spring season, which technically starts in March and ends in June. During ...

Of all the 1968 movements, the Czechoslovak Prague Spring was perhaps the only one that was not a generational conflict: Sons and daughters were united with their parents in wanting a more democratic ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Prague comes into its own in spring. As biting winds give way to pleasant breezes from the south, the Czech capital throws off its ...

Fifty years after the Prague Spring was put down by Soviet soldiers, the goEast Film Festival in Wiesbaden focuses on the historical events, along with 16 films from Central and Eastern Europe in the ...

In a powerful performance conducted by Daniele Gatti, Verdi’s Requiem soars with optimistic energy to close the Prague Spring ...

Under the glowering gaze of the National Museum at the top of Wenceslas Square stands a forty-year-old Russian tank. Its fuel tanks are strapped vulnerably to its rear and its gun aims at nothing in ...

Could Soviet-style communism be reconciled with the dignity and freedom of the individual? In 1968, the question was put to the test when the leader of Czechoslovakia’s Communist Party, Alexander ...

Music illuminates Prague. It also acts as a kind of stethoscope to the city's soul. Prague Spring, founded in 1946, was originally a celebration, an expression of liberation at the end of the Second ...

Established in 1947, the Prague Spring International Music Competition is held annually in two instrumental categories. This ...

Ondrej Neff was a 23-year-old journalist at Czechoslovak Radio at the time of the Soviet-led invasion of his country on 21 August 1968. Ondrej Neff lost his prominent radio job after the invasion ...

Since the Soviet invasion of August 1968 and the Velvet Revolution of 1989, the older generation of Czech writers has been well served by translations. Jaroslav Hasek's picaresque novel, The Good ...

The annual Prague Spring Festival is one of the biggest musical events in Central Europe. This year's festival is gearing up right now. We'll go back to a performance from last year's series of ...