Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian troops to separatist areas of Eastern Ukraine as euphemistic “peacekeepers,” with somewhere between 150,000 and 190,000 Russian troops ranged along the ...

This episode revisits the Prague Spring and the events that culminated in the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. Reformers led by Alexander Dubček sought to liberalize the political system ...

Editor’s Note: Daniel Kumermann is a former foreign affairs journalist, Czech Ambassador to Israel (1999-2003), Consul General in Los Angeles (2006-2011), and signatory of the Charter 77 human rights ...

Here is a recap of the shock intervention that reined in the Soviet satellite state, its aspirations for democracy warded off for another 20 years. "At 11:00 pm, Soviet, Polish, East German, Bulgarian ...

PRAGUE — 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, ...

PRAGUE (AP) — Cold War documents released this week show that Soviet leaders were so worried about the 1968 Prague Spring reform movement in Czechoslovakia that they sent experienced KGB spies to help ...

On the 23rd of August, 1968, the Russian dissident Natalia Gorbanevskaya, together with nine other members of the opposition, was in Moscow’s Red Square to protest against the invasion of ...

As Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine intensifies, Western markets hold up, but Russia’s financial system takes a beating. Meanwhile, Europe's reliance on Russia for energy complicates the West's ...

The 1968 Prague Spring that brought "Socialism with a human face" to Czechoslovakia was personified by the smiling Alexander Dubcek... The 1968 Prague Spring that brought "Socialism with a human face" ...