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 ...

The weather in Prague is relatively pleasant during the spring season, which technically starts in March and ends in June. During spring, travelers may experience varying temperatures as summer ...

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 ...

Prague's Matejska pout, the oldest and largest fair in the Czech Republic, will take place for the 430th time in 2025. Originally held to mark the Feast of St. Matthias, for many it heralds the ...

Forty years ago, Warsaw Pact countries invaded Czechoslovakia and crushed the democratization process known as the Prague Spring. Today, Prague is a primary stop on the grand European tour. Throughout ...

What would later become known as the Prague Spring began with the ascension, on this day in 1968, of the reformist Alexander Dubček to the post of first secretary of the Communist Party of ...

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia — Donald D. Hanson, of Jacksonville, was in this city on the fateful day 22 years ago when Soviet tanks crushed the brief Prague Spring. So was Vojtech A. Chotovinsky, now of ...