Thousands marched through the Czech capital Tuesday in commemoration of a student protest 20 years ago that grew into the human tidal wave sweeping away the communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia. Today, the Czech Republic and Slovakia are European Union and NATO members. While the world recession ...

US singers Joan Baez, Lou Reed and Suzanne Vega performed Saturday at a concert in Prague paying homage to former Czech president Vaclav Havel, a hero of the Velvet Revolution 20 years ago. "These artists, passionate about freedom, were in solidarity with us at the darkest time," Havel, 73, said at the start of the concert at an old church ...

Key dates in the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe in 1989: _ June 4: Poland holds first partially free elections in four decades; Solidarity-led opposition wins all but one freely contested seat in parliament. _ August: Tens of thousands of East Germans swamp West German diplomatic missions ...

Otomar Krejca, a renowned theater director in the Czech Republic, has died at the age of 87. Prague's National Theater says Krejca died Friday in Prague. The cause of death was not given. Krejca was born on Nov. 23, 1921 in Skrysov u Pelhrimova, Czechoslovakia. He joined the National ...