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 ...

Forty-seven years ago, Soviet troops and their Warsaw Pact allies invaded Czechoslovakia to bring an end to that country's brief period of political liberalization, called the Prague Spring. About 500 ...

It was in Prague in the ’20s that Franz Kafka wrote his chilling allegories of men condemned to lingering deaths by a malevolent bureaucracy. “People didn’t understand him 25 years ago,” mused a Czech ...

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 ...

Thirty years on since the breakup of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic enjoy a harmonious relationship 31 December marked the 30th anniversary of the break-up of Czechoslovakia; one of ...

The overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych’s government and Russia’s occupation and annexation of Crimea have been reported through an increasingly murky fog of propaganda. This has included rival accusations ...

Before beginning this article, a disclaimer must be made. The video accompanying this piece is one of the best highlight films of the 1934 final available on YouTube. However, there are several still ...

This is the fifth in a series about the 16 triumphant teams in the European Championship before the 17th edition is played in Germany next year. So far, we’ve looked at the USSR in 1960, Spain in 1964 ...

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 ...