Czechoslovakia owes its unfortunate history to its lot as a main stage for the great conflicts of the 20th century. Born a democracy at the end of the First World War, it suffocated through decades of ...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic, May 28 (UPI) -- The Czech Republic's Supreme Court has upheld a jail sentence given to a former communist official over the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Czech ...

The Czech Republic marked the anniversary of the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia on Thursday with memorial events in Prague and across the country. At a ceremony outside the Czech Radio ...

Vera Caslavska, Czechoslovakia's most decorated Olympic athlete and a vocal critic of communism who was persecuted for her dissent, has died at the age of 74. The head of the Czech Olympic Committee ...