Nation marks 30 years since Vaclav Havel and fellow dissidents swept into power

Oyub Titiev convicted on drugs charge he says is fabricated due to campaign work

Engrossing and beguiling, the Czech capital offers visitors a glimpse of its rich and glorious past

Pat Leahy: politics has been described as a combination of high purpose and low cunning

Billionaire election winner Babis and pro-Russian president Zeman alarm many Czechs

Tens of thousands expected to march amid rising European populism and xenophobia

All peoples, and that includes the people of Catalonia; have the right of self-determination.

Chinese writer’s gift was an ability to think – and to speak – for himself

Chinese dissident’s last words to his wife Liu Xia were ‘Live on well’

Vaclav Havel provided a stirring example of leadership in challenging times, whether picking generals or asking citizens to ‘live in the truth’

Americans need to learn lessons from Europe’s communist past

Attack on centre that helps refugees reflects vitriol in nation’s debate on refugee crisis

Mary Robinson pushed the office ‘as far as the wall and peeped over, but didn’t cross it’

Tapestry unveiled depicting island of Manhattan as yellow submarine piloted by Lennon

Nicholas Winton: May 19th, 1909 – July 1st, 2015

All the latest deals and travel new from Fionn Davenport, including a hotel guide to Prague, Watergate hotel reinvented and a 60-secod guide to Orlando, Florida.

Big rallies in Hungary and Czech Republic bemoan leaders’ soft stance on Russia

The Berlin Wall’s fall was a death knell for a Soviet bloc in which the first fissures had appeared elsewhere

Conversations turn Beckettian when this festival of all things tragicomic doesn’t turn out as planned. Could it be any other way?