Vaclav Havel News
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One of the U.K.’s major airports should be renamed to honor former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who died four days ago, two lawmakers from her Conservative Party suggested.
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Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who served time in Czechoslovakia’s communist prisons before leading a revolution that ushered democracy into central Europe and hoisted him into the Czech presidency, has died. He was 75.
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Vaclav Klaus, who refused to fly the European Union’s flag above his Prague castle residence, leaves as Czech president today after a decade of criticizing the 27- nation bloc.
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Korean Air Lines Co. pledged to hold its stake in Ceske Aerolinie AS for five years, while CSA’s majority owner will refrain from making “significant” changes in its strategy, according to terms of this week’s sale.
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Korean Air Lines Co., South Korea’s biggest carrier, was the sole bidder for a stake in Czech state airline Ceske Aerolinie AS.
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Karel Schwarzenberg, a bow-tied 75- year-old prince whose estate includes castles and forests, is channeling the Sex Pistols in a bid to be Czech president.
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One year after the death of former Czech President Vaclav Havel, a global icon in fighting dictatorship, his persecutors’ political heirs have national power in their sight for the first time since 1989.
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Thousands of people followed Czech ex-President Vaclav Havel’s casket as it was transported through the narrow streets of Prague, opening three days of official mourning ahead of a state funeral on Dec. 23.
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Czech former President Vaclav Havel, whose resistance to totalitarian regimes helped topple Communism in 1989, was remembered at a mass attended by world leaders, including David Cameron, Nicolas Sarkozy and Bill and Hillary Clinton.
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Former Prime Minister Milos Zeman was elected president of the Czech Republic in the country’s first direct vote following a campaign slamming the government’s austerity measures in the midst of a recession.
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