In this March 2011 interview with CNN's Jim Clancy, Vaclav Havel compares Arab unrest and eastern European revolution.
The news of Vaclav Havel's death Sunday morning caught me by surprise, but it was hardly surprising.
Former Czech President Vaclav Havel, one of the leading anti-Communist dissidents of the 1970s and 1980s, has died at the age of 75, his spokeswoman announced Sunday.
International leaders expressed their condolences Sunday after the death of former Czech President Vaclav Havel, one of the leading anti-Communist dissidents of the 1970s and 1980s.
CNN's Richard Allen Greene reports on the legacy of the Czech statesman, dissident and playwright who died at 75.
Vaclav Havel died Sunday in the Czech Republic he helped build. A few months ago, I wrote an appreciation as a way of marking his 75th birthday. The sentiments, of course, still stand and I'm glad I didn't wait until his death to write it. We have lost a hero of our times, a friend of freedom, who lived his life with integrity and sent forward ripples of hope into the world. He will be missed and remembered.
How do you see the popular uprising sweeping the Middle East and North Africa?
Protesters in North Africa and the Middle East face tougher challenges than their east European equivalents did two decades ago, Czech human rights activist Vaclav Havel has told CNN.
He is a lean, bespectacled figure: he is the very image of the literature professor that he is -- but the mild demeanor is deceiving.
CNN's Jaime FlorCruz reports on those who have lost freedom for criticizing Beijing's government.
Former Czech President Vaclav Havel showed up at the Chinese Embassy in Prague Wednesday to protest the imprisonment of a Chinese dissident, the official Czech News Agency reported.
CNN's Phil Black reports on how the broken union between Slovakia and the Czech Republic has turned into a friendship.
When I was a teenager and in my early twenties, I always discussed with my most trusted friends what it might be like to live in a free world. We were locked behind the Iron Curtain and none of us believed we would live to see the fall of the communist dictatorship. My father used to say: "Every dictatorship will fall one day because it is inhuman, it is not natural. But communism is here for a long haul. We are not going to see it in our life times." Thank God, we were all wrong.
Fireworks and rock 'n' roll echoed across central Prague on Tuesday as thousands of marchers commemorated the 20th anniversary of the "Velvet Revolution" that toppled Communist rule.
CNN's Fionnuala Sweeney gets a glimpse into the shadowy underworld of the former Czech secret police.
The Czech playwright-turned-president-turned -playwright turns a jaundiced eye on his 'Velvet Revolution'
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The scene: a nightclub in Prague -- not an uncommon sight in a country on the brink of joining the European Union.
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